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Portia: Media

fictional character, “The Merchant of Venice”

Videos

Watch a scene between Shylock and Portia from Shakespeare's “The Merchant of Venice”
Mordecai (Shylock) hands his bond to Portia at court in the 1923 film Der Kaufmann...
Video: Courtesy of the British Film Institute

Images

Noble heiress
Portia by John Everett Millais (1886), oil on canvas.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1906 (06.1328), www.metmuseum.org
Courtroom drama
Portia and Shylock, from Shakespeare's “The Merchant of Venice”, IV, i (c....
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund (B1975.5.1)
Portia with Nerissa
Actress Judi Dench (left) as Portia, with Polly James as Nerissa, in a stage production...
© PA Images/Getty Images
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