The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
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sku: 15366495
gtin: 9780743477567
brand: William Shakespeare
category: Drama
description: These updated editions of classic plays feature new cover art along with the complete text of each work, full explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to famous lines and phrases, and illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books. Reissue. (Plays/Drama) \nIn The Merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father's will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. If he fails, he may never marry at all. \nBassanio and Portia also face a magnificent villain, the moneylender Shylock. In creating Shylock, Shakespeare seems to have shared in a widespread prejudice against Jews. Shylock would have been regarded as a villain because he was a Jew. Yet he gives such powerful expression to his alienation due to the hatred around him that, in many productions, he emerges as the hero. \n \nPortia is most remembered for her disguise as a lawyer, Balthazar, especially the speech in which she urges Shylock to show mercy that droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven. \n \nThe authoritative edition of The Merchant of Venice from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: \n \n-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play \n \n-Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play \n \n-Scene-by-scene plot summaries \n \n-A key to the play's famous lines and phrases \n \n-An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language \n \n-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play \n \n-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books \n \n-An up-to-date annotated guide to further reading \n \nEssay by Alexander Leggatt \n \nThe Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for …
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