Word: arragon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scenes are fused into one, which is detrimental to the play's structure, such as it is). When he chooses wrong and has departed, Portia points up the racial slur in her tag-line, "Let all of his complexion choose me so." As for the Prince of Arragon, James Valentine makes him a heavily accented and logorrheicninny; and, when he goes, Portia just can't resist making fun of his Castilian accent. She should talk! Much later, when she is identified by Lorenzo through her voice only, her comment-- "He knows me as the blind man knows the cuckoo...
...dishonest. When the suitors for her hand come to make their choices from among the caskets, they are of course supposed to have free rein, as prescribed in her father's will. But this Portia does everything she can to lead the princes of Morocco and Arragon to a wrong choice and Bassanio to the right one. She cheats on her own father...