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These popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Each note, each gloss, each commentary reflects the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of the text in performance. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be empowered...
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Del Rey
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"A fresh and imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale... Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father is not a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has left his family on the edge of poverty--until Miryem intercedes. Hardening her heart, she sets out to retrieve what is owed, and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold. But when an ill-advised boast brings her to...
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Shylock Trading Ltd
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English
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Shylock has grown wealthy through money-lending, the only profession open to Jewish businessmen of the time, but faces indignity and danger when he ventures beyond the Jewish quarter. In the same city, though in a different world, lives Antonio, a Christian merchant beset by worry over the fate of his trading vessels and his increasing isolation from his best friend Bassanio. The younger man has fallen in love with the beautiful Portia, and seeks...
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Simon & Schuster
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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English
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"The life and times of the wealthiest man who ever lived--Jacob Fugger--the Renaissance banker who revolutionized the art of making money and established the radical idea of pursuing wealth for its own sake. Jacob Fugger lived in Germany at the turn of the sixteenth century, the grandson of a peasant. By the time he died, his fortune amounted to nearly two percent of European GDP. Not even John D. Rockefeller had that kind of wealth. Most people become...
6) Octubre
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New Yorker Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
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Español
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"Clemente y Sofía son personas muy solitarias y son vecinos. Su relación comienza cuando Clemente descubre una pequeña nińa recién nacida abandonada y Sofía se encarga de la nińa y de su hogar mientras él busca a la madre de la nińa. Con la llegada de estos dos nuevos seres a su vida, Clemente tendrá ocasión de cuestionarse acerca de sus relaciones con los demás."--http://cinespacio.pe/octubre
Clemente is a moneylender and man of few...
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