The merchant of Venice / by William Shakespeare ; [edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Contributor:

Mowat, Barbara A.

Werstine, Paul.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New Folger Library Shakespeare

The new Folger Library Shakespeare.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xlix, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Washington Square Press new Folger Library hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Washington Square Press, 2002.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233)

ISBN:

0743452984

OCLC:

51946176