The Merchant of Venice is a complicated play. Apart from its interweaving storylines, its genre defies classification: in its first quarto of 1600, the play is described as an “excellent history” and ...

“The Clown,” Lancelet Gobbo (Michael Matthys), delivers a speech in this scene of “The Merchant Of Venice” in which he admits that he is considering running away from his master, Shylock. He says ...

The smooth functioning of the body’s joints, the flexibility of the ears and nose, and the shaping of bones are all made possible by the skeletal tissue known as cartilage. 1 According to popular ...