内容简介
This edition of The Merchant of Venice provides:
A clear and authoritative text.
Detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text.
A full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play.
Appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts.
Offering a wealth of helpful and incisive commen-tary,The Arden Shakespeare is finest editon of Shakes peare you can find.
目录
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES
INTRODUCTION
I. The text
2. Date and occasion: with consideration of the
poetic style
3. Sources and antecedents
II. THE PLAY
I. The exposition
2. Design and plot
3. Characters and comedy
4. Lyricism, music and dance
5. Setting: woodland and fairyland; moon
6. The principal themes
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
APPENDIX I Source materials
APPENDIX II Four textual cruces
APPENDIX III The mislined verse in Qi, v. i.
APPENDIX IV Quince's Prologue (v. i. Io8--I6)
rightly punctuated
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