The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598 and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623. In its focus on love and marriage, the play shares certain concerns with Shakespeare's other comedies. Yet its depiction of the tensions between Jews and Christians in early modern Venice - and its highly dramatic trial scene in Act 4 -..