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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Page xiv
... directions — such inaccuracies might be expected in the course of composition . There are some directions which probably only Shakespeare could have written . A book - keeper in the theatre would not think of adding that a servant came ...
... directions — such inaccuracies might be expected in the course of composition . There are some directions which probably only Shakespeare could have written . A book - keeper in the theatre would not think of adding that a servant came ...
Page xv
... directions ; comparable explanatory phrases are found elsewhere , as in the second quarto of Hamlet , " Polonius , and his Sonne Laertes " ( 1. ii Entry ) . Imperative stage directions , “ Iessica aboue " , " A Song the whilst ...
... directions ; comparable explanatory phrases are found elsewhere , as in the second quarto of Hamlet , " Polonius , and his Sonne Laertes " ( 1. ii Entry ) . Imperative stage directions , “ Iessica aboue " , " A Song the whilst ...
Page xvii
... directions have ob- viously not been taken from the same source as the dialogue " be- cause they do not give the names Leonardo , Stephano , and Bal- thazar which appear in the dialogue . He thought too that " Gobbo " , which is found ...
... directions have ob- viously not been taken from the same source as the dialogue " be- cause they do not give the names Leonardo , Stephano , and Bal- thazar which appear in the dialogue . He thought too that " Gobbo " , which is found ...
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