#bassanio

[androgynous-bhajipav]

Antonio from the Merchant of Venice is in love with Bassanio (and Portia knows)

EVIDENCE:

Act 1, Scene 1: when Salarino guesses Antonio is in love (context: "in sooth I know not why I'm so sad"), Antonio is quick to deny this. Too quick, if you ask me.

Act 1, Scene 3: Antonio basically promises his life to his mortal enemy in exchange for 3000 ducats, just to make Bassanio happy.

Act 2, Scene 8: The entire damn exchange between Salanio and Salarino. Like what the actual hell? "I think he loves the world only for him [Bassanio]"

Act 3, Scene 3: So Antonio is imprisoned. He believes he's gonna die. And he's okay with it. AS LONG AS HE SEES BASSANIO FIRST. HE LAST WISH IS TO SEE BASSANIO HAPPY AND DIE WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT HE WAS THE REASON BASSANIO FOUND HAPPINESS.

Act 3, Scene 4: Lorenzo, seriously? "How dear a lover of my lord your husband..." lover? LOVER? in every other case of friendship, the words Brother or just simply, Friend is used. But lover? Shakesqueer be like, "No, let's reserve these for my two precious pookies"

Act 4, Scene 1: I'd give actual money to see Portia's exact expression during this scene. Like, what would be her exact reaction when Bassanio says shit like "my life, my wife, and all the world is absolutely zero, unimportant, insignificant in front of you, bro" and after that (AFTER THAT) when Antonio Literally says "bid her be judge, whether Bassanio had not once a love". What would Portia be feeling then?

Act 4, Scene 1: Bassanio- No, my wife says no. I will never give you this ring. Antonio- * winks flirtatiously * Bassanio- TAKE THE DAMN RING

Act 5: Portia gives Antonio a ring and tells him to give it to Bassanio when she could've just given it to him herself.

#merchant of venice #Antonio #shakesqueer #shakespeare #Bassanio #Portia #Merchthrift #desi academia #desiblr #icse2023 #icse board #english literature #litblr #bane of my existence #I meant Shakesqueer #if only he knew #Antonio dear I would've loved you if you weren't so antisemitic #Shylock deserves happiness #Jessica is a traitor #the merchant of venice

[comparativetarot]

Seven of Cups. Art by Eunice Choi, from Bard’s Arcana: The Tarot of Shakespeare.

Bassanio, The Merchant of Venice

#Eunice Choi #Bard’s Arcana #Seven of Cups #Seven #Cups #Minor Arcana #Tarot #Literature #William Shakespeare #The Merchant of Venice #Bassanio

[anyavaramyr]

The thing with summer vacations is that it drives you to into the pits of extreme boredom.

See for example:- The fact that I actually wrote a merchant of Venice fanfiction. Antonio x Bassanio. I think I need help

#on another note its a pretty damn good story #i rlly wanna post it #MERCHANT OF VENICE FANDOM ARISE #mov #merchant of venice #the things the Indian school system does to a person #antonio #bassanio #antonio x bassanio

[ebiemidnightlibrarian]

HAMISH LINKLATER as LORD BASSANIO in the 2010 Shakespeare's in the Park Production of The Merchant of Venice

#hamish linklater #lily rabe #al pacino #jesse tyler ferguson #shakespeare in the park #the merchant of venice #shakespeare #lord bassanio #bassanio #portia #shylock

[sanguine-prince]

bassanio: what’s the big deal about borrowing money? i do it all the time! sometimes, i even pay it back!

#the merchant of venice #shakespeare #bassanio #has this been done before #source: living single #i think #incorrect quotes #val talks

[velvet4510]

#the merchant of venice #shakespeare plays #shakespeare #william shakespeare #antonio #bassanio #classic literature #theatre #shakespearean #literary polls #theatre polls

[maximoff-swift13]

What I hate about most adaptions of The Merchant of Venice is how damn serious they play Act 5 Scene 1. I've always read it as a more comical scene, and in my head it's always played as very overdramatic, shits and giggles, and I always imagined Portia and Nerissa being just SO overdramatic while Bassanio and Gratiano freak out like the dumb boys they are. I can always hear the laugh track after Bassanio wishes he cut his hand off. So whenever I see this scene played so damn serious with Gratiano and Nerissa, Bassanio and Portia at actual conflict, it comes off as so puzzling to me.

