These are images from the production of The Merchant of Venice that I directed at the University of Chicago in 2016.
Photo credit: Matthew Gregory Hollis
NERISSA: You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in
the same abundance as your good fortunes are.
ANTONIO: Fie, fie!
They have the wisdom by their wit to lose.
'Hath a dog money? is it possible
A cur can lend three thousand ducats?'
Tell her the process of Antonio's end;
Say how I loved you, speak me fair in death;
And, when the tale is told, bid her be judge
Whether Bassanio had not once a love.
How I shall take her from her father's house,
What gold and jewels she is furnish'd with.
To my heart's hope! Gold; silver; and base lead.
Were in six parts and every part a ducat,
I would not draw them; I would have my bond.
You, merchant, have you any thing to say?
ANTONIO: But little: I am arm'd and well prepared.