Current study refers to the bond and its meaning as an element of civil law in Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice", which will be interpreted legally. The bond will be discussed as a unique legal element in the text and beyond it, since it can be considered as another means of historic resource for the type of a bond of the time. Additionally, another purpose is to discuss the bond taking into consideration geographical aspect, trying to find similar evidences that existed both in English and in Venetian laws.

In order to gain credible results for the proposed aspects the tools of methodology are the following; critical discourse analysis, comparative analysis and the system of written text (systeme de l'ecrit)- will be used.

Within the results, it can be mentioned that the objective is to find out Shakespeare's legal, social and economic knowledge on Venice through interpreting the bond legally, that is to analyze the bond within the components, as a result it'll be very resourceful for the stakeholders to have knowledge on bond taking into consideration two aspects-time and geography.