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We tend to think of Shakespeare as the timeless author who did nothing but craft beautiful, hilarious plays for our enjoyment. However, the fact is that he was a human being affected by the attitudes and beliefs of his time, just like the rest of us. Sorry to burst your Shakespearean bubble of bliss!
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- 00:00
The merchant of venice a'la
- 00:06
Shmoop no that one friend you got me in a
- 00:10
bit of a mooch always short a sixpence for his
- 00:13
morning coffee Never pays for his own nether hose and [Friends outside cafe]
- 00:16
wants to split the check after ordering roast peacock I'm
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- 00:21
not really upset about it Bassanio was a great
- 00:23
guy Still he doesn't exactly make good on his debt
- 00:27
So i didn't get too excited when he came up
- 00:29
with a scheme to repay me by marrying some rich
- 00:32
lady named porsche since rich ladies don't really go for [Portia appears]
- 00:35
guys dressed like hobos Hassan eo needed the proper swag
- 00:39
Tp win portia's heart don't we mean which of course
- 00:43
meant more moolah I was a little short myself since
- 00:46
most of my cash was tied up in risky ocean
- 00:48
ventures Lucky for bassanio I'm an awesome friend I
- 00:52
sent him We ask shylock the jewish moneylender for a
- 00:55
loan under my name Not gonna lie There was a [Antonio bear appears]
- 00:59
lot of bad blood between me and shylock I put
- 01:02
the eye in the anti semite Yeah on a good
- 01:05
guy But hey my ship was coming in literally so
- 01:08
i could pay him back New sweat Shylock did have
- 01:11
one Bizarre request though if i couldn't pay him back
- 01:14
he wanted a pound of my flesh Yeah really It [Man holding knife]
- 01:20
didn't help matters when shylocks daughter jessica ran away with
- 01:23
my buddy lorenzo and try locks money I had a [Jessica and Lorenzo running away]
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feeling that my pound of flesh debt was being upgraded
- 01:28
to a metric ton But sania was making good with
- 01:32
porsche though he passed her father's random test Kind of
- 01:35
like the and got the girl I hated to be
- 01:39
a debbie downer at this time but when my wonderful [Man typing on macbook]
- 01:42
money ships were lost at sea well i sent them
- 01:44
a good bye letter Hasani who immediately sailed to the
- 01:47
rescue with a bunch of cash and a ring he
- 01:50
promised porsche never ever to take off But shylock wasn't
- 01:54
in it for the money At this point i was
- 01:56
ready to kiss my butt goodbye when strangely pretty lawyer
- 02:00
walked this new guy baltazar agreed that i owed shylocks [Balthazar appears]
- 02:04
a pound of my flesh Thanks for the help buddy
- 02:07
Then he offered shylock three times the money i owed
- 02:10
him If the money lender would let me keep all
- 02:12
my body parts you know no deal But then things
- 02:16
got interesting baltazar whipped out this awesome last minute save [Balthazar holding paper]
- 02:21
shylock was entitled to his antonio fillet but he couldn't
- 02:25
spill any blood or he'd be breaking the law against
- 02:28
harming christians hurray for one sided legal protection shylocks started back
- 02:33
pedal then and said he'd take the triple fee But
- 02:36
my whiz kid lawyer said shylock wasn't getting anything but
- 02:39
execution for trying to kill a christian However being the
- 02:42
nice guy that i am i let him keep his
- 02:44
money and his life if he agreed to will his
- 02:46
cash to jessica Oh and i made him convert to [Shylock converting to Christian]
- 02:49
my religion julia good thing i'm a gracious winner I
- 02:53
wanted to pay our legal eagle but all baltazar wanted
- 02:56
was hassan eos ring the one he was never ever
- 02:59
supposed to take off weird but you can't argue with
- 03:03
talent Bassanio who's in big trouble when he got home
- 03:06
but porsche had a surprise for him Oh these kids
- 03:08
and their shenanigans So everything was great and my ship
- 03:12
finally came in after all literally talk about happy endings [Man standing on ship]
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