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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... Shakespeare ( 1 , 1957 ; II , 1958 ) . E. K. Chambers , The Elizabethan Stage ( 1923 ) , 4 vols . E. K. Chambers , William Shakespeare : a Study of Facts and Prob- lems ( 1930 ) , 2 vols . T. Coryat , Coryat's Crudities ( ed . 1905 ) ...
... Shakespeare ( 1 , 1957 ; II , 1958 ) . E. K. Chambers , The Elizabethan Stage ( 1923 ) , 4 vols . E. K. Chambers , William Shakespeare : a Study of Facts and Prob- lems ( 1930 ) , 2 vols . T. Coryat , Coryat's Crudities ( ed . 1905 ) ...
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... Shakespeare's own manuscript . ' This is shown most clearly in some stage directions . Several do not specify the ... Shakespeare could have written . A book - keeper in the theatre would not think of adding that a servant came " from ...
... Shakespeare's own manuscript . ' This is shown most clearly in some stage directions . Several do not specify the ... Shakespeare could have written . A book - keeper in the theatre would not think of adding that a servant came " from ...
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... Shakespeare's own manu- script . IV . EARLY EDITIONS AND REPRINTS As far as we know , The Merchant of Venice was not ... Shakespeare and pseudo - Shakespeare plays . Proof of this depends on the use of standing type , linking all but one ...
... Shakespeare's own manu- script . IV . EARLY EDITIONS AND REPRINTS As far as we know , The Merchant of Venice was not ... Shakespeare and pseudo - Shakespeare plays . Proof of this depends on the use of standing type , linking all but one ...
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