【圖書簡介】 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.
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【本書目錄】 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