The Merchant of VeniceShylock 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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... copy and returned the prompt - book to the players . This procedure would explain the dif- ferent forms of entry , the special licence required by the first entry and the lack of interest in it in the second , and the fact that ...
... copy and returned the prompt - book to the players . This procedure would explain the dif- ferent forms of entry , the special licence required by the first entry and the lack of interest in it in the second , and the fact that ...
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... COPY 2 Sir E. K. Chambers and Sir Walter Greg both believed that the copy from which Roberts printed the first quarto was very close to Shakespeare's own manuscript.1 This is shown most clearly in some stage directions . Several do not ...
... COPY 2 Sir E. K. Chambers and Sir Walter Greg both believed that the copy from which Roberts printed the first quarto was very close to Shakespeare's own manuscript.1 This is shown most clearly in some stage directions . Several do not ...
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William Shakespeare John Russell Brown. and it can be shown that its copy probably had several spelling characteristics in common with the foul - paper copy for Hamlet.1 3 It has been suggested that the manuscript which Roberts used had ...
William Shakespeare John Russell Brown. and it can be shown that its copy probably had several spelling characteristics in common with the foul - paper copy for Hamlet.1 3 It has been suggested that the manuscript which Roberts used had ...
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