Description In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia but lacks the necessary funds.
Harold Bloom , Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University, is the author of many books, including The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine..
He lives in Lafayette.
His most recent of many edited and translated publications is Das Nibelungenlied , published by Yale University Press.
About the Author Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Emeritus and professor of English emeritus, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Portia cleverly intervenes, and all ends well (except of course for Shylock).
When Antonio\'s business falters, repayment becomes impossible--and by the terms of the loan agreement, Shylock is able to demand a pound of Antonio\'s flesh.
He turns to his Merchant friend, Antonio, who is forced to borrow from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender.
Description In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia but lacks the necessary funds
