THE MERCHANT OF VENICE.

WITH

INTRODUCTION, TEXT AND NOTES,

GLOSSARY, EXAMINATION QUESTIONS, AND

INDEX TO NOTES.

BY

C. W. CROOK, B.A., B.Sc.,

HEAD MASTER OF THE HIGHER GRADE SCHOOL, WOOD GREEN, N.; EDITOR OF
SHAKESPEARE'S "HENRY V.," "RICHARD II.," "A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S

RALPH, HOLLAND & Co.,

TEMPLE CHAMBERS, E.C.

1907.

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PREFACE.

THE editor has again to thank Messrs. Macmillan & Co. for permission to use the Globe text of the play.

As in former books of this series, every care has been taken to give the student all the help necessary to enable him to form his own judgment on the play, to include everything essential to that end, and to exclude everything unessential.

Illustrative quotations from other plays have been avoided as far as possible, and only such references have been made as are absolutely required for the proper understanding of the play. Such illustrative quotations are of more value when they appear in the student's note-book as the result of his own garnering.

The chapters on "The Story of the Play" and “The Characters in the Play" are given only as examples of the way in which these subjects should be attacked by the student, and his own conclusions on these subjects, founded upon his own thoughtful reading, aided by critical observation of the performances of the best actors, will be of much greater value to him.

C. W. CROOK.