The Merchant of VeniceMethuen, 1955 - 174 Seiten Shylock loans money to a man he despises, the merchant Antonio, only if a pound of Antonio's flesh will be due, in a court of law, upon default. Antonio borrows the money so that his friend Bessanio can travel to woo the woman he loves, Portia, whose freedom to marry is bound up in a fairy-tale decree of her father's. |
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... Merchant was very close to Shakespeare's own manu- script . IV . EARLY EDITIONS AND REPRINTS As far as we know , The Merchant of Venice was not reprinted until 1619 when a second quarto was published with the simple but deceptive ...
... Merchant was very close to Shakespeare's own manu- script . IV . EARLY EDITIONS AND REPRINTS As far as we know , The Merchant of Venice was not reprinted until 1619 when a second quarto was published with the simple but deceptive ...
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... Merchant , the last in his list , may well have been a very recent play . Sir E. K. Chambers suggested that the latest possible date for The Merchant was as early as autumn 1596 ; he thought that the Gobbo of the play seems likely to ...
... Merchant , the last in his list , may well have been a very recent play . Sir E. K. Chambers suggested that the latest possible date for The Merchant was as early as autumn 1596 ; he thought that the Gobbo of the play seems likely to ...
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... Merchant of Venice is the first story of the fourth day in Ser Giovanni's Il Pecorone . This col- lection of tales was written in Italian at the end of the fourteenth century and was printed at Milan in 1558. A translation is given as ...
... Merchant of Venice is the first story of the fourth day in Ser Giovanni's Il Pecorone . This col- lection of tales was written in Italian at the end of the fourteenth century and was printed at Milan in 1558. A translation is given as ...
Inhalt
PREFACE | vii |
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE I | 24 |
APPENDICES | 140 |
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Abbott allusion Ansaldo Antonio Bass Bassanio Belmont blood bond Capell casket choose chooseth Christian Clarendon clown Collier compositor conj copy daughter doth ducats Duke Dyce E. K. Chambers Elizabethan emendation entry Exeunt Exit eyes fair father fool foul papers Gesta Romanorum Giannetto give Gobbo Gratiano Halliwell Hanmer hath haue honour Iudge Jessica Jew of Malta Jew's Johnson lady Laun Launcelot lawyer Lord Lorenzo Malone master Merchant of Venice mercy Nerissa night Pecorone phrase play Pooler compared Pope Portia pound of flesh pray probably quarto quibble quoted quoth ring Rodolfo Rowe Salerio Scene sense Shakespeare ship Shylock Sola Solanio Solarino speak Steevens Strabino swear thee Theobald theyr thou thought thousand ducats Tilley tion Truculento Tubal usurer usury vnto W. W. Greg William Shakespeare word