Gratiano Flashcards
Sexual puns/play on words 1
You shall not gauge me by what we do tonight
Sexual puns/play on words 2
I’ll mar the young clerk’s pen
Sexual puns/play on words 3
I’ll fear no other thing/So sore as keeping safe Nerissa’s ring
Comedic 1
Thou art too wild, too rude, too bold of voice
Comedic 2
Let me play the fool
Comedic 3
we’ll play with them the first boy for a thousand ducats
Rude/inconsiderate 1
O learned judge, Mark Jew; a learned Judge
Rude/inconsiderate 2
I would she were in heaven, so she could entreat some power to change this currish Jew
Rude/inconsiderate 3
O, be thou damned, inexcrable dog
conclusion
G likes to highlight the difference between religions in a nasty way. However, he also provides comedy throughout, which is sometimes percieved as crude.