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91Antonio (Merchant of Venice) — Antonio is the title character in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. He is a middle aged bachelor and merchant by trade who has his financial interests tied up in overseas shipments when the play begins. He is loved and revered by all the… …
92William Shakespeare by Edmund Malone — ▪ Primary Source The following document is one of several portraits presented in Edmund Malone s Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Stage (1800). In addition to a general examination of the origins of theatre in… …
93Der alte und der junge König — Directed by Hans Steinhoff Produced by Deka Film GmbH Written by Thea von Harbou, Rolf Lauckner Narrated by 100 min …
94CZECHOSLOVAK LITERATURE — By force of historic circumstances, Jews in the Czech lands – Bohemia and Moravia – before World War I tended on the whole to identify themselves with the culture of the ruling Austrians, while Jews in Slovakia mostly absorbed Hungarian culture.… …
95SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM° — (1564–1616), English playwright and poet. The Merchant of Venice (1596) has been claimed as the play in which Shakespeare found himself in the fullest sense. As with other major comedies of his so called second period, the main emphasis was to… …
96Ahasuerus, King — A transferred name which is used by Jane to Mr Rochester in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Jane asks him to gratify her curiosity about something, now that they are to be Married. Rochester says: ‘I wish that instead of a mere inquiry into,… …
97Sonnet 4 — Sonnet|4 Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty s legacy? Nature s bequest gives nothing, but doth lend, And being frank she lends to those are free: Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse The bounteous largess… …
98Credit — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Credit >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 credit credit trust tick score tally account GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 letter of credit letter of credit circular note Sgm: N 2 duplicate duplicate …
99usuress — noun /ˌjuːʒəˈɹɛs,ˌjuːzjəˈɹɛs/ A female usurer.<ref name= Cham def >The Chambers Dictionary (1998)</ref><ref name= OED def >The Oxford English Dictionary (2007)</ref><ref name= WNav def >“[ …
100usurious — usury UK US /ˈjuːzjʊri/ US / ʒɚI/ noun [U] FORMAL DISAPPROVING ► the lending of money at extremely high interest rates: »The payday loans, exempt from usury laws, carry an annual interest rate of 390%. usurer /ˈjuːzjʊrər/ US / ʒɚə˞/ noun [C] ►… …
