TY - BOOK AU - Shakespeare,William AU - Guizot,François TI - Le marchand de Venise AV - PR PY - 2007/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Comedy plays KW - Jews -- Italy -- Drama KW - Moneylenders -- Drama KW - Venice (Italy) -- Drama N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Marchand_de_Venise; Release date is 2007-03-09; Produced by Paul Murray, Rénald Lévesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr). This file is gratefully uploaded to the PG collection in honor of Distributed Proofreaders having posted over 10,000 ebooks; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Le marchand de Venise" by William Shakespeare is a play written between 1596 and 1598. When a Venetian merchant defaults on a loan from Jewish moneylender Shylock, the penalty demanded is a pound of flesh. Though classified as a comedy, the play is best remembered for its dramatic intensity and Shylock's character. It features famous speeches on humanity and mercy, while sparking ongoing debate about antisemitism through its portrayal of legal rights versus human dignity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20773 ER -