Presents Shakespeare's comedy about a creditor demanding a pound of flesh in payment of a defaulted debt and a love who must choose among three caskets in a riddle game to win the hand of a wealthy lady.
For this updated edition of one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays, Tom Lockwood has added a new introductory section on the latest scholarly trends, performance and adaptation practices which have occurred over the last two decades.
Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, EduqasLevel & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015; First examination: June 2017Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International EducationLevel & Subject: International AS & A Level ...
Featuring new revised activities, as well as images taken from a number of different interpretations of the play, this edition also includes expanded sections on characters, language and performance history to offer support at a number of ...
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
One of Shakespeare's greatest and, in recent years, most controversial plays.
shakespeare's stories.
The Merchant of Venice
Plays, playscripts.
The award-winning author of Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human shares his incisive meditations and commentary on each of the great Shakespearean comedies, tragedies, and history plays in a series...
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.