...patient indicates rolechange by changing chairs. Tabori applied a similar technique in rehearsals to / would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear: Improvisations on Shakespeare's Shi/lock (1978), a production that engaged with the memory of the Holocaust....

...rebellion. Instead, he displaces love with wealth and grief with fury in a grotesque conflation: "I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! Would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!" (III. i. 78-80). This curse is too...

...now; I never felt it till now - two thousand ducats in that, and other 65 precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! Would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin! No news of them? Why, so! And I know...

...the law. She elopes with a gentile, taking some of Shylock's wealth with her. In response he says, 1 would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear!' (Merchant III 1 83-4). Guided by a law of retribution, he follows not a father's heart but a path that...

...time directly experienced. And in his pain and rage he attempts to turn the curse upon his daughter: I would my daughter were dead at my foot and the jewels in her ear! I would she were hearsed at my foot and the ducats in her coffin! No news of them? Why, so. And I know...

...till now; I never felt it till now. Two thousand ducats in that and other precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter were dead at my foot and the jewels in her ear! Would she were hearsed9 at my 70 foot and the ducats in her coffin! No news of them? [TUBALS/g«S 'No'.]...

...his money than about his daughter, for he abdicates from all human feeling in his wish for revenge: I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear. would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin. Once more the rhetorical structure...

...now; I never felt it till now. Two thousand ducats in that; and other precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin! No news of them? well, so — and...

...much indifference, but for the perception that Shylock values his daughter far beneath his wealth. I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! — would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin! ?,..'• •-• i -,,:•'. Nerissa...

...and Kosiek (1988). 3 On Kortner's career as an actor in the Weimar Republic, see Brand (1981). 4 / would my daughter were dead at my foot and the jewels in her ear: Improvisations on Shakespeare's Shy lock. 5 'Antonio ist traurig' ('Antonio is Sad'), 'Bassanio braucht...