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NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE Antony and CleopatraAs You Like ItThe Comedy of ErrorsCoriolanusHamletHenry IV, Parts One and TwoHenry VJulius CaesarKing LearMacbethMeasure for MeasureThe Merchant of VeniceA Midsummer Nights DreamMuch Ado About NothingOthelloRichard IIIRomeo and JulietSonnetsThe Taming of the ShrewThe TempestTwelfth NightThe Two Gentlemen of VeronaThe Winters Tale
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Theres matter in these sighs, these profound heaves. You must translate.Tis fit we understand them. (Hamlet, 4.1.)
FEAR NOT.
Have you ever found yourself looking at a Shakespeare play, then down at the footnotes, then back up at the play, and still not understanding? You know what the individual words mean, but they dont add up. SparkNotes No Fear Shakespeare will help you break through all that. Put the pieces together with our easy-to-read translations. Soon youll be reading Shakespeares own words fearlesslyand actually enjoying it. No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeares language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern Englishthe kind of English people actually speak today.

When Shakespeares words make your head spin, our translation will help you sort out whats happening, whos saying what, and why.

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SPARKNOTES and NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE are registered trademarks of SparkNotes LLC. Play translation and notes 2003 Spark Publishing Expanded study guide material and cover 2019, 2020 SparkNotes LLC This 2020 edition printed for SparkNotes LLC by Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (including electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without prior written permission from the publisher. sterlingpublishing.com sparknotes.com Cover design by Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy Interior design by Sharon Jacobs
CONTENTS
PART I
LITERATURE GUIDE
NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE
CHAPTER
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CONTEXT
THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITER in all of English literature, William Shakespeare was born in 1564 to a successful middle-class glover in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. sterlingpublishing.com sparknotes.com Cover design by Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy Interior design by Sharon Jacobs
CONTENTS
PART I
LITERATURE GUIDE
NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE
CHAPTER
1
CONTEXT
THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITER in all of English literature, William Shakespeare was born in 1564 to a successful middle-class glover in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.

Shakespeare attended grammar school, but his formal education proceeded no further. In 1582 he married an older woman, Anne Hathaway, and had three children with her. Around 1590 he left his family behind and traveled to London to work as an actor and playwright. Public and critical acclaim quickly followed, and Shakespeare eventually became the most popular playwright in England and part-owner of the Globe Theater. His career bridged the reigns of Elizabeth I (ruled 15581603) and James I (ruled 16031625), and he was a favorite of both monarchs. Indeed, James granted Shakespeares company the greatest possible compliment by bestowing upon its members the title of Kings Men.

Wealthy and renowned, Shakespeare retired to Stratford and died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two. At the time of Shakespeares death, literary luminaries such as Ben Jonson hailed his works as timeless. Shakespeares works were collected and printed in various editions in the century following his death, and by the early eighteenth century, his reputation as the greatest poet ever to write in English was well established. The unprecedented admiration garnered by his works led to a fierce curiosity about Shakespeares life, but the dearth of biographical information has left many details of Shakespeares personal history shrouded in mystery. Some people have concluded from this fact and from Shakespeares modest education that Shakespeares plays were actually written by someone elseFrancis Bacon and the Earl of Oxford are the two most popular candidatesbut the support for this claim is overwhelmingly circumstantial, and the theory is not taken seriously by many scholars. In the absence of credible evidence to the contrary, Shakespeare must be viewed as the author of the thirty-seven plays and 154 sonnets that bear his name.

The legacy of this body of work is immense. A number of Shakespeares plays seem to have transcended even the category of brilliance, becoming so influential as to affect profoundly the course of Western literature and culture ever after. The Merchant of Venice was probably written in either 1596 or 1597, after Shakespeare had written such plays as Romeo and Juliet and Richard III, but before he penned the great tragedies of his later years. Its basic plot outline, with the characters of the merchant, the poor suitor, the fair lady, and the villainous Jew, is found in a number of contemporary Italian story collections, and Shakespeare borrowed several details, such the choice of caskets that Portia inflicts on all her suitors, from preexisting sources. The Merchant of Venices Italian setting and marriage plot are typical of Shakespeares earlier comedies, but the characters of Portia, Shakespeares first great heroine, and the unforgettable villain Shylock elevate this play to a new level. Shylocks cries for a pound of flesh have made him one of literatures most memorable villains, but many readers and playgoers have found him a compelling and sympathetic figure.

The question of whether or not Shakespeare endorses the anti-Semitism of the Christian characters in the play has been much debated. Jews in Shakespeares England were a marginalized group, and Shakespeares contemporaries would have been very familiar with portrayals of Jews as villains and objects of mockery. For example, Christopher Marlowes The Jew of Malta, a bloody farce about a murderous Jewish villain, was a great popular success and would have been fresh in Shakespeares mind as he set about creating his own Jewish character. Shakespeare certainly draws on this anti-Semitic tradition in portraying Shylock, exploiting Jewish stereotypes for comic effect. But Shylock is a more complex character than the Jew in Marlowes play, and Shakespeare makes him seem more human by showing that his hatred is born of the mistreatment he has suffered in a Christian society.

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PLOT OVERVIEW
ANTONIO, A VENETIAN MERCHANT , complains to his friends of a melancholy that he cannot explain.
CHAPTER
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PLOT OVERVIEW
ANTONIO, A VENETIAN MERCHANT , complains to his friends of a melancholy that he cannot explain.

His friend Bassanio is desperately in need of money to court Portia, a wealthy heiress who lives in the nearby city of Belmont. Bassanio asks Antonio for a loan in order to travel in style to Portias estate. Antonio agrees, but is unable to make the loan himself because his own money is all invested in a number of trade ships that are still at sea. Antonio suggests that Bassanio secure the loan from one of the citys moneylenders and name Antonio as the loans guarantor. In Belmont, Portia expresses sadness over the terms of her fathers will, which stipulates that she must marry the man who correctly chooses one of three caskets. None of Portias current suitors is to her liking, and she and her lady-in-waiting, Nerissa, fondly remember a visit paid some time before by Bassanio.

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