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18 juillet 2016
- doi: 10.4000/books.pur.29723
- isbn: 9782868479228
- eisbn: 9782753545984
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Helen Moore, « Superfluity versus Competency in the Merchant of Venice », Presses universitaires de Rennes, ID : 10.4000/books.pur.29723
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Notions of quantity, and the measurement of quantity, are integral to the plot and imagery of The Merchant of Venice. At one extreme various words are used for excess : ‘superfluity’, ‘surfeit’ and ‘excess’. In the medium range are ‘sufficiency’, ‘competency’ and ‘enough’. At the other extreme, that of deficiency, is ‘empty’. As these examples show, almost all the attention is focussed on, first of all, characterising excess and secondly on discriminating between excess and sufficiency – that...