#the merchant of venice #portia #bassanio #gratiano #nerissa #william shakespeare #shakespeare #nah cuz WHAT #WHY ISNT THERE A LAUGH TRACK HALF OF THE SCENE #oh and dont get me started on antonio #this man watches as his friends marriages unravel as a result of HIS decision and what does he do? NOTHING #antonio is SO shady #antonio

[lizardrosen]

also on the subject of that Merchant of Venice, the end really looks like it's going to give us the ot3 we all deserve, with Portia giving Antonio the ring, and then Antonio giving it to Bassanio, with the same visual language, and then Portia and Nerissa kiss and it looks like it'll even be an ot5 with Gratiano thrown in there too, and then!! after it comes out that they were the lawyer and his clerk, Antonio just!! gets really sad and turns to leave!!! Why tease us with an ot5 if you're going to snatch it away?? LOOK at this and tell me that's not clearly signalling a happy polyamorous ending!!

#merchant of venice #shakespeare #shakesqueer #portia #antonio #bassanio #nerissa

[rxbbit-heart]

muse profile—bassanio

𖤓 name: bassanio

𖤓 pronouns: he/him

𖤓 source: the merchant of venice by william shakespeare

𖤓 bio: venetian nobleman whose fortune is rather depleted and lives beyond his means.

#the merchant of venice #bassanio #shakespeare #rp #muse intro #𖤓 bassanio #bassanioposting

[gayestshakespearecouples]

I keep thinking about how Olivia literally falls passionately in love with another woman onstage. Like yeah I absolutely headcanon Viola as nonbinary or transmasc too but as far as Shakespeare was concerned she's a woman* and he just wrote another woman declaring her heartfelt, undoubtedly romantic love for her. That's absolutely wild. Outside of Achilles and Patroclus, who aren't Shakespeare's own characters, it's technically the only case of Canon Canon™ romantic love between same sex characters in Shakespeare (though sadly Viola does not return the feeling in canon.)

*of course she always would've been played by a male actor and the crossdressing comedies have fun with that, but the same goes for every female character in Shakespeare so...

#btw of all the 'says they love each other but you COULD argue ''love'' wasn't meant that way' male/male pairs in Shakespeare #I actually think Antonio and Bassanio are the most intensely homoerotic ans impossible to ignore that side of their relationship #mostly because one of them says he loves the other more than he loves his wife I guess #I still think it's a shame those two went out in round one although I understand it's because they are terrible people #lars speaks

[anyavaramyr]

Love is blind

Antonio x Bassanio oneshot(by a very frustrated literature student who is v v tired)

A/n:- I don't know if you've noticed but I have no idea how to actually post a fic on tumblr, but I tried.@vaguely-tricksy here you go!

Antonio did not know why he was sad

That ache he felt in his chest sometimes was now a feeling that he had grown accustomed to, that deep longing for something he couldn't name but desperately longed for. But it was never physical this pain, it emanated from somewhere deep inside of him, a part of his heart telling him something in a language he did not understand.

When Salanio first implied that he might be in love, Antonio had scoffed. Love, he'd thought assuredly, was not something that was not meant for him. As a young child Antonio had dreamed of it of course, as any child does. Finding a beautiful wife that he loved and settling down in a quaint little house near the Grand Canal, just him, her and a little mini them that he would love with all his heart. But then his father died and the responsibility of looking after the family fell to him. He'd toiled and struggled to provide stability for his family, worked hard to get to the place he is now. But even after he had become one of the most esteemed merchants of Venice, Antonio did not contemplate love. He had his trading business to look after, a family would be too much affort at this age. Besides who even needed love when he had money and friendships that he would sacrifice anything for.

Now, standing in Belmont in Portia's majestic palace, Antonio looks around at his lovelorn friends and their lovely spouses and smiles warmly. Just because he didn't believe in love for himself, didn't mean he doesn't believe in love at all. He watches the happy couples around him; Jessica and Lorenzo, jubilant after finally being able to be together without hindrance from Shylock, Gratiano and Nerissa, the latter of which helped the Venician control his wayward tongue and rude comments and lastly at Portia and Bassanio, where he lets his eyes linger

Bassanio looked....happy. Truly, wonderfully happy with the woman he loved, and his heart grew warm at how merry he looked. The merchant had always loved it when Bassanio looked like that; his green eyes alight with joy, carefree and with a smile that could rival the sun with how bright it was. He would do anything to keep that expression on his dearest friend's face. But then he felt the ache in his chest creep up again, wrapping its tendrils around him at the way Bassanio looked at Portia like she was his whole world. It was always him, Antonio remembered, that made Bassanio smile like that. And then suddenly, all at once, something in him clicked.

