 | Daniel Kornstein - 2005 - 296 ページ
...eyes?" speech, during which he makes even clearer his use of legal process to work revenge: And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? If we are like...it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. (3.1.61-68) Just in case we somehow miss the point, Shakespeare has Shylock repeat it before the start... | |
 | Omer Bartov - 2005 - 396 ページ
...These are the lines most often quoted. Less often quoted is the final part of the soliloquy: "And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like...it shall go hard but I will better the instruction" (The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 1). 25. Insdorf, Indelible Shadows, 285-86. 26. See http://www.paramountclassic... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 2005 - 472 ページ
...antitheses with the logical fulcrum 'If here, then there' tying the two parts still more closely together: If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you...sufferance be by Christian example? Why revenge. The equality having been established (and the structure has placed 'humility' with particular ironic force)... | |
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I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter... 
