From the Royal Shakespeare Company โ a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's bittersweet comedy of courtship and ethnic tension THIS EDITION INCLUDES: * An introduction to The Merchant of Venice by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate * The ...
... while Christopher Spencer's The Genesis of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice (Lewiston, N.Y., 1989) traces their original literary and social contexts. FURTHER READING Barnet, Sylvan, ed., Twentieth-Century Interpretations of The ...
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Plays, playscripts.
Tells of Antonio, the greatest merchant in the city of Venice.
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.
... and (as Ben Brantley's excitable review put it in the New York Times) the final meeting of Lily Rabe's Portia and Pacino's Shylock generated heat and light precisely in this way: 'the collision lights up the sky'.4 The production ...
69 Arthur Bivins Stonex, 'The usurer in Elizabethan drama', PMLA 31 (1916), 190โ210. 70 He also perhaps has some traits of the puritan. Thomas Wilson associates puritans and usurers, and the puritans' predilection for the Old Testament ...
This volume contains the full text of the play with explanatory footnotes and marginal glosses for contemporary readers.
The Merchant of Venice: Notes
Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss. There befools alive, iwis, Silvered o'er; and so was this. Take what wifeyou will to bed, I will ever beyour head. So be gone;you are sped. Still more fool I shall appear ...
Explore the characters, themes, motifs, and modern interpretations of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice all in modern English.
Warren Mitchell's casting as Shylock should have been important if only for the fact that it offers the example of a Jewish actor playing the part. However, Mitchell presents Shylock in precisely the manner that Antony Sher sought to ...
From the Royal Shakespeare Company โ a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's bittersweet comedy of courtship and ethnic tension THIS EDITION INCLUDES: * An introduction to The Merchant of Venice by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate * The ...
I'll have my bond , speak not against my bond , I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond . Thou call'dst me a dog before thou hadst a cause , But since I am a dog beware my fangs . The duke shall grant me justice .
Bassanio, a young Venetian of noble rank, wishes to woo the beautiful and wealthy heiress Portia of Belmont.
35 40 a 45 Enter Old Gobbo , with a basket Gobbo : Master young man , you ; I pray you , which is the way to Master Jew's ? ... young Master Launcelot ? Gobbo : No ' master ' , sir , but , a poor man's son ; his father , though I say't ...
Russell. and Robert Smallwood. eds.. Players of Shakespeare 3 ( l 99 3 ). Deborah Findlay on playing Portia; Gregory Doran on Solanio. Jones. Maria. Shakespeare's Culture in Modern Performance (2003). Chapter 3 on Merchant of Venice. pp ...