Merchant of Venice, The, A Longman Cultural Edition

<p><strong>List of Illustrations.</strong></p> <p><strong>About Longman Cultural Editions.</strong></p> <p><strong>About this Editon.</strong></p> <p><strong>Introduction.</strong></p> <p><strong>Note on Sources.</strong></p> <p><strong>Table of Dates.</strong></p> <p><strong>The Merchant of Venice.</strong></p> <p><strong>CONTEXTS.</strong></p> <p><strong>I. ON THE RIALTO AND IN THE GHETTO: VENICE AND THE JEWS OF VENICE.</strong></p> <p><strong>1. Venice headnote.</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p>Thomas Coryate, from Crudities (1611).</p> <p>Lewis Lewkenor, from “To the Reader,” prefaced to his translation of Gasparo Contarini, The Commonwealth and Government of Venice (1599).</p> <p>Fynes Moryson, from An Itinerary, “The Justice, Laws, and Judgments in the State of Venice” (1617).</p> <p><strong>2. Jews in England and Venice.</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p>Raphael Holinshed from Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Wales (1587).</p> <p>Martin Luther, On the Jews and their Lies (1543).</p> <p>William Camden, Annals, or The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, Late Queen of England (1625, 1630).</p> <p>Thomas Coryate, from Crudities (1611) and Constantinopolitan Observations (1625).</p> <p>Fynes Moryson, from An Itinerary (1617).</p> <p>Robert Wilson, The Three Ladies of London (1584).</p> <p>Christopher Marlowe, from The Jew of Malta (1590).</p> <p>From The Play of the Salutation and Conception (15th Century).</p> <p>William Shakespeare, from Measure for Measure Act 2 scene 2.</p> <p><strong>II. USURY HEADNOTE.</strong></p> <p>Seneca, from On Benefits (mid-First Century AD).</p> <p>Philip Stubbes, from The Anatomy of Abuses, “Great Usury in Ailgna”.</p> <p>Francis Bacon, “Of Usury” (1601).</p> <p>Robert Wilson, from Three Ladies of London (1584).</p> <p>Thomas Wilson, from A Discourse upon Usury (1572).</p> <p><strong>III. SHYLOCK: PERFORMANCE AND RECEPTION.</strong></p> <p>William Hazlitt, from Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (1817).</p> <p>Heinrich Heine, from “Notes on Shakespeare's Plays.</p> <p>William Winter from Shakespeare on the Stage (1911).</p> <p>Reviews of Shylock performed in Yiddish by Jacob Adler (1903).</p> <p>Review of Maurice Schwartz as Shylock (1930 ).</p> <p>Desmond MacCarthy, “Shylocks Past and Present” (1920).</p> <p><strong>Friendship and Marriage.</strong></p> <p>“Say How I Loved You” (4.1.273).</p> <p>Michel de Montaigne, “Of Friendship” (1603).</p> <p>Francis Bacon, “Of Friendship” (1601).</p> <p>William Shakespeare Sonnets 20 and 29.</p> <p><strong>Women and marriage</strong> headnote.</p> <p>From Certain Sermons or Homilies (1563), “Of Matrimony”.</p> <p>Richard Mulcaster, from Positions. . . Necessary for the Training up of Children (1581).</p> <p>“Mark the Music”.</p> <p>Boethius, On Music (c. 503).</p> <p>Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's The Dream of Scipio (c. 430).</p> <p>Baldassare Castiglione, from The Courtier (1528).</p> <p>Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621).</p> <p>Philip Stubbes, from The Anatomy of Abuses (1583).</p> <p><strong>Suggestion for Further Reading.</strong></p>