The Merchant of Venice [Paperback] by Shakespeare, Will

Edited by Rachel Burke with some modernization. Sketches by the young Orson Welles of stage sets, specific actors, costumes, scenes. One of the Shakespeare perennial favorites.

A Shakespeare series can be found through the Bandanna Books catalog page. for eight Shakespeare plays, mainly in the Comedy/Love category, which are written with some transgender cross-dressing, as Rosalind in As You Like It, Viola in Twelfth Night, and Portia in The Merchant of Venice (also Falstaff, briefly). Here are reading copies for eight of the plays:

Hamlet. ISBN 978-0-942208-59-7

As You Like It. ISBN 978-0-942208-35-1

The Merry Wives of Windsor. ISBN 978-0-942208-57-3

Twelfth Night. ISBN 978-0-942208-33-7

The Taming of the Shrew. ISBN 978-0-942208-53-5

The Two Gentlemen of Verona. ISBN 978-0-942208-56-6

Cymbeline. ISBN 978-0-942208-55-9

And two larger books. The compilation of the above plays, plus Merchant of Venice. Seven Plays of William Shakespeare with Transgender Characters, plus Hamlet. ISBN 978-0-942208-48-1

and an expanded Director's edition with lots of space for notes and sketches, schedules for audition, budget, promotion, costumes, set design, and all the details that go into staging a production. Hamlet Director's Playbook. ISBN 978-0-942208-60-3