Merchant of Venice

Features a new introductory section on the latest scholarly trends, performance and adaptation practices.

List of contents

Introduction; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Supplementary note; Textual analysis; Appendix: Shakespeare's use of the Bible in The Merchant of Venice; Revised reading list.

About the author

M. M. Mahood was Professor of English Literature at the University of Kent.Tom Lockwood is Reader in English Literature at the University of Birmingham.

Summary

For this updated edition of one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays, Tom Lockwood has added a new introductory section on the latest scholarly trends, performance and adaptation practices which have occurred over the last two decades.

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare, Shakespeare William
• Assisted by: M. M. Mahood (Editor), M.M. Mahood (Editor), M.M. (University of Kent Mahood (Editor), Lockwood Tom (Introduction)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781107141681
• ISBN: 978-1-107-14168-1
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare: The; The New Cambridge Shakespeare
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights