Portia and the Prince of Morocco.(The Merchant of Venice)(Critical Essay)

From: Shakespeare Studies | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Ungerer, Gustav | Copyright information

IT IS NOT UNUSUAL for critics to view Shakespeare's Prince of Morocco in The Merchant of Venice merely as an exotic figure, creating, in the words of Eldred Jones, a "from-the-ends-of-the-earth atmosphere." He may indeed even enrich Portia's wooing pageant as a kind of Marlovian leftover, penetrating deep into the green world of her countryside retreat. (1) But the sequence of Morocco's ill-fated courtship can also lead us into significant vistas of the cultural world which created...

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