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Who is "the Sophy" in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice? Shah Abbas Safavi.
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Sorry but your quiz answer is wrong!
by ramintork on Tue Mar 03, 2009 04:19 AM PSTThis is the line from the play:-
Price of Morocca:
...
By this scimitar,—
That slew the Sophy, and a Persian prince
That won three fields of Sultan Solyman
Shah Abbas (born January 27, 1571; died January 19, 1629) was not slain by the Morrocans fighting for Sultan Solyman, and was very much alive at the time that Merchant of Venice was written ( between 1596 and 1598) . The only Sophy princes killed in that time zone are Mohammad Mirza who was killed by his brother so its not him, Heydar Mirza who was assasinated but lastly Hamzeh Mriza who fought the Ottomans and was also later assasinated most likely correct answer, but contary to the play he won Tabriz back from Ottomons.
Shah Abbas campain against Ottomans was in 1603 after the massive introduction of Muskets and artillery by the British ( Robert Shirley). The play had been out by several years then!
The Bard would likely have known about the Sophy dynasty, Ottomons and Moors well before Robert Shirley came to the scene as he uses the Italian plays such as Un Capitano Moro" and Venetian War with Turks in Othello the Moorish Captain (by Cinthio published in 1565) so I don't even think that he uses Shah Abbas with some poetic license!