Question

Who is the speaker? what is the context? what is the "fear of the worst"referred to in this extract

Answer 1

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Portia's description of six of her suitors in act 1, scene 2 provides comic relief for the tragicomedy The Merchant of Venice. ... Drolly, Portia says that she suspects that the prince's mother must have "played wrong [had an affair] with a [black]smith" (1.2. 42), implying that she was a mare.