write in short the story of merchant of venice.plz fast.........
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it is a drama by william Shakespeare which consist of number of characters .Bassanio is the friend of Antonio who is in love with Portia the queen .many prince come to propose her but to choose the better life partner for Portia her father arranged her marriage on one condition by keeping three caskets of silver gold and lead .one of them were having Portia's portrait and whosoever will choose the casket with her portrait she will marry him.all the prince failed but Bassanio passed the test and marries her.antonio helped Bassanio to go to Portia and marry her by giving him money which he took from Shylock the villain of the play .he gave him a time period and Antonio failed to pay his dent on the due date then in the court Portia disguised as lawyer took the case of Antonio and saved Antonio from the clutches of Shylock who kept the condition saying that if Antonio is unable to pay the debt he will take one pound of Antonio's flesh but Portia saved him .at the end all the things went well and Bassanio realized that it was Portia who saved his friend