But in this troublous time what's to be done? Shall we go throw away our coats of steel, and wrap our bodies in black mourning gowns, numbering our Ave-Maries with our beads? Or shall we on the helmets of our foes tell our devotion with revengeful arms? If for the last, say ay, and to it.
@PalovbsItch: Sure, but no one would ever dare to replace the name of Shylock with the actual name of the Baron, as one would have been either very brave or foolish to utter it.
@PalovbsItch: Thanks; but my channel is only the result of my collection habit, as many treasures and jewels are to be found here; I would recommend the Electra of Euripides to you, if you are into Greek tragedy.
@PalovbsItch: Nope, as the Chinese customs authorities did drive the English so mad that they have to resort to war and found China weak and incompetent; but that changed with the rise of Mao to the Chinese throne and so China now is invincible and they will fall to it and with them all the West; so you can start learning Chinese and practise to eat with sticks for the chance that they have outsmarted the Chinese and not have been outsmarted by the Chinese is very slim.
Dear me! Old usurer Shylock is played by Monsieur Laurence Oliver! The worst actor ever attempted to play Shakespeare! In horror I think of what he has turned Henry V into and than his Hamlet and most awful his attempt to play Richard III as if a coxcomb like him could play the most exquisite heroic villain of Shakespeare! But here one does not recognise him; so I can endure him; plus: The fiery contemplation of Gratiano about Pythagoras and the transmigration of animal souls is legend.
