The Merchant of Venice Audiobook (Free)

Another in the fantastic Caedmon Shakespeare series through the 1960s. Though classified like a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain elements with Shakespeare’s other intimate comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic moments, and is best known for Shylock and the well-known ‘pound of flesh’ talk.

Shylock, a greedy Jewish money-lender, offers lost his much loved little girl when she elopes with a man who have belongs to a virulently anti-Semitic society. Shylock looks for a literal ‘pound of flesh’ in the Merchant of Venice – Antonio when he fails to pay the debt. Portia defends Antonio from Shylock’s legal suit. Shylock ends by renouncing his trust and his fortune.