... Antonio is sad and it must be because he is gay and longs to be with Bassanio. The truth is that many of Shakespeare's plays open with a depressed and melancholy character, and some also give no explanation. An example of this is Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors. Antipholus is a character that is first shown as somewhat melancholy and sad. We see Antipholus experiencing a kind ... of angst or spiritual incompleteness that we assume is brought on by the absence of his twin or maybe his mother. Maybe there is more to the ... story could he of had love on his mind? Why must ...

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