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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... entries , including that of The Merchant , at their instigation , in order to prevent unauthorized publication by anyone else.1 This might explain the unusual pro- viso about the Lord Chamberlain's licence in the original entry for The ...
... entries , including that of The Merchant , at their instigation , in order to prevent unauthorized publication by anyone else.1 This might explain the unusual pro- viso about the Lord Chamberlain's licence in the original entry for The ...
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... entry directions fail to mention charac- ters who are obviously required by the dialogue . From the study of Elizabethan manuscript plays , it is known that copies for use in a theatre were usually precise and accurate in these matters ...
... entry directions fail to mention charac- ters who are obviously required by the dialogue . From the study of Elizabethan manuscript plays , it is known that copies for use in a theatre were usually precise and accurate in these matters ...
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... Entry ) may have been written in two parts , the explanatory words " the Clowne " being added from a prompt - book or as a step towards com- piling one . But even if the explanatory words were an addition , there is nothing to say where ...
... Entry ) may have been written in two parts , the explanatory words " the Clowne " being added from a prompt - book or as a step towards com- piling one . But even if the explanatory words were an addition , there is nothing to say where ...
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