The Merchant

by Arnold Wesker, Glenda Leeming, Glenda Leeming (Contribution by)

Overview

The original version of Wesker's imaginiative reworking of
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. With notes and commentary by
Glenda Leeming.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780413516206
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/24/2006
Series:	Student Editions
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Arnold Wesker F.R.S.L was knighted in 2006 for ‘services to drama’. He has written over forty-three plays, two opera libretti, various mechanical adaptations; four volumes of short stories, a children’s book, and a novel; two volumes of essays, an autobiography, a diary,and a book on journalism; and recently his first volume of poetry. His plays have been produced in cities from Rio de Janeiro to Tokyo, from Paris to Moscow, from Montreal to Zurich, and The Kitchen – his most performed play has been performed yearly somewhere or other around the world for the last fifty years, and recently was revived by The National Theatre in 2011. Arnold Wesker was the recently featured in the Guardian ahead of revivals of his plays Chicken Soup With Barley (The Royal Court) and The Kitchen (The National Theatre): Guardian interview | Arnold Wesker

Jenny Stevens was an Associate Lecturer for the Open University and currently combines educational consultancy work with teaching and writing. She is the co-author with Pamela Bickley of Essential Shakespeare: The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation (2013) and Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Text and Performance (2016).