Merchant of Venice (1923) Yale

For other versions of this work, see Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare).
The Merchant of Venice (1923)
William Shakespeare, edited by William Lyon Phelps
2678273The Merchant of Venice1923William Shakespeare

The Yale Shakespeare


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


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 title page from the Quarto of 1600, including the title, author, and information about publication

THE YALE SHAKESPEARE


Edited by

Wilbur L. CrossTucker Brooke


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


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1923, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1943, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse