Merchant of Venice

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Barrons Educational Services, Apr 1, 1985 - Drama - 240 pages
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Here are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own. Each play is presented with Shakespeare's original lines on each left-hand page, and a modern, easy-to-understand "translation" on the facing right-hand page. All dramas are complete, with every original Shakespearian line, and a full-length modern rendition of the text. These invaluable teaching-study guides also include:
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  2. Discussion questions that teachers can use to spark student class participation, and which students can use as springboards for their own themes and term papers.
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It is also possible that he found the basic stories of the pound of flesh and the rings in a collection of tales called Il ... and that he added the casket story from a work called the Gesta Romanorum ( available to Shakespeare in a new ...
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Structure 1 There are four main stories in The Merchant of Venice : a the story of Antonio , Bassanio , Shylock and the bond b the story of Portia and the caskets c the story of Lorenzo and Jessica d the story of the rings i In what ...
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15 Though the casket story and the story of the bond appear to be quite separate , they are in fact linked in many ways . Show the connections . 16 What can be said for and against Shylock's attitude toward Antonio ?

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Contents

Original text and modern version
17
Activities
212
Structure
222
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

Act 1 Scene answer Antonio Bassanio Belmont better blood bond bring casket character choose Christian clerk comes court daughter dear deny deserves devil doctor doth Duke Enter Exeunt eyes fair father flesh follow fool fortune gave give gold Gratiano half hand hath head hear heart heaven honour hope husband I'll Italy Jessica judge justice keep kind lady Lancelot leave lines live look lord Lorenzo lose madam married master means merchant mind Morocco Nerissa never night offer Old Gobbo play Portia pray present Prince reason ring Salerio Scene Servant Shakespeare ship Shylock Solanio soul speak speech stand story sweet talk tell thank thee things thou thought thousand ducats true Tubal turn understand Venice wife wish young

About the author (1985)

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England's Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children--an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare's only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare's working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

Bibliographic information

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TitleMerchant of Venice
Shakespeare Made Easy
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
Editionreprint
PublisherBarrons Educational Services, 1985
ISBN0812035704, 9780812035704
Length240 pages
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