Question 2.
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Bassanio
Were you the doctor, and I knew you not?
Gratiano
Were you the clerk?
Antonio
Sweet lady, you have given me life and living;
For here I read for certain that my ships
Are safely come to road.
Portia
How now, Lorenzo!
My clerk hath some good comforts too for you.
(i)
Where does this scene take place? What had Portia directed Antonio to give
to Bassanio just moments before the above words were spoken?
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The scene takes place in Belmont, near Portia's house. Portia directed Antonio to give the ring to Bassanio just before these words were spoken. (ii) The letter has come from Padua, from Bellario. Bassanio learns that Portia was the lawyer and Nerissa was her clerk.
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