Act 3 Scene 1 (second half)

In this section of the scene, Shylock rages about the money and jewels Jessica has taken and Tubal reports the loss of another
of Antonio’s boats. Fill in the boxes beside the dialogue.

SHYLOCK
What is Shylock now How now, Tubal, what news from Genoa? Hast thou found
more concerned my daughter?
about?
_________________ TUBAL
_________________ I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot find her
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_________________ SHYLOCK
Why there, there, there, there! A diamond gone cost me two
thousand ducats in Frankfurt! The curse never fell upon our
nation till now, I never felt it till now. Two thousand ducats in
What is precious to
that, and other precious, precious jewels! I would my daughter
Shylock? Why does
were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear: would she were
this make the hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin. No news of them,
audience hate him? why, so? And I know not what’s spent in the search. Why thou, loss
_________________ upon loss - the thief gone with so much, and so much to find the What is else is
_________________ thief, and no satisfaction, no revenge, nor no ill luck stirring but Shylock angry about?
_________________ what lights o' my shoulders, no sighs but o' my breathing, no tears _________________
_________________ but o' my shedding! _________________
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TUBAL _________________
Yes, other men have ill luck too. Antonio, as I heard in _________________
Genoa -

SHYLOCK
What, what, what? Ill luck, ill luck?
What does the dash
indicate Shylock has What device is being
TUBAL
done? What does that used? What might it
- Hath an argosy cast away coming from Tripolis.
suggest about the suggest about
emotion he’s feeling? Shylock’s emotions?
_____________________ SHYLOCK
I thank God, I thank God. Is it true, is it true? _________________
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_____________________ TUBAL
_____________________ I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wreck.
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_____________________ SHYLOCK
_____________________ I thank thee, good Tubal: good news, good news! Ha, ha
_____________________ Heard in Genoa.
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_____________________ TUBAL
Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, one night four score
Ducats.
 What does this
emotive language
suggest about
SHYLOCK Shylock’s feelings?
That stick’st a dagger in me; I shall never see my gold _________________
again. Four score ducats at a sitting! Four score ducats! _________________
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TUBAL _________________
There came divers of Antonio’s creditors in my company to _________________
Venice that swear he cannot choose but break. _________________
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SHYLOCK _________________
I am very glad of it. I’ll plague him. I’ll torture him. I am _________________
Look at the bold lines. glad of it. _________________
How does Shakespeare _________________
make us feel some TUBAL
sympathy for Shylock? One of them showed me a ring that he had of your daughter for
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a monkey.
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_____________________ SHYLOCK
_____________________ Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal. It was my turquoise,
_____________________ I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor. I would not have
_____________________ given it for a wilderness of monkeys.
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_____________________ TUBAL
_____________________ But Antonio is certainly undone.
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SHYLOCK
Nay, that’s true, that very true. Go, Tubal, fee me an officer,
bespeak him a fortnight before. I will have the heart of him if he
forfeit, for were he out of Venice I can make what merchandise I
Why else does Shylock will. Go, Tubal, and meet me at our synagogue, go, good Tubal,
want Antonio dead? at our synagogue, Tubal.
_____________________ Why does Shylock decide
_____________________ to take the pound of flesh
_____________________ from Antonio’s heart?
Symbolically, why does
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Shakespeare have Tubal and _____________________
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Shylock agree to meet at _____________________
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‘our synagogue’?? _____________________
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