The Writing and Publication of The Merchant of Venice .
Stories which Shakespeare used in The Merchant of Venice
Time Duration of The Merchant of Venice

Comments upon the Characters.

Glimpses of Life in Shakespeare's Time found in The

Merchant of Venice

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Familiar Passages in The Merchant of Venice

What we know about Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Plays and Poems

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Portia

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Shylock and Jessica .

The Casket Scene

The Trial Scene

Shakespeare's House at Stratford-on-Avon

The Room where Shakespeare was Born.

Anne Hathaway's Cottage at Shottery

Interior of Anne Hathaway's Cottage

Holy Trinity Parish Church, Stratford-on-Avon

Inscription on Shakespeare's Tomb .

Inscription on Shakespeare's Monument, Trinity Church, Strat

SHAKESPEARE

WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honored bones The labor of an age in piléd stones?

Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid

Under a star-ypointing pyramid ?

Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,

What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment

Hast built thyself a live-long monument.

For whilst to the shame of slow-endeavoring art
Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart
Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued book
Those Delphic lines with deep impression took,
Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving,
Dost make us marble with too much conceiving;
And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

JOHN MILTON.