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PORTIA — The Merchant of Venice · wrote

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Character · The Merchant of Venice · William Shakespeare

PORTIA

1 monologue indexed — plays persuasion.

DramaticPersuasion20s–30sIntermediate

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PORTIA

The Merchant of Venice · William Shakespeare

The quality of mercy is not strain’d,

1:10DramaticIntermediate

What PORTIA wants

To talk him out of the knife by making mercy sound like the more powerful choice, not the weaker one.She has asked Shylock to show mercy. He has asked why he should. This is the answer.

Scenes PORTIA appears in

Act 1, Scene 115 lines
Act 2, Scene 13 lines
Act 2, Scene 74 lines
Act 2, Scene 98 lines
Act 3, Scene 214 lines
Act 3, Scene 46 lines
Act 4, Scene 140 lines
Act 4, Scene 23 lines
Act 5, Scene 124 lines

In The Merchant of Venice

MOROCCO1
SHYLOCK1

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