Antonio knew Bassanio would not be able to repay the loans he gave him, he knew that Bassanio was reckless with his money and liked to live more lavishly than he could afford to and he knew that if he continued to give him loans he would eventually run into some trouble. But he still did. Because it was Bassanio and Antonio would find a way to steal the moon from the night sky, uncaring of it's consequences, if he desperately wanted it. He would give him anything he wanted, even if it meant accepting a grant from his greatest rival.

When the news of his imminent execution reached Antonio, he did not think of writing to one of the many lawyers he knew; he did not bother calling his friends in high society or begging Shylock to show him mercy. No, instead he wrote to Bassanio to come home to Venice. Because if he was going to die, he wished to do so after seeing his closest companion one last time. He wished to leave this world, knowing Bassanio would be alright and he wished to take the memories of those last moments with him when he finally departed from this world.

Antonio could feel his breathing quicken as realization rushed through him, as he figured out why all his life he'd always strived towards his best friend's well being. He felt his pulse thrum and his heart pound in his ears as he finally came to an understanding as to why that perfect picture of a family he'd had in his childhood didn't suit his fancy anymore. Because now when he thought of happiness he didn't think of an unnamed beautiful woman who would smile up at him with love in her eyes. Now he thought of Bassanio.

The heart of the famed merchant of Venice could not belong to any woman, for it had already been stolen by the man Antonio called his soulmate.

Antonio now knew why he was so sad, and he was starting to wish he really didn't.

I fr need help if this is what I've been doing in my past time. Which I have so. Pls suggest a therapist. Also took some creative liberties with Antonio's past(forgive me Shakespeare).

#merchant of venice #Merchant of Venice #capitalisation for the win #shakespeare #william shakespeare #antonio #bassanio #antonio x bassanio #antonioxbassanio #gay #?? #ig #have fun people #portia #lorenzo #gratiano #nerissa

[just2bubbly]

You can take the kid out of icse 10th but the icse 10th never gets out of the kid

#I mean the trauma and the syllabus too #It's been 2 years since I left icse and I still remember lines from mov #And fucking all the drama of arragon Morocco and bassanio #And the line of the casket #Who chooseth me get what many men desire #Who chooseth me get what many men deserve #Who chooseth me get what- #Idk what the last caslet had #And shylock was so fabulous #Jessica was dumb to marey Lorenzo #And fuck my memory of mov and the plot and the dialogues #So true that the icse never gets out of u #Icse #Desi kids #Academia #Merchant of venice

[wehaveallgotknives]

please explain why in the tags. ETA I fucken forgot twelfth night, but i do think it’s not as fucked up as shrew or all’s well

#for me it’s merchant #the racism is so queasy bc like: are we meant to empathise with shylock or not? are we meant to think portia forcing him to convert is good? #also there’s no reading of Antonio EXCEPT that he’s in tragic gay love with bassanio which is just!!! tragic #shakespeare #william shakespeare

[the-queer-classic-lit-ship-ever]

round 1, part c

#queer classic lit ship tourney #tournament #round 1 #round 1c #the three musketeers #merchant of venice #antonio and bassanio made it onto the gay shakespeare ppt #hehe

[britneyshakespeare]

i have to be honest. i would simply not have agreed to a loan if the condition for not repaying by the specified date were a pound of my flesh. i must tell the truth in that i would have avoided all of that entirely.

#men are stupid #I HAVE NEVER WANTED TO SEE SOMEONE HATECRIMED EXCEPT FOR ANTONIO #A POUND OF HIS FLESH RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO SHYLOCK!!!!!!! #text post #the merchant of venice #shakespeare #jacob fortune-lloyd is the name of the actor who played bassanio that i thought was cute #he is also jewish #and he's playing brian epstein in an upcoming biopic!!!! that's really cool #well if it's any good that's really cool. #lotta bad biopics seem to have come out lately....... blonde who shall not be named oh shit #the elvis biopic was half-good but it had some serious problems. namely that it was about elvis. #i saw it w my dad though it was a nice night at the theater #it did a good job at explaining how he came to be a musical icon but did a terrible fucking job at handling his personal life #as any kiss-ass sorta movie made for boomer music fans would. if they didn't wanna think about how their legend was #Actually Not A Wholly Uncomplicatedly Good Person #so i can't say i was really shocked or offended #brian epstein is a little bit different though. because he's not the SUPERSTAR he was the brains behind the superstars. #and kind of a legend in his own right but definitely not a typical figure in pop culture iconography. #idk. if the actor's cute i'll watch it. that's my take #hope it's good though

[dandyduel]

Harold Bloom the mind that you are

#mov #merchant of venice #antonio x bassanio #shakespeare #shylock #slay #harold bloom