...causes of their feelings, judgments, and behavior? Knowing Why In sooth, I know not why I am so sad, But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What...stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn; ... I have much ado to know myself. — Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act I, scene I (1596)...

...the focus on Antonio's feelings, and the difficulty of articulating and understanding them: In sooth I know not why I am so sad, It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, foond it, or came by it, What stuffe tis made of, whereof it is borne, I am to learne: their embrace...

...twenty- first -century edition. In the speech that opens the play in Ql , An thon io8 says In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you: But how 1 caught it, found it, or came hy it. What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is horne, 1 am to leame....

...sweet love remembered such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. Sonnet 29 And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself. Antonio — MV Li He knows me as the blind man knows the cuckoo, By the bad voice. Portia — MV Vi...

...frivolous people, they're also a litde sad. In the opening lines of the play, Antonio says, In sooth, I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me; you say it wearies you; (Ii1-2) and he tells Gratiano, I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano — A stage, where every...

...feeling of any kind except when he talks with passion about his treatment as a Jew. Antonio In sooth, I know not why I am so sad: It wearies me; you say it wearies you; Although the play is named after him, Antonio plays a fairly small part in the play. He seems a rather...

...Corte di Giustizia, Carceriere, Servi e altri LI Enter Antonio, Salerio, and Solatilo ANTONIO In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say...sadness makes of me That I have much ado to know myself. SALERIO Your mind is tossing on the ocean, There where your argosies with portly sail, Like signers...

...ship's timbers 34 Enrobe dress 42 bottom ship Enter ANTONIO, SM i KID and SOIANIO ANTONIO In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me; you say...stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn; 5 And such a want-wit sadness makes of me That I have much ado to know myself. SALERIO Your mind is...

...first lines of The Merchant of Venice seem designed to arouse the curiosity of playgoers: In sooth, I know not why I am so sad; It wearies me, you say...'tis made of, whereof it is born, / I am to learn — Why is Antonio sad? This would seem to be a major question in the play for at least three reasons....

...ergründen. Die ersten Verse des Textes, die an Salerio und Solanio gerichtet sind, lauten: In sooth I know not why I am so sad, It wearies me, you say...how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff ris made of, whereof it is born, lamtolearn (I. i. 1-5)20. Der prominente Ort, an dem sich diese Zeilen...