The Merchant of Venice

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Excerpt from The Merchant of Venice: A StudyThe Iliad and Odyssey of Homer tingle with the life that was just vanishing when they were written, and yet they give us so much of the human nature all men have that their interest never passes away. The tragedies of Z - Eschylus were part of the history of their time but they have the thews and limbs of the giant spirit of man in them only a tragic struggle could have produced them but the struggle represented that which must recur as long as the human race is human. The Divine Comedy of Dante is full of the petty strifes and jealousies and hatreds of his day, but round them ¿oats a mist of human tears and a sound as of the sorrows of the whole world his age had in it much of what the future was to be, most of the enduring elements of human tragedy and joy. The Gargantua of Rabelais teems with ephemeral jests that are long dead and gone: but there are in it both mockery and serious thought that will live till man is perfect. The Paradise Lost is saturated with the spirit of Puritanism 5 but it is Puritanism risen to its noblest when it feels it must pass away as a political and social power and retire into the hearts and lives of men, it contains the sublimer elements of the unending struggle between evil and good. The Faust of Goethe expresses the sceptical superiority to common beliefs and partialities that marked his own life and time in Germany but it also embodies the everlasting problem of desire and its nemesis and the passionate detachment from creed that belongs to all revolutionary times it gathers up the universal lessons of the French Revolution and writes them in letters of fire upon the records of human history. All the long-lived books of imagination have thus their roots down through the strata of their own age into those that rest upon the foundations of the world.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.