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The House in Amalfi by Elizabeth Adler 63. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
A reread as I'm teaching it once again.
64. Edward II by Christopher Marlowe.
Another reread, although it