The Merchant of Venice

With a foreword by Lev Rosen, author of the Evander Mills series and You've Goth My Heart.'All that glisters is not gold.'Rediscover Shakespeare's tale of bitterness and retribution.Bitterness begets blood.Bassiano is in love with the gorgeous heiress Portia! Alas, he's too poor to pass the suitors' test set by her father. Fortunately, Bassiano's best friend, Antonio, steps up and borrows the money on his behalf. Unfortunately, Antonio can't pay it back. The fee? A pound of flesh.As the pressure reaches boiling point, Antonio needs to find one hell of a lawyer ...The Merchant of Venice is Shakespeare's iconic tale of greed and justice.Discover STAGED, a limited collection of Shakespeare's unabridged plays that celebrates the genius of the Bard and the tropes that continue to delight YA readers to this day.Explore the rest of the STAGED collection:As You Like It - With a foreword by Talia Hibbert
Hamlet - With a foreword by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Macbeth - With a foreword by Kat Delacorte
A Midsummer Night's Dream - With a foreword by Becky Albertalli
Much Ado About Nothing - With a foreword by Holly Bourne
Romeo and Juliet - With a foreword by Jennifer Niven
Julius Caesar - With a foreword by Simon James Green
King Lear - With a foreword by Manjeet Mann
The Merchant of Venice - With a foreword by Lev Rosen
Othello - With a foreword by Malorie Blackman
The Tempest - With a foreword by Katherine Webber
Twelfth Night - With a foreword by Bea Fitzgerald