Merchant of Venice

<p>Get acquainted with Shakespeare’s classic tale of greed and revenge, in this light-hearted and amusing retelling. Bassanio is overjoyed when he finally gets to marry Portia. But, his happiness is short-lived when he is forced to defend his dear friend Antonio, who’s in trouble with an old merchant – intent on getting his pound of flesh.</p> <p>Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.</p> <p>Text type: Fiction from our literary heritage</p> <p>Curriculum links: English: fiction from the English literary heritage</p> <p>This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.</p>