The Merchant of Venice is a comedy 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 'pound of flesh', in fact an earlier international folktale plot — AT 890 — that Stith Thompson derives from the work of German Meistersinger..The play's anti-semitic tendency gained more attention after the Holocaust, for example in a production by George Tabori.
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