The merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
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The merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
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eng
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fiction
Main title
The merchant of Venice
Medium
electronic resource
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William Shakespeare
Summary
Naxos Audio presents a fully-dramatized production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Bassanio desires to court the lovely Portia, but he simply cannot afford such wooing. In order to help Bassanio, Antonio, a Venetian merchant, borrows three thousand ducats from Jewish moneylender Shylock. However, Shylock has one condition upon lending Antonio the money: if the loan goes unpaid, Antonio will entitle him with one pound of the merchant's own flesh
Target audience
adult
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