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by: William Shakespeare
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.33
EAN: 9780743452984
ISBN: 0743452984
Label: Washington Square Press
Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: November 05, 2002
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Release Date: November 05, 2002
Sales Rank: 1800432
Studio: Washington Square Press
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
In The Merchant of Venice, the penniless but attractive Bassanio seeks, and finally wins, the hand of the fabulously wealthy Portia. But even as the play provokes laughter, it also provokes something disturbing, as Bassanio's courtship is actually financed by the magnificent villain Shylock the moneylender -- the focus of anti-Semitic sentiment, and one of the most controversial yet strangely sympathetic of Shakespeare's characters, whose actions and whose treatment in the play are still debated to this day.
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