Gyaan Adab
Hosted
Between The Lines
ABOUT THE EVENT
On a Wednesday evening, the usual suspects of the Between the Lines group gathered at Gyaan Adab with much fervour. Mrs. Mohini Khot had taken the reins this time around. She was presenting The Merchant of Venice, a classic that can never get old. Not only did she give a great presentation effortlessly, there was also a dramatised reading of certain parts of the play by John Samson and Shekhar Ramiah.
“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”. – (Act III, scene I).”
― The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice named Antonio must default on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock. It is believed to have been written between 1596 and 1599.
Bassanio, a young Venetian of noble rank, wishes to woo the beautiful and wealthy heiress Portia of Belmont. Having squandered his estate, he needs 3,000 ducats to subsidise his expenditures as a suitor. Bassanio approaches his friend Antonio, a wealthy merchant of Venice who has previously and repeatedly bailed him out. Antonio agrees, but since he is cash-poor – his ships and merchandise are busy at sea to Tripolis, the Indies, Mexico and England – he promises to cover a bond if Bassanio can find a lender, so Bassanio turns to the Jewish moneylender Shylock and names Antonio as the loan’s guarantor.
“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
― The Merchant of Venice
Date: Wednesday, 8th August
Time: 5.30 PM
Entry free
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