It is no secret that Shakespeare is interested in the triumph of mercy over judgment. One of Shakespeare’s most famous monologues, delivered by the character of Portia in The Merchant of Venice, is a beautiful meditation on the virtue of mercy: “The quality of mercy is not strained,” Portia says. “It blesseth him that gives…
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