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Description</span></strong></p>

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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
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mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare^s most
accessible plays. Although generally considered a comedy, it has an underlying
plot of considerable moral dimension.</span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">The three main characters, Antonio the prosperous
merchant, Shylock, the reviled usurer and the heiress Portia are portrayed in
ways so untypical of Elizabethan norms that the play impresses the modern
reader with its extraordinary relevance.</span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">The text of this edition is taken from the Cambridge
University Press New Shakespeare, edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and John
Dover Wilson.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>





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the Author</span></strong></p>

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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
107%;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">William Shakespeare</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US"> was born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon.
He was an English poet, playwright and actor of the Renaissance era. He was an
important member of the King’s Men company of theatrical players from roughly
1594 onward.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">His
works are loved throughout the world, but Shakespeare^s personal life is
shrouded in mystery. He died on April 23, 1616.</span></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>



