"The Merchant of Venice" turns on the moneylender Shylock and his bond of a "pound of flesh," resolved by Portia's celebrated courtroom defence. A comedy shadowed by questions of justice, mercy, and prejudice, it remains among Shakespeare's most debated plays.
Sources for William Shakespeare — The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare — The Merchant of Venice in William Shakespeare
Held in the William Shakespeare chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- William Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet (1595)
- William Shakespeare — A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
- William Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing (1598)
- William Shakespeare — Julius Caesar (1599)
- William Shakespeare — Hamlet (1600)
- William Shakespeare — Twelfth Night (1601)
- William Shakespeare — Othello (1603)
- William Shakespeare — King Lear (1606)
- William Shakespeare — Macbeth (1606)
- William Shakespeare — Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609)
- William Shakespeare — The Tempest (1611)