William Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice / edited by Lawrence Danson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Contributor:

Danson, Lawrence.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Longman cultural edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merchant of Venice.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Merchant of Venice

Place of Publication:

New York : Pearson Longman, [2005]

Summary:

From Longman's Cultural Editions Series, Lawrence Danson presents William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" > in several illuminating contexts-cultural, historical, and critical. Featuring illustrations, a table of dates and performance reviews; the text provides historical sources as well as numerous documents that reveal the cultural context in which "The Merchant of Venice" > was written.

Contents:

The Merchant of Venice

Contexts: On the Rialto and in the Ghetto. Usury. Shylock on stage. Friendship and marriage. "Mark the music"

Further reading.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-256).

ISBN:

0321164199

OCLC:

57071099