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The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598.A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan taken out on behalf of his dear friend, Bassanio, and provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock, with seemingly inevitable fatal consequences.
A muda was the convoy of merchant ships that usually left Venice in spring and came back in autumn. In the earliest times, the mudas only visited ports in the Levant. In later years, the ships sailed also to European ports. Along with merchants and goods, the mudas brought knowledge, new ideas and new cultures to Venice.
Each table is arranged alphabetically by the specific work, then by the language of the translation. Translations are then sub-arranged by date of publication (earliest-latest). Where possible, the date of publication given is the date of the first edition by that translator. More modern editions/versions may be available.
All of the marriages that ended The Merchant of Venice are unhappy, Antonio is an obsessive bore reminiscing about his escape from death, but Shylock, freed from religious prejudice, is richer than before and a close friend and confidant of the Doge. Arnold Wesker's play The Merchant (1976) is a reimagining of Shakespeare's story. [12]
the story of the three caskets, as in The Merchant of Venice; the story of Darius and his Three Sons, versified by Thomas Occleve; part of Geoffrey Chaucer's Man of Lawes Tale; a version of the Crescentia cycle, similar to (though more piously phrased than) Le Bone Florence of Rome; [2]
The touring production of “The Merchant of Venice 1936” has been targeted by antisemites, its star revealed. Tracy-Ann Oberman, who has starred in “Doctor Who” and “Friday Night Dinner ...
The Merchant of Venice is not the only Shakespearian play to have been adapted to Māori themes, though it is the only one to have been released as a feature film. Adaptations of Othello , using a Māori cast and usually set during either the Musket Wars or New Zealand Wars of the nineteenth century, have been performed on numerous occasions ...
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