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… the king and the political problems of the period; “The Merchant of Venice” ( 1596 ), about the male friendship and the love in comparison of the…

… opere: Julius Caesar, Hamlet, macbeth, the merchant of Venice and poems. Anteprima del riassunto… in the works of the other writers. -Literary evidence – the style, the characterization, the plot and the metrical skill of the…