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Title: The Merchant of Venice
Condition: New
EAN: 9780300115642
ISBN: 9780300115642
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 31/10/2006
Item Height: 197mm
Item Length: 127mm
Item Width: 13mm
Item Weight: 181g
Author: William Shakespeare
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300115644
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Burton Raffel (Edited by), Harold Bloom (Contributions by)
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Book Series: Annotated Shakespeare
Topic: Literary Criticism
Release Year: 2006
Description: The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world’s greatest dramatist
 
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia but lacks the necessary funds. He turns to his merchant friend, Antonio, who is forced to borrow from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender. When Antonio’s business falters, repayment becomes impossible—and by the terms of the loan agreement, Shylock is able to demand a pound of Antonio’s flesh. Portia cleverly intervenes, and all ends well (except of course for Shylock).
 
This fully annotated version of Merchant of Venice makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary, pronunciation, and prosody and provides alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations give readers all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations.

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