Title: The Merchant of Venice (Folio 1, 1623)

Author: William Shakespeare

Coordinating Editor: Michael Best

Research Assistants: Tanya Gough, Beth Norris

Editorial principles and publishing history: The transcripts presented here follow the Folio as exactly as an electronic version permits; spelling follows the original, with no attempt to correct errors; word spacing is normalized; and modern forms are substituted for letters and ligatures that have no modern equivalent in current browsers (for example, the long 's').

This publication has been proofread, but has not yet been peer reviewed.