The Merchant Of Venice Annotated With Biography And Critical Essay

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 121 pages
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Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781610426220

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The Merchant of Venice (Annotated with Biography and Critical Essay) by William Shakespeare Pdf

It is not known when The Merchant of Venice was written although it is known that it was performed at the royal Court in February of 1605. The setting is Venice, Italy. The play begins with Bassanio, a friend of Antonio who is a merchant, asks Antonio for a loan. Bassanio wants to woo Portia, the rich heiress of Belmont. Although Antonio is wealthy, his money is tied up in investments, mostly ships, so he asks Shylock, a rich Jewish moneylender, for the loan. Shylock hates Antonio. He tells him that he will lend him the money, but if the loan is unpaid within three months’ time, he must give Shylock a pound of his flesh. Antonio, wanting to help Bassanio who is besotted with Portia, agrees to this unusual arrangement. This annotated edition includes a biography and critical essay.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Jews
ISBN : UCLA:31158000128339

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The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781610426169

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Othello (Annotated with Biography and Critical Essay) by William Shakespeare Pdf

Othello, a tragedy, written about 1603, is about perceived adultery and murder. Othello is a Moor from northern Africa. The play is set in Venice where he is a general in the Venetian army. Shakespeare based the play on an Italian short story published in 1565. The play begins with Iago (Othello’s ensign - a low ranking officer) and Roderigo (a Venetian gentleman) going to visit Brabantio (a Venetian senator). Desdemona, his daughter, has eloped with Othello. Roderigo is in love with Desdemona. Iago is fuming about losing a promotion that Othello granted to Cassio. This annotated edition includes a biography and critical essay.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798690887896

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The MERCHANT of VENICE (with Story) by William Shakespeare Pdf

ILLUSTRATED.ANNOTATIONS*Biography of William Shakespeare*About Merchant of Venice*Merchant of Venice Summary*Character List*Summary And Analysis*Act 1*Act 2*Act 3*Act 4*Act 5*About Shakespearean Theater

Author : William Shakespeare,Sidney Lee
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9788026804963

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The Merchant of Venice (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare,Sidney Lee Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: “The Merchant of Venice (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623. Bassanio, an impoverished gentleman, uses the credit of his friend, the merchant Antonio, to borrow money from a wealthy Jew, Shylock. Antonio pledges to pay Shylock a pound of flesh if he defaults on the loan, which Bassanio will use to woo a rich heiress, Portia. A subplot concerns the elopement of Shylock's daughter Jessica with a Christian, Bassanio's friend Lorenzo. Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published in 1898, based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain. Sir Sidney Lee (1859 – 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.

Author : Garrett T. Caples
Publisher : Research & Education Assoc.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995-10-30
Category : Jews in literature
ISBN : 0878910263

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William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice by Garrett T. Caples Pdf

REA's MAXnotes for William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice The MAXnotes offers a comprehensive summary and analysis of The Merchant of Venice and a biography of William Shakespeare. Places the events of the play in historical context and discusses each act in detail. Includes study questions and answers along with topics for papers and sample outlines.

Author : George Farren
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1104012456

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An Essay on Shakespeare's Character of Shylock by George Farren Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1439500908

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The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Pdf

Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. Another feature of this series includes dramatic criticism from the past and present: Commentaries by Nicholas Rowe, William Hazlitt, Edgar Elmer Stoll, Linda Bamber, Alexander Leggart, and Robert Smallwood. Special introduction by Kenneth Myrick, Tufts University.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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APAIS 1992: Australian public affairs information service by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karen Raber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351964906

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Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700 by Karen Raber Pdf

Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam, the first original drama written in English by a woman, has been a touchstone for feminist scholarship in the period for several decades and is now one of the most anthologized works by a Renaissance woman writer. Her History of ... Edward II has provided fertile ground for questions about authorship and historical form. The essays included in this volume highlight the many evolving debates about Cary's works, from their complicated generic characteristics, to the social and political contexts they reflect, to the ways in which Cary's writing enters into dialogue with texts by male writers of her time. In its critical introduction, the volume offers a thorough analysis of where Cary criticism has been and where it might venture in the future.

Author : William Baker,Brian Vickers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781847141873

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The Merchant of Venice by William Baker,Brian Vickers Pdf

The Merchant of Venice has always been regarded as one of Shakespeare's most interesting plays. Before the nineteenth century critical reaction is relatively fragmentary. However between then and the late twentieth century the critical tradition reveals the tremendous vitality of the play to evoke emotion in the theatre and in the study. Since the middle of the twentieth century reactions to the drama have been influenced by the Nazi destruction of European Jewry. The first volume to document the full tradition of criticism of The Merchant of Venice includes an extensive introduction which charts the reactions to the play up to the beginning of the twenty first century and reflects changing reactions to prejudice in this period. Material by a variety of critics appears here for the first time since initial publication. Reactions are included from: Malone, Hazlitt, Jameson, Heine, Knight, Lewes, Halliwell-Phillips, Furnivall, Irving, Ruskin, Swinburne, Masefield, Gollancz and Quiller-Couch.

Author : Christina G. Waldman
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628943320

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Francis Bacon’s Hidden Hand in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice by Christina G. Waldman Pdf

Author : Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom,William Shakespeare
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438134352

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William Shakespeare's the Merchant of Venice by Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom,William Shakespeare Pdf

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is a richly complicated and, to some, a deeply;disturbing work.

Author : Nath Drake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000100335

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Shakspeare and His Times Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticism of His Genius and Writings ... by Nath Drake Pdf

Author : Bernard J. Paris
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814766552

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Imagined Human Beings by Bernard J. Paris Pdf

One of literature's greatest gifts is its portrayal of realistically drawn characters--human beings in whom we can recognize motivations and emotions. In Imagined Human Beings, Bernard J. Paris explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behavior of these characters as we would the behavior of real people. When realistically drawn characters are understood in psychological terms, they tend to escape their roles in the plot and thus subvert the view of them advanced by the author. A Horneyan approach both alerts us to conflicts between plot and characterization, rhetoric and mimesis, and helps us understand the forces in the author's personalty that generate them. The Horneyan model can make sense of thematic inconsistencies by seeing them as the product of the author's inner divisions. Paris uses this approach to explore a wide range of texts, including Antigone, "The Clerk's Tale," The Merchant of Venice, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Wuthering Heights, Madame Bovary, The Awakening, and The End of the Road.