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Preface
This edition of The Merchant of Venice is designed to make available a readable text of one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. In the centuries since Shakespeare many changes have occurred in the meanings of words, and some clarification of Shakespeare's vocabulary may be helpful. To provide the reader with necessary notes in the most accessible format, we have placed them on the pages facing the text that they explain. We have tried to make these notes as brief and simple as possible. Preliminary to the text we have also included a brief statement of essential information about Shakespeare and his stage. Readers desiring more detaned information should refer to the books suggested in the references, and if still further information is needed, the bibliographies in those books will provide tiie necessary clues to the literatiure of the subject.
L. B. w.
V. A. L.
April 5, 1957