The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice


“Mislike me not for my complexion,
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun,
To whom I am a neighbor and near bred.
Bring me the fairest creature northward born,
Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles,
And let us make incision for your love
To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine.”

--William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice


The first first two lines of this famous quote were included in the frontispiece of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans.

Dromgole, Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, 1914

Table of Contents

Dramatis Personae
ACT I - Scene I
ACT I - Scene II
ACT I - Scene III
ACT II - Scene I
ACT II - Scene II
ACT II - Scene III
ACT II - Scene IV
ACT II - Scene V
ACT II - Scene VI
ACT II - Scene VII
ACT II - Scene VIII
ACT II - Scene IX
ACT III - Scene I
ACT III - Scene II
ACT III - Scene III
ACT III - Scene IV
ACT III - Scene V
ACT IV - Scene I
ACT IV - Scene II
ACT V - Scene I