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Bassanio serves as a kind of catalyst throughout The Merchant of Venice, provoking much of the play’s action. At the beginning, Bassanio is a good-natured but irresponsible young man who has gotten himself into debt by living beyond his means.
- Bassanio Quotes
Bassanio thinks aloud as he chooses among the boxes,...
- Portia
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- Antonio
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Revision video re-capping the character of Bassanio in 'The Merchant of Venice' exploring key quotations, character analysis and themes related to the character. ...more.
Bassanio, a young Venetian, wants to travel to Belmont to woo the wealthy heiress Portia. He approaches his merchant friend Antonio for 3000 ducats needed to subsidize his travelling expenditures. As all of Antonio's ships and merchandise are tied at sea, Antonio approaches the Jewish moneylender Shylock for a loan.
Anthony Ainley played Bassanio in a 1969 Orson Welles film called The Merchant of Venice, but the footage was lost and the movie was never finished. Bassanio is played by Jeremy Brett in a 1973 TV movie of the play.
With Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins. In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
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- Drama, Romance
- Michael Radford
- 2005-02-18
Bassanio is a character in Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice. Although his role is important he is not as fully drawn a character as one would usually find in Shakespeare’s major characters, unlike Shylock and Portia, on whom the drama focuses, who are.
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Bassanio is the merchant Antonio’s “intimate friend” and the wealthy heiress Portia’s favored suitor. A young nobleman of Venice, Bassanio admits to living beyond his means. This has forced...
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