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Genre/Form: | Comedy plays Drama |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Shakespeare; Jay L Halio |
ISBN: | 9780192834249 019283424X |
OCLC Number: | 1056996806 |
Notes: | First published by the Clarendon Press, 1993. |
Target Audience: | 1380 |
Description: | xi, 241 pages ; 20 cm. |
Series Title: | Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) |
Responsibility: | William Shakespeare ; edited by Jay L. Halio. |
Abstract:
This edition of The Merchant of Venice, based on a fresh examination of the early editions, includes an exceptionally lucid and accessible introduction which addresses Shakespeare's attitude toward Semitism and establishes the cultural, historical, and literary context in which Shakespeare wrote the play. An interesting range of production photographs and drawings of Renaissance merchants and Jews, and a survey of the play's stage history ranging from discussions of its early staging to important twentieth-century productions and performances outside England, particularly Israel, makes this an ideal edition for students, actors, and the general reader.
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