The Merchant of Venice (Dover Thrift Editions) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

 
9780486284927: The Merchant of Venice (Dover Thrift Editions)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0486284921 ISBN 13: 9780486284927
Verlag: Dover Publications Inc., 1995

Inhaltsangabe

The Merchant of Venice is an intriguing drama of love, greed, and revenge. At its heart, the play contrasts the characters of the maddened and vengeful Shylock, a Venetian moneylender, with the gracious, level-headed Portia, a wealthy young woman besieged by suitors. At the play's climax, Shylock insists on the enforcement of a binding contract that will cost the life of the merchant Antonio &; inciting Portia to mount a memorable defense.
In this richly plotted drama, Shylock, whom Shakespeare endowed with all of the depth and vitality of his greatest characters, is not alone in his villainy. In scene after scene, a large cast of ambitious and scheming characters demonstrates that honesty is a quality often strained where matters of love and money are concerned.
The gravity and suspense of the play's central plot, together with its romance, have made The Merchant of Venice a favorite of audiences, and one of the most studied and performed of Shakespeare's plays. It is reprinted here from an authoritative text, complete with explanatory footnotes.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

"He was not of an age, but for all time," declared Ben Jonson of his contemporary William Shakespeare (1564&;1616). Jonson's praise is especially prescient, since at the turn of the 17th century Shakespeare was but one of many popular London playwrights and none of his dramas were printed in his lifetime. The reason so many of his works survive is because two of his actor friends, with the assistance of Jonson, assembled and published the First Folio edition of 1623.

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Great pains have been taken to follow Shakespeare's intentions with regard to the act and scene division and the exact form of speech. The editing has been done from the quarto or folio texts, depending on which considered more authoritative, and the ideal has been to reproduce the chosen texts with as few alterations as possible. In order to help the reader and student, the annotations have been arranged on the relevant pages, providing an easily accessible and indispensable source of information.

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Verlag
Dover Publications Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0486284921
ISBN 13 
9780486284927
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Anzahl der Seiten
96
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