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THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
EDITED BY
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS
NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Copyright, 1923
By Yale University Press
Printed in the United States of America
First published, February, 1923
Second printing, March, 1938
Third printing, December, 1943
Fourth printing, March, 1946
Fifth printing, September, 1950
Sixth printing, January, 1954
Seventh printing, February, 1956
Eighth printing, November, 1957
The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe
and
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.
Your Marlowe's page I close, my Shakespeare's ope.
How welcome—after gong and cymbal's din—
The continuity, the long, slow slope,
And vast curves of the gradual violin!
—William Watson.
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
| PAGE | |
| The Text | 1 |
| Act I | 1 |
| Act II | 19 |
| Act III | 44 |
| Act IV | 68 |
| Act V | 85 |
| Notes | 97 |
| Appendix A. Sources of the Play | 106 |
| Appendix B. The History of the Play | 111 |
| Appendix C. The Text of the Present Edition | 113 |
| Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading | 114 |
| Index of Words Glossed | 160 |
The facsimile opposite represents the title-page of the Elizabethan Club copy of the genuine 1600 Quarto of 'The Merchant of Venice.'
THE YALE SHAKESPEARE
Edited by
Wilbur L. CrossTucker Brooke
Published under the Direction
of the
Department of English, Yale University,
on the Fund
Given to the Yale University Press in 1917
by the Members of the
Kingsley Trust Association
To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary
of the Founding of the Society
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1927.
The author died in 1943, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.