Friendly Folio - The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice is a comedy written by William Shakespeare...

Beginnings Available:

The complete package for a play's first 30 minutes, with all scripts and guides. The perfect introduction to Cue Script work in the classroom or workshop.

Total Lines Characters Genders Running Time  
543 11 (or 9 with doubling) 9 male, 2 female 32 to 36 mins
494 (Short Version) 10 (or 9 with doubling) 8 male, 2 female 29 to 33 mins

Parts / Sides in 'The Merchant of Venice':

250+ Lines:
Bassanio
Portia
Shylocke
Less Than 250 Lines:
Anthonio
Anthonio Man
Arragon
Balthaser
Clowne (Launcelet)
Duke (of Venice)
Gratiano
Jaylor
Jessica
Leonardo
Lorenzo
Messenger (Stephano)
Morrocho
Nerrissa
Old Gobbo
Salerio (Salarino)
Servingman
Solanio
Tubal

Speeches:

Code Character Lines First Line  
G-200 Salerio (Salarino)22 Marry well remembred,
(A kinder Gentleman treads not the earth,)
G-201 Salerio (Salarino)26 Your minde is tossing on the Ocean,
(My winde cooling my broth,)
M-200 Anthonio18 But little: I am arm'd and well prepar'd.
(NULL)
M-201 Anthonio19 I pray you thinke you question with the Jew:
(I am a tainted Weather of the flocke,)
M-202 Arragon34 And so have I addrest me, fortune now
(NULL)
M-203 Bassanio27 O sweet Portia,
(Heere are a few of the unpleasant'st words)
M-204 Bassanio35 So may the outward showes be least themselves
(NULL)
M-205 Clowne (Launcelet)28 (prose) Certainely, my conscience will serve me to run
(NULL)
M-206 Gratiano26 Let me play the foole,
(There are a sort of men, whose visages)
M-207 Lorenzo20 Let's in, and there expect their comming.
(How sweet the moone-light sleepes upon this banke,)
M-208 Morrocho48 Some God direct my judgement, let me see,
(NULL)
M-209 Salerio (Salarino)22 Marry well remembred,
(A kinder Gentleman treads not the earth,)
M-210 Salerio (Salarino)26 Your minde is tossing on the Ocean,
(My winde cooling my broth,)
M-211 Shylocke28 I have possest your grace of what I purpose,
(NULL)
M-212 Shylocke18 If everie Ducat in sixe thousand Ducates
(What judgement shall I dread doing no wrong?)
M-213 Shylocke23 Signior Anthonio, many a time and oft
(NULL)
M-214 Shylocke19 (prose) To baite fish withall, if it will feede nothing
(Hath not a Jew eyes?)
W-200 Portia23 Away then, I am lockt in one of them,
(NULL)
W-201 Portia24 I pray you tarrie, pause a day or two
(NULL)
W-202 Portia29 Is your name Shylocke?
(The quality of mercy is not strain'd,)
W-203 Portia22 The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
(NULL)
W-204 Portia24 What, no more?
(Pay him sixe thousand, and deface the bond:)
W-205 Portia26 You see my Lord Bassiano where I stand,
(NULL)