"This edition includes: An introduction to The Merchant of Venice by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate; The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page; A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play; An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre; and A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productions." "The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This unique edition presents a historical overview of The Merchant of Venice in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with two leading directors and two actors - Darko Tresnjak, David Thacker, Anthony Sher and Henry Goodman - so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' -- four centuries after his death." --Book Jacket.
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