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Comedies of William Shakespeare: Character Asalyses

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Lippman, Laura
Affiliation: Department Of English, Harvard University

Character Asalyses

Antonio, the merchant of the title, is a rich and highly respected
citizen in Venice, possessed of many friends. Yet, by nature, Antonio is a
melancholy man, a silent and reflective gentleman who values friendship more
than anything in the world. His is a gentle and inward melancholy which
persists equally when fortune smiles or frowns upon him. He believes that life
is a stage on which each man plays his part; reality itself begins in heaven.
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