William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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Portrait of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice — Appendix C (1923)

The text of the present volume is, by permission, based upon that of the Oxford Shakespeare, compared with the First Folio and Quarto texts. The following changes from the Oxford text have been made:
1. The stage directions are those of the First Folio, necessary additional words being inserted in square brackets.
2. The punctuation has been occasionally altered, and the spelling of a few words normalized; e.g., villainy (villany) , nobody (no body) , everywhere (every where) .
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