Merchant of Venice (1923) Yale

by William Shakespeare

For other versions of this work, see Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare).

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THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

 

EDITED BY
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

 

 

NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

 

Copyright, 1923
By Yale University Press
Printed in the United States of America

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First published, February, 1923
Second printing, March, 1938
Third printing, December, 1943
Fourth printing, March, 1946
Fifth printing, September, 1950
Sixth printing, January, 1954
Seventh printing, February, 1956
Eighth printing, November, 1957

 

 

The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

and

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.

 

Your Marlowe's page I close, my Shakespeare's ope.
How welcome—after gong and cymbal's din—
The continuity, the long, slow slope,
And vast curves of the gradual violin!

—William Watson.

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
	PAGE
The Text	1
Act I	1
Act II	19
Act III	44
Act IV	68
Act V	85
Notes	97
Appendix A. Sources of the Play	106
Appendix B. The History of the Play	111
Appendix C. The Text of the Present Edition	113
Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading	114
Index of Words Glossed	160

 

The facsimile opposite represents the title-page of the Elizabethan Club copy of the genuine 1600 Quarto of 'The Merchant of Venice.'

 

THE YALE SHAKESPEARE

 

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Edited by

Wilbur L. CrossTucker Brooke

 

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Published under the Direction

of the

Department of English, Yale University,

on the Fund

Given to the Yale University Press in 1917

by the Members of the

Kingsley Trust Association

To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

of the Founding of the Society