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List the characters and describe them:

1. The duke of venice
Strong upholder of venetian law.

2. The prince of Morocco
a suitor to Portia

3. The prince of Arragon
a suitor to Portia

4. Bassanio
an Italian lord, suitor to Portia

5. Antonio
a merchant of Venice

6. Solanio
gentlemen of Venice, and companions with Bassanio

7. Gratiano
gentlemen of Venice, and companions with Bassanio

8. Lorenzo
gentlemen of Venice, and companions with Bassanio

9. Shylock
the rich Jew, and father of Jessica

10. Tubal
a Jew, Shylock's friend

11. Portia
the rich Italian lady

12. Nerissa
Portia's waiting-gentlewoman

13. Jessica
daughter to Shylock

14. Gobbo
an old man, father to Lancelot

15. Lancelot Gobbo
the clown

16. Stephano
a messenger

17. Salerio
a messenger from Venice

18. Leonardo
one of Bassanio's servants

19. Balthazar
member of Portia's household

20. Servingman
member of Portia's household

21. Messenger
member of Portia's household

What other books has the author written?


Comedies

- All's Well That Ends Well ‡
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Love's Labour's Lost
- Measure for Measure ‡
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre *†
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest *
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Two Noble Kinsmen *†
- The Winter's Tale *

Poems

- Shakespeare's sonnets
- Venus and Adonis
- The Rape of Lucrece
- The Passionate Pilgrim[nb 5]
- The Phoenix and the Turtle
- A Lover's Complaint

Histories

- King John
- Richard II
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1 †
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Richard III
- Henry VIII †

Tragedies

- Romeo and Juliet
- Coriolanus
- Titus Andronicus †
- Timon of Athens †
- Julius Caesar
- Macbeth †
- Hamlet
- Troilus and Cressida ‡
- King Lear
- Othello
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Cymbeline *
- Poems
- Shakespeare's sonnets
- Venus and Adonis
- The Rape of Lucrece
- The Passionate Pilgrim[nb 5]
- The Phoenix and the Turtle
- A Lover's Complaint

Lost plays

- Love's Labour's Won
- The History of Cardenio †

Apocrypha

- Arden of Faversham
- The Birth of Merlin
- Edward III
- Locrine
- The London Prodigal
- The Puritan
- The Second Maiden's Tragedy
- Sir John Oldcastle
- Thomas Lord Cromwell
- A Yorkshire Tragedy
- Sir Thomas More

What is the time period in which the books happens?

1596 - 1598