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“The Merchant of Veniceis a play about contrasted attitudes towards wealth and the life- styles dictated by each, but it is also a comedy … of love and friendship and the rivalry betweenthem.”

“Belmont is really the better self of Venice: a world of clarity, order, and materialism transfigured, presided over by a lady in whom the virtues characteristic of the Christians in the comedy manifest themselves in their most complete and realizedform.”