The book Shakespeare's Comedy of the Merchant of Venice was written by author Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Here you can read free online of Shakespeare's Comedy of the Merchant of Venice book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Shakespeare's Comedy of the Merchant of Venice a good or bad book?
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156 Act I. GRAMMATICAL NOTES. 157 SCENE II. 2. Aweary. The prefix a before noons represents some con- tracted preposition, as in or on ; e.g., asleep, alive. Cf . in line 67 below, a capering. Before the adjective here it would rather seem a contraction of the intensive prefix of.— Abbott, § 24. (See close of section.) 15. Easier. Shakespeare often uses the adjective for the adverb. — Abbott, § 1. 25. Cannot . . . nor . . . none. In Elizabethan English, as in that of the earlier centuries, the ...more negatives the more emphasis. — Abbott, §§ 406, 408. 26. Your. Note the use of the second person pronouns through- out the scene. "Thou is the language of a lord to a servant, of an equal to an equal, and expresses also companionship, love, permission, defiance, scorn, threatening ; whilst ye is the language of a servant to a lord, and of compliment, and further expresses honour, submission, entreaty." — Skeat. — Abbott, §§ 231, 232. 31. Who you. If the reading of Q x (see textual notes) be pre- ferred, who is plainly nominative.
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