The weeping philosopher makes an appearance in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

The story of Barlaam and Josaphat was popular in the Middle Ages, appearing in such works as the Golden Legend, and a scene there involving three caskets eventually appeared, via Caxton's English translation of a Latin version, in Shakespeare's " Merchant of Venice ".

Mitchell played the male characters: Nick Bottom in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Launcelot Gobbo in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, among others.

Oxfordian William Farina refers to Shakespeare's apparent knowledge of the Jewish ghetto, Venetian architecture and laws in the plot of The Merchant of Venice, especially the city's " notorious Alien Statute ".

The second part ( concerning the caskets, known to English speakers from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice ) originates from about 800 AD from Joannes Damascensus's account of Barlaam and Josaphat and was written in Greek.

William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, probably written in the late 16th century, features Shylock, a Venetian Jew and his family.

* William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is first performed and his play The Merchant of Venice is published.

* Belmont ( Merchant of Venice ), a fictional Italian town in Shakespeare's play

He cited to this effect William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice published in 1600 ( Act IV, sc.

Some of their works featured Moorish characters, such as Peele's The Battle of Alcazar and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus and Othello, which featured a Moorish Othello as its title character.

She adopted the name Portia de Rossi at the age of 15, stating in 2005 that she had intended to reinvent herself, using the given name of Portia, a character from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, and an Italian last name.

Together with Rudolph Schildkraut he performed in Reinhardt's staging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, now emphasizing his melodious speech, which despite first damning reviews finally made him a star.

* Shakespeare's Comedy of The Merchant of Venice, Leach, Shewell & Sanborn ( Boston, MA ), 1894.

" Fagerbakke has received critical acclaim as a thespian by the Screen Actors Guild and Juilliard School of Performing Arts for his roles as Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, and Torvald in Ibsen's A Doll's House.

She played all the principal women's roles of the time, notably Shakespeare's Portia ( Merchant of Venice ) and Beatrice ( Much Ado about Nothing ), and Lady Teazle in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal.

After the show closed, portions of the work were re-used in productions of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Otway's Venice Preserved.

David Carradine said, " My dad told me that he saw a production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice when he was eleven years old and decided right then what he wanted to do with his life ".

His appearance as Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1741, mesmerized London audiences.

" In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Portia exclaims " Let music sound while he doth make his choice ; Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end, Fading in music.

* Porcia is also briefly mentioned in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in regards to the character of her namesake, Portia:

Wesker's play The Merchant ( a play which he also called " Shylock ") tells the plot of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice from Shylock's point of view.

Some of their works featured Moorish characters, such as Peele's The Battle of Alcazar and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus and Othello, which featured a Moorish Othello as its title character.

Almost half of Shakespeare's plays are set in Italy, many of them containing details of Italian laws, customs, and culture which Oxfordians believe could only have been obtained by personal experiences in Italy, and especially in Venice.

Opening a new theatre in Parma, his Zaira ( 1829 ) was a failure at the Teatro Ducale, but Venice welcomed I Capuleti e i Montecchi, which was based on the same Italian source as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Having found success with Richard III, Garrick moved onto a number of other roles including Tate's adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear and Pierre in Otway's Venice Preserv'd as well as comic roles such as Bayes in Buckingham's The Rehearsal ; a total of 18 roles in all in just the first six months of his acting career.

He is, therefore, quite as grateful as Antonio when Portia, as in Shakespeare's play, shows the legal way out.

The Quality of Mercy is a phrase taken from a speech by Portia in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice.

The moon is named after Portia, the heroine of William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice.

He is, therefore, quite as grateful as Antonio when Portia, as in Shakespeare's play, shows the legal way out.

The two women have collaborated on plays including Electra ( RSC ); The Good Person of Sezuan ( 1989, National Theatre ); Hedda Gabler ( 1991, The Abbey Theatre and BBC2 ); the controversial Richard II, with Shaw in the title role, also at the National Theatre ( 1995 ) and televised by BBC2 ; Footfalls, whose radical staging so enraged the Beckett estate that the production was pulled during its run ; The PowerBook, at the National Theatre, a dramatisation of Jeanette Winterson's novel ; Medea ( 2000 – 2001, Queen's Theatre and Broadway ); and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, in which Shaw played the small part of Portia.

* Portia ( Merchant of Venice ), a character in William Shakespeare's play Merchant of Venice

* Portia Catonis, the wife of Roman senator Marcus Junius Brutus and a character in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar

MacLean's wife called the school Portia Law School after the heroine of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

The phrase taken from a speech by Portia in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice.

She playing in the RSC production of Dickens ' Great Expectations in Stratford, and starring as Portia in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice at the Lyceum in Edinburgh.

One was as Portia in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ( play ), the other in a Beethoven piano quartet!

Shakespeare's love interest in the film, " Viola " ( Gwyneth Paltrow ), is the daughter of a wealthy merchant who disguises herself as a boy to become an actor ; while Shakespeare, a financially struggling playwright suffering from writer's block is trying to write Romeo and Juliet.

One of Shakespeare's most forceful female characters, she spurs her husband mercilessly to kill Duncan and urges him to be strong afterward, yet is herself eventually driven to death by the effect of Macbeth's murders on her conscience.

Referring to herself as Titania, Shakespeare's Fairy Queen, Elisabeth expressed her intimate thoughts and desires in a large number of romantic poems, which served as a type of secret diary.

She believed that she had discovered many such messages in the works of William Shakespeare, and convinced herself that Bacon had written many, if not all, of Shakespeare's works.

Garth later invites Kirk and Spock to a dinner where they hear Marta recite Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 which she claims she wrote herself.

At one point, Ben Zion says to her " Shakespeare's Ophelia drowns herself.

Like all of Shakespeare's later plays, it has many characters who appear to be lost forever but somehow get found: Imogen's lost husband, who reappears as a prisoner with the Roman army, the two lost princes, who have been learning manly arts in the Welsh mountains, and Imogen herself, who appears to be poisoned in the middle of the play, but the poison is unsuccessful and she recovers.