In Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" Shylock is made out to be a bad person or perhaps a criminal. ... He is so fixated with his money he is afraid to leave his house in fear his money is stolen as he quotes "my house, left in the fearful guard of an unthrift nave", Shylock's servant Lancelot Gobbo complains he is being starved and this frustrates Shylock even more than he already appears to be. ... If he was so bad surely there was another money lender the people of Venice could go too. ...

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