The Merchant of Venice

About this book

Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is a sharply drawn, emotionally charged play that throws the pragmatic world of commerce into collision with love, prejudice, and revenge amid the glittering canals and courts of Renaissance Venice. When a moneylender insists on chilling collateral for a desperate loan, the fallout ripples through friendships and romances, exposing the fragile line between law and mercy and forcing characters to confront the costs of principle. With brilliant language, comic flourishes, and searing moral ambiguity, the play entertains while provoking readers to wrestle with justice, loyalty, and the complicated motives that drive us.