An international team of scholars offers: modernised, easily accessible texts ample but unobtrusive academic guidance attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stage history informative illustrations, including reconstructions of early performances The Merchant of Venice has been performed more often than any other comedy by Shakespeare. This edition pays special attention to the expectations of its first audience, and to our modern experience of seeing and hearing the play.
| ISBN: | 9780521221566 |
| Publication date: | 10th September 1987 |
| Author: | William Shakespeare, M M Mahood |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 205 pages |
| Series: | New Cambridge Shakespeare |
| Genres: |
Classic and pre-20th century plays |