THE MERCHANT OF VENICE.
An Action-Drama.
Scheme of Actions.
| Main Plot. | |||
| First Main Cross Nemesis Action:Story of the Jew: complicated and resolved. | |||
| { | Sub-Action to First Main, also Link Action: Jessica and Lorenzo: simple movement. | } | Underplot. |
| Comic Relief Action: Launcelot;stationary[7]. | |||
| Sub-Action to Second Main: Episode of the Rings: complicated and resolved. | |||
| Second Main Problem Action: Caskets Story: simple movement. | |||
External Circumstance[8]: The (rumoured) Shipwrecks.
Economy.
Two Main Actions connected by Common Personage [Bassanio] and by Link Action [Jessica].
General Interweaving.
Balance. The First Main Action, which is complicated, balances the Second, which is simple, by the additions to the latter of the Jessica interest transferred to it, and the Episode of the Rings generated out of it. [Pages [82], [88].]
Movement.