This new edition of The Merchant of Venice is part of the established Cambridge School Shakespeare series & has been substantially updated with new & revised activities throughout. Remaining faithful to the series' active approach it treats the play as a script to be acted explored & enjoyed. As well as the complete script of The Merchant of Venice you will find a variety of classroom-tested activities an eight-page colour section & an enlarged selection of notes including information on characters performance history & language. ...

A noble but impoverished Venetian asks a friend Antonio for a loan to impress an heiress. His friend agrees but is forced to borrow the sum from a cynical Jewish moneylender Shylock & signs a chilling contract to honour the debt with a pound of his own flesh. A complex & controversial comedy The Merchant of Venice explores prejudice & the true nature of justice. ...

In Venice the merchant Antonio borrows money so his friend can woo a beautiful lady. He agrees that if he doesnt repay Shylock the moneylender Shylock can take a pound of his flesh. When Antonios ships sink & he loses his fortune Shylock insists on the gruesome payment... With Notes on Shakespeare & the Globe Theatre & Love Hate & Mercy in The Merchant of Venice. ...

York Notes Advanced offer a fresh & accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of todays A-level & undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis a range of critical perspectives & wider contexts. ...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company -- a fresh new edition of Shakespeares bittersweet comedy of courtship & ethnic tension THIS EDITION
Includes:: * An introduction to The Merchant of Venice by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate * The play -- with clear & authoritative explanatory notes on each page * A helpful scene-by-scene analysis & key facts about the play * An introduction to Shakespeares career & the Elizabethan theatre * A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productions The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This unique edition presents a historical overview of The Merchant of Venice in performance recommends film versions takes a detailed look at specific productions &

Includes:: interviews with two leading directors & two actors -- Darko Tresnjak David Thacker Anthony Sher & Henry Goodman
- so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented & made our contemporary four centuries after his death.



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DS Wesley Peterson newly arrived in the West Country town of Tradmouth has his hands full when a child goes missing & a young woman is brutally murdered on a lonely cliff path. Then his old friend archaeologist Neil Watson unearths the skeletons of a strangled woman & a new born baby in the cellar of an ancient merchants house nearby. As the investigation continues Wesley begins to suspect that these deaths centuries apart may be linked by age-old motives of jealousy a sexual obsession & desperate longing. & the pressure is on if he is going to prevent a further tragedy... Kate Elliss wonderfully addictive series of West Country set crime novels feature Wesley Peterson one of Devons first black detectives. ...

The barrel should have contained books
- instead it held treasure & a severed head... Gil Cunningham & his old acquaintance Glasgow
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Midwife & healer Agatha Kyteler is regarded as a witch by the superstitious villagers of Wefford yet she has no shortage of callers from the humblest villein to the most elegant & wealthy in the area. But when Agatha's body is found frozen & mutilated in a hedge one wintry morning there seems to be no clues as to who could be responsible. Not until a local youth runs away & a hue & cry is raised. Sir Baldwin Furnshill Keeper of the King's Peace is not convinced of the youth's guilt & soon manages to persuade his close friend Simon Puttock bailiff of Lydford Castle to help him continue with the investigation. As they endeavour to find the true culprit the darker side of the village with its suspicion & jealousy emerges. & what is driving the young foreigner son of a nobleman to disappear down towards the moors? ...

During World War 2 the Merchant Navys main task was to run the German blockade bringing essential food fuel & materials to a besieged nation. The civilian crews came from all parts of the Empire & beyond
- more than one in six were killed. Even less is known about the part played by merchantmen in evacuations from countries that were overrun. They saved over 90 000 troops from Dunkirk & went on to rescue more than 200 000 troops & civilians from other parts of France. When Singapore fell the Merchant Navy again helped many to escape. They moved men & materials for the landings of Madagascar North Africa & the Mediterranean coast of Europe. A British government press release reported that 50 000 volunteer British merchant seamen manned over 1 000 ships for D-Day. They also manned salvage ships rescue tugs & other specialist craft. Merchantmen in Action tells the story of these other achievements. Chapters include Singapore; the Norwegian campaign; Dunkirk; the Channel Islands; Greece & Crete; Sicily & Italy; the Normandy landings; the South of France Gibraltar etc with detailed ship listing & human stories.
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These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods & practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry finds itself faced with perhaps the greatest challenges since Gutenberg. A combination of economic pressures & technological change is forcing publishers to alter their practices & think hard about the future of the books in the digital age. In this book
- the first major study of trade publishing for more than 30 years
- Thompson situates the current challenges facing the industry in an historical context analysing the transformation of trade publishing in the United States & Britain since the 1960s. He gives a detailed account of how the world of trade publishing really works dissecting the roles of publishers agents & booksellers & showing how their practices are shaped by a field that has a distinctive structure & dynamic. This new paperback edition has been thoroughly revised & updated to take account of the most recent developments including the dramatic increase in ebook sales & its implications for the publishing industry & its future.

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