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YOU'VE NEVER READ A LOVE STORY AS TWISTED AS THIS

who rapes her

both of them desperate in their different ways to climb clear of their wrong beginnings

and the metallic rasp of his seldom-used voice still sounds in her dreams

Merchant of Venice Michael J. Gelb to technologyThis edition of The Merchant of Venice, based on a fresh examination of the early editions, includes an exceptionally lucid and accessible introduction which addresses Shakespeare's attitude toward Semitism and establishes the cultural, historical, and literary context in which Shakespearewrote the play. An interesting range of production photographs and drawings of Renaissance merchants and Jews, and a survey of the play's stage history ranging from