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Read Online The Merchant of Venice SparkNotes No Fear Shakespeare SparkNotes Editors William Shakespeare Books
"Lately, I've been watching various televised versions of Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Richard III to avoid yet-another-detective murder mystery. All was well until I recently turned my attention to viewing some of Shakespeare's "comedies," most of which I have seen in the past, minus "As You Like It" which was more pastoral than comedic, and though it had the talent of of a young Helen Mirren, I found the plot was so contrived that the play struck me as stupid. I am not alone, apparently, as I found a review by Peter Beech in The Guardian entitled "Much Ado About Nothing Much" who also thinks less of Shakespeare than we thought we should. He was pioneering, yes indeed, and I am grateful for some truly shimmering lines. Nevertheless, to me, this play is seemingly pointless."
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The Merchant of Venice SparkNotes No Fear Shakespeare SparkNotes Editors William Shakespeare Books Reviews
- I am a college adjunct faculty English teacher and I wanted a simple edition with notes for my class to read in the fall. I was going to order 20 of these for the class, but I am so glad I first bought one for myself. The paper edition doesn't have any spaces between the speakers, either, so it is difficult to read, even if it were written in language my students, mostly college freshmen, could easily understand. They would give up on this edition. Also, there are absolutely NO NOTES for students that define and explain some of the more obscure vocabulary and written expressions. The text underneath this edition on did NOT say that there were no notes. It is not helpful AT ALL for a new reader of Shakespeare or a reader who only read it in high school unwillingly. I am going to order something else for my class.
- I purchased this to fill in for copies my students had lost last year. The size of the bool lead me to believe that the print size might be a bit easier on the eye. I could not have been more wrong.
Although the pages are large 6x7, the print is minuscule--about 7-point font. That's not the worst. THERE ARE NO LINE NUMBERS OR DEMARCATIONS FOR ACT OR SCENE....Just page after page of tiny font dialogue that begins on page 2, and ends on page 71. - Lately, I've been watching various televised versions of Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Richard III to avoid yet-another-detective murder mystery. All was well until I recently turned my attention to viewing some of Shakespeare's "comedies," most of which I have seen in the past, minus "As You Like It" which was more pastoral than comedic, and though it had the talent of of a young Helen Mirren, I found the plot was so contrived that the play struck me as stupid. I am not alone, apparently, as I found a review by Peter Beech in The Guardian entitled "Much Ado About Nothing Much" who also thinks less of Shakespeare than we thought we should. He was pioneering, yes indeed, and I am grateful for some truly shimmering lines. Nevertheless, to me, this play is seemingly pointless.
- I bought this product as a material for a college course, and when we got to studying it, I quickly realized the copy worse than anything I've seen in print. Not only are there no page numbers, but EVERY SINGLE PAGE is missing multiple lines from the script. No, I'm not exaggerating. There are other issues with the presentation of the dialogues and stage directions as well, but those weren't as disruptive as the major errors with this copy. So, if you just want a cover to display to feign studying Shakespeare, go for it, but honestly you could probably find a better fake for less. If you actually want to study the play and know what happens, buy anywhere else. This is not "As [I] Like It."
- This seems to essentially be Shakespeare's response to The Jew of Malta, so if you've read that, this will seem very familiar to you. However, the language used is far more memorable, the lead character more sympathetic, and the story shaped to fit a different genre. This means that it ends on a far less tragic note, and also that it secures its place in history as one of Shakespeare's masterpieces. Essentially, it is a story of failed revenge, love, and injustice. As to the edition itself, I found it to be greatly helpful in understanding the action in the play. It has a layout which places each page of the play opposite a page of notes, definitions, explanations, and other things needed to understand that page more thoroughly. While I didn't always need it, I was certainly glad to have it whenever I ran into a turn of language that was unfamiliar, and I definitely appreciated the scene-by-scene summaries. Really, if you want to or need to read Shakespeare, an edition such as this is really the way to go, especially until you get more accustomed to it.
- I like the way this book gives both versions of the play. It makes it easier to understand Shakespeare. Currently I am taking an English literature class and it has helped me tremendously. I read the plain English side first and then went back and read the Shakespeare version and I was able to understand it better. Some of the Shakespeare gets lost when put into plain English but it’s easy to pick up the meaning after reading both versions.
- The plot involves a lot of people disguising themselves as the opposite gender but in the end everyone ends up with the one they really love. In that sense it's like a light romantic comedy but it also includes a lot of the great writing that Shakespeare is known for, including many of his most famous lines, such as the "all the world's a stage" monologue, and I hadn't realized this is the play the phrase "motley fool" came from. If you like Shakespeare, this is a must read, and it's entertaining as just a fun play.
This kindle version is well formatted, though no footnotes or line numbers. - Alex Jack had already shared a lot of revealing evidence in his magnificent book “Hamlet by Shakespeare and Marloweâ€. This one is a kind of bible on the authorship problem. Jack’s thorough work on decoding the distinctive double semantics that mark out the whole Shakespeare’s canon leaves no trace of doubt on the name hidden beneath ‘Shakespeare’.
Regardless of the anger of those who try impose the orthodoxian truth, what this book reveals is beyond question.
It is only a matter of time that the world will know that Christopher Marlowe’s will, after his interpreted death, was to shake a spear against those who decided that an illiterate paesant was going to be granted with the authorship of Marlowe’s legacy.
