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Brutus is also moving when, unnerved, he parries Portia's pleas in the stormy night before the assassination. (Bramhall has become much more modulated than he was last April when a CRIMSON reviewer criticized him for playing at full intensity throughout...
Chary of overdoing trial scenes, Shakespeare made them as airtight as a Supreme Court brief-perhaps most notably in The Merchant of Venice. At issue is Shylock's 3,000-ducat loan to Antonio, who borrowed the money to help Bassanio sue for Portia's hand. If Antonio fails to repay in three months, says Shylock...
...learned Portia, disguised as a lawyer defending Antonio, offers a remedy in her "quality of mercy" speech-the unfolding principle of equity, which the English courts were more and more applying in Shakespeare's day to ease cases of special hardship. As Shylock stands over Antonio, knife in hand, Portia says...
...woman has greater opportunity in the law than ever before. More women are becoming interested in the law as a profession. Law schools have markedly relaxed their traditional prejudice against women students. And, largely because many women have proved outstanding attorneys and judges, it is slowly becoming easier for Portia to compete with males for jobs...
...University of Chicago Law School, teaching a range of topics from arbitration to an advanced course in "Law in the Behavioral Sciences." Her wise observation is that by acting naturally as a woman, "appealing to the emotional component present in the situation and using different techniques with different individuals," Portia often has an edge over the all-too-logical male...