
By Joan Ozark Holmer
The service provider of Venice, Shakespeare's most often played and at present so much debatable comedy, keeps to confront in its level and significant heritage the continuing debate over its creative harmony. Six chapters discover the measure of dramatic integrity Shakespeare achieves via unifying the play's many difficult offerings via a tightly-knit interaction of contrarieties and correspondences in constitution, language, characters and concepts. attractive the play's broad physique of feedback, this booklet contextualizes the main provocative questions raised by way of the play and gives massive new proof approximately Shakespeare's attainable assets and his cutting edge use of them, specifically usury and merchantry, Jew and Christian, biblical and classical allusion, level legislations and verbal-visual symbols.
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