![]() ![]() ‘I stay here on my bond,’ Shylock says, meaning he will not diverge in any way from his literal claim on what is due to him. The connection between Shylock and Cordelia rests on their common use of the single word ‘bond’. He is not asking for an answer, he is asking for a show. It is in Cordelia’s speech responding to her father’s question about which of his daughters loves him most – well, to be precise, which of his daughters he is to say loves him most. ![]() There are touches of Shylock in many places outside The Merchant of Venice, and indeed outside Shakespeare altogether, but this one is of unusual interest. ‘T here is a touch of Shylock in this,’ John Kerrigan says of a moment in King Lear. ![]()
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