The Merchant of Venice (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) - Hardcover

Shakespeare, William; Mowat, Barbara A.; Werstine, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743452984 ISBN 13: 9780743452984

Verlag: Washington Square Pr, 2002

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In The Merchant of Venice, the penniless but attractive Bassanio seeks, and finally wins, the hand of the fabulously wealthy Portia. But even as the play provokes laughter, it also provokes something disturbing, as Bassanio's courtship is actually financed by the magnificent villain Shylock the moneylender -- the focus of anti-Semitic sentiment, and one of the most controversial yet strangely sympathetic of Shakespeare's characters, whose actions and whose treatment in the play are still debated to this day.

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Barbara A. Mowat is Director of Academic Programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Executive Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, Chair of the Folger Institute, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare's Romances and of essays on Shakespeare's plays and on the editing of the plays.

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• Verlag: Washington Square Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0743452984
• ISBN 13: 9780743452984
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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