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asking for a simple summary of a scene where Jessica escapes from her father, Shylock's
house. The reason Jessica runs away is to marry Christian Lorenzo since Shylock would
never grant her marriage with a non-Jewish man.
The escape takes place during
a rainy night. When Lorenzo comes by her house with his friends disguised as a group of
masquers. Shylock was not home among their arrival. Jessica disguises as a young
torchbearer and packs her stuff and ducats of gold and jewels that Shylock has hid for
himself. She climbs out of her window and successfully lands on the boat and they elope.
With the money and jewels that Jessica stole from Shylock, they gamble, drink, visit
prostitution sites and other luxuries. Jessica also trades her mother's marriage ring
for a monkey which Shylock rages about upon hearing.
A century old this year, T.S. Eliot's Preludes raises the curtain on his great modernist masterpieces, The Love...
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