Merchant of VeniceHere are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own. Each play is presented with Shakespeare's original lines on each left-hand page, and a modern, easy-to-understand "translation" on the facing right-hand page. All dramas are complete, with every original Shakespearian line, and a full-length modern rendition of the text. These invaluable teaching-study guides also include:
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... Belmont is a lady richly left , And she is fair , and , fairer than that word , Of wondrous virtues : sometimes from her eyes I did receive fair speechless messages . Her name is Portia , nothing undervalued To Cato's daughter , Brutus ...
... Belmont is a lady richly left , And she is fair , and , fairer than that word , Of wondrous virtues : sometimes from her eyes I did receive fair speechless messages . Her name is Portia , nothing undervalued To Cato's daughter , Brutus ...
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... Belmont there is a rich heiress . She is beautiful . And what's better , she has wonderful qualities . She has shown by her looks that she favors me . She is called Portia- no way inferior to Cato's daughter , Portia , the one who ...
... Belmont there is a rich heiress . She is beautiful . And what's better , she has wonderful qualities . She has shown by her looks that she favors me . She is called Portia- no way inferior to Cato's daughter , Portia , the one who ...
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... Belmont and the beautiful Portia . Go at once and ask around . I'll do the same . See where money is to be had . Borrow it on the strength of my credit or my personal friendships - I don't mind . ( They go in search of Bassanio's loan ] ...
... Belmont and the beautiful Portia . Go at once and ask around . I'll do the same . See where money is to be had . Borrow it on the strength of my credit or my personal friendships - I don't mind . ( They go in search of Bassanio's loan ] ...
Contents
Original text and modern version | 17 |
Activities | 212 |
Structure | 222 |
Copyright | |
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Act 1 Scene Aeson answer Arragon bag-pipe Bellario better bond casket choose chooseth Christian clerk comes court daughter dear deserves devil doctor doth Duke Exeunt Exit eyes fair Fair ladies father fool forfeit fortune Genoa gentle give gold Gratiano hand haste hath hear heart heaven Henry Condell honor house at Belmont husband Jessica Jew's Jew's house justice King's Men lady Lancelot Gobbo leave live look Lord Bassanio Lorenzo madam married masque Merchant of Venice mercy merry Morocco never night oath Old Gobbo Padua play Portia's house pound of flesh pray thee Prince Salerio and Solanio Scene 1 lines Servant shadow's bliss Shakespeare ship Shylock Shylock's house Signior Antonio soul speak speech stand Stephano swear sweet tell theater there's things thou three thousand ducats tonight Tripoli Tubal turn What's wife William Shakespeare words