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• Merchant of Venice, The
  Merchant of Venice, The

  noun

  a comedy (1596?) by Shakespeare.
• The Merchant of Venice
  The Merchant of Venice

  A comedy by William Shakespeare. The most memorable character is Shylock, a greedy moneylender who demands from the title character “a pound of flesh” (see also pound of flesh) as payment for a debt.

Merchant of Venice, The

American  

noun

1. a comedy (1596?) by Shakespeare.

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The Merchant of Venice Cultural  

1. A comedy by William Shakespeare. The most memorable character is Shylock, a greedy moneylender who demands from the title character “a pound of flesh” (see also pound of flesh) as payment for a debt.

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Merchant of Venice, The The Merchant of Venice

Merchant of Venice, The, 61, 62, 77, 78, 109, 110.

From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

Merchant of Venice The spheres were conceived to be crystalline or glassy fabrics arranged over one another like a nest of bowls reversed.

From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Bulfinch, Thomas

His productions included a modern-dress staging of The Merchant of Venice, with Laurence Olivier as Shylock.

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2019

Simply Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice Al Pacino and Geoffrey Rush star in a staged reading of the Bard’s classic tale in this benefit for the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2019

You really need to take another look at "The Merchant of Venice".

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2017

I doubt he would allude to The Merchant of Venice, even if he doesn’t remember the name of the play.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2017

“First we’ll read The Merchant of Venice aloud together, so that I can be sure that you are following the dialogue. Afterward, you’ll be reading on your own.”

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt