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This beautiful novel is written by William Shakespeare

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The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Although classified as a comedy in the First Folio, and while it shares certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps more remembered for its dramatic scenes, and is best known for the character of Shylock. The title character is the merchant Antonio, not the Jewish moneylender Shylock, who is the play's most prominent and more famous villain. Though Shylock is a tormented character, he is also a tormentor, so whether he is to be viewed with disdain or sympathy is up to the audience (as influenced by the interpretation of the play's director and lead actors). As a result, The Merchant of Venice is often classified as one of Shakespeare's problem plays.

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The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

Published: 1598

Categorie(s): Fiction, Drama, Comedy

Source: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/ About Shakespeare:

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. Next he wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest examples in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime, and in 1623 two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's. Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry". In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are consistently performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world. Source: Wikipedia

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Act I

SCENE I. Venice. A street.

> Enter ANTONIO, SALARINO, and SALANIO

ANTONIO

> In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:

> It wearies me; you say it wearies you;

> But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,

> What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,

> I am to learn;

> And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,

> That I have much ado to know myself.

SALARINO

> Your mind is tossing on the ocean;

> There, where your argosies with portly sail,

> Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood,

> Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,

> Do overpeer the petty traffickers,

> That curtsy to them, do them reverence,

> As they fly by them with their woven wings.

SALANIO

> Believe me, sir, had I such venture forth,

> The better part of my affections would

> Be with my hopes abroad. I should be still

> Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind,

> Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads;

> And every object that might make me fear

> Misfortune to my ventures, out of doubt

> Would make me sad.

SALARINO

> My wind cooling my broth

> Would blow me to an ague, when I thought