The Merchant of Venice Navigator Home

• Links: Throughout The Merchant of Venice Navigator stage directions are linked to the text of the play. These links are numerous, so that you can easily move back and forth--using the arrow buttons on your browser--between a summary and the text.
• Copying Text: The Merchant of Venice Navigator is protected by copyright, but you can copy anything in the program for legitimate academic purposes. To copy, use the same commands as you use in your word processing program. If you keep a word processing document open, you can easily click over to the document window and paste what you've copied, then click back to The Merchant of Venice Navigator.
• The Text: The text of The Merchant of Venice that is included in this program is a version of the "Moby" electronic text, which you can find on-line at http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
• Citation: The Columbia Guide to Online Style recommends the following format for "Humanities Style" bibliographic listing of a electronic source:

  Author's Last Name, First Name.

  "Title of Document." Title of Complete Work [if applicable]. Version or File Number [if applicable]. Document date or date of last revision [if different from access date]. Protocol and address, access path or directories (date of access).

  Here's a sample for The Merchant of Venice Navigator:

  Weller, Philip.

  "The Merchant of Venice Navigator: Scene Index." The Merchant of Venice Navigator. <http://clicknotes.com/merchant/MerchantTextSceneIndex.html> ().

• Line Numbers: In the text of The Merchant of Venice, the line numbers will correspond very well with the line numbers in modern double-column editions of Shakespeare, such as The Riverside Shakespeare, edited by G. Blakemore Evans, or The Complete Works of Shakespeare, edited by David Bevington, but be sure to check all quotations taken from The Merchant of Venice Navigator against a text approved by your instructor or editor.
• The Author: Philip Weller is Professor of English at Eastern Washington University, in Cheney, Washington, USA.