The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare, is part of the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare series. This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world’s foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastan of Columbia University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that Shakespeare wrote.
Each volume in the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare includes:
Featuring one of Shakespeare’s most complex and memorable villains, The Merchant of Venice presents the struggle to find mercy in a world marked by rivalry, cruelty, and prejudice. The editor, Julie Crawford, restores the play to its historical context, enabling us to better understand how Shakespeare’s original audience would have viewed Shylock.
