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English coursework for The Merchant Of Venice A comedy is a play, movie etc, of light witty characters with a happy or cheerful ending. In Shakespeare's time people would find things funny such as women dressing up as men and a person being tortured slightly not extremely. In this play there is a part when characters are in the court where the Jew has given up and taken the money just before that Gratiano had said "O upright Judge! Mark Jew: O learned Judge!" This shows him mocking Shylock as he said it before because he knew h was winning but at his loss he is mocked and this is also repeated again by Gratiano when Portia sentences the Jew to nothing but the penalty. This would be shown as comedy in the Shakespearean audience because a person is getting mocked and put in his place which would be considered funny...

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