The role of women in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice

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…ring and make him feel silly. This play to me did not seem like a regular Shakespeare play. I did not enjoy it as much as the other plays I have read, but I did enjoy getting a good laugh at the men with Portia and Nerissa at the end. I think that the heroes of this play are not the males, but the females and that will make for an interesting play any day.