Merchant of Venice
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To develop an understanding the key areas of the play, including:
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| Date: | 02/06/2011 |
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This open education resource is designed to help high school students studying the play The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. The main areas of study are:
- Introduction
- Character and Characterisation
- Important Events and turning points
- Setting
- Imagery patterns
- Language
- Key quotations
- Close reading
- Important ideas
- Review
This resource is designed to be interactive and you to contribute your ideas. If you can think of other good questions to ask, add them to the activities. If you see an error, feel free to correct it.
Shylock After the Trial, describing Act II, Scene vii
Antonio reproaching Shylock
English actor Charles Macklin as Shylock
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| The Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic scenes, and is best known for Shylock and the famous 'Hath not a Jew eyes' speech. The title character is the merchant Antonio, not the Jewish moneylender Shylock, who is the play's most prominent and most famous character. This extract is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. It uses material from the article "Merchant of Venice", retrieved 1 June 2011. |
