The Merchant of Venice (No Fear Shakespeare Series)

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No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of The Merchant of Venice on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.

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Overview

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of The Merchant of Venice on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.

Each No Fear Shakespeare contains

  • The complete text of the original play
  • A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language
  • A complete list of characters with descriptions
  • Plenty of helpful commentary
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781586638504
  • Publisher: Sterling
  • Publication date: 7/15/2003
  • Series: No Fear Shakespeare Series
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 68,566
  • Product dimensions: 5.20 (w) x 7.40 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
General editor's preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction 1
1 Shylock 25
2 The Venetians 44
3 The Problem of Launcelot Gobbo 67
4 Belmont 80
5 Shylock the Jew 106
6 The Trial 117
7 Belmont Revisited 145
App. 1 Production credits and cast lists 158
App. 2 Reviews cited 172
App. 3 Abbreviations 175
Bibliography 177
Index 179
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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 2, 2006

    Awesome

    This book has greatly helped me with understanding Shakespeare's confusing literature. I found it is best to read the original text, try your best to understand, then read the modern text, and finally go back over the original text. I highly recommend this to anyone having difficulty with Shakespeare. It actually makes it interesting!

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 24, 2013

    Yet Another Shakespeare Book

    The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare is the story of a merchant named Bassiano, and his love, the heiress, Portia. This book also had a Jewish moneylender by the name of Shylock, and he has one of the most famous speeches about antisemitism ever written. This book also has the common phrase, "All that glitters is not gold." Although those parts of the play were interesting, it was still difficult to understand, there were many metaphors and analogies to ships and docks that I didn't understand, and it just had a dull ending. It was just, yet again, another Shakespeare book.

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  • Posted February 20, 2010

    Such a good and enticing book!

    The Mercant of Venice is such a great book. It's thrilling and has such a geat story line.

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  • Posted November 11, 2009

    Merchant made new

    This was my first No Fear Shakespeare and I am going to get right back and buy more. How wonderful to find the door to understanding what this genius author wrote. Merchant had every element one loves to find in literature, understanding it broadens the horizons. Thanks!

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