The Merchant of Venice Author:Shakesphere Unique Features Of The Signet Classic Shakesphere: Special Introduction to the play by the editor, Kenneth Myrick, Tufts University. General discussion of Shakesphere's life, world, and theater by the general editor of the signet classic Shakesphere series, Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. A note on the sources from which Shakesphere derived ... more »The Merchant Of Venice. Dramatic crititicism from the past and present: commentaries by Nicholas Rowe, William Hazlitt, Elmer Edgar Stoll, and an anonymous review of Henry Irving's important production. Text and comentaries printed in the clearest, most readable type. Names of each speaker given in full. Detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page of the play keyed to the numbered lines of the text. Textural note. Extensive bibliography.« less