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THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by William Shakespeare - FULL AudioBook | Greatest Audio Books
The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic scenes, and is best known for Shylock and the famous "Hath not a Jew eyes?" speech. Also notable is Portia's speech about "the quality of mercy".
The title character is the merchant Antonio, not the Jewish moneylender Shylock, who is the play's most prominent and most famous character. This is made explicit by the title page of the first quarto: The most excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreme cruelty of Shylock the Jew towards the Merchant.... (Summary adapted from wikipedia.org - attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Merchant_of_Venice&action=history )
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Chapter listing and length:
0 - Dramatis Personae -- 00:02:27
1 - Act 1 -- 00:25:40
2 - Act 2 -- 00:38:35
3 - Act 3 -- 00:36:50
4 - Act 4 -- 00:26:29
5 - Act 5 -- 00:16:15
Cast:
Duke of Venice: Filippo Gioachin
Prince of Morocco: Mark F. Smith
Prince of Arragon: David Nicol
Antonio: David O'Connell
Bassanio: mb
Salarino: Laurie Anne Walden
Salanio: Rosalind Wills
Gratiano: David Leeson
Lorenzo: Aaron Elliott
Shylock: etk
Tubal: Carolyn Frances
Launcelot Gobbo: L. Lambert Lawson
Old Gobbo: David Lawrence
Leonardo: Laurie Anne Walden
Balthasar: David Lawrence
Stephano: Lucy Perry
Portia: Arielle Lipshaw
Nerissa: Megan Kunkel
Jessica: Elizabeth Klett
Clerk in court: Ernst Pattynama
Portia's servant: Joshua B. Christensen
Narrator: Dennis Sayers
Audio edited by: Elizabeth Klett
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Total running time: 2:26:16
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