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Author Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author

Title The merchant of Venice / William Shakespeare ; edited by Kenneth Myrick
Published New York : New American Library, [1965]
Sydney : Tudor Distributors, 1970

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Description 176 pages ; 18 cm
Series The Signet classic Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Works. 1963.
Contents The merchant of Venice -- Textual note --A note on the sources of The merchant of Venice -- Commentaries -- Nicholas Rowe: from The works of Mr. William Shalespear -- William Hazlitt: from Characters of Shakespear's plays -- Anonymous: "Henry Irving's Shylock" -- Elmer Edgar Stoll: from Shylock
Summary 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. --From publisher's description
Notes "A Tudor Signet classic."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Jews -- Italy -- Drama.
Jews.
Moneylenders -- Drama.
Moneylenders.
SUBJECT Venice (Italy) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018142
Italy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021783
Venice (Italy) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018142 -- Drama. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001612
Genre/Form Drama.
Author Myrick, Kenneth, 1897- editor
LC no. 65001539
ISBN 0451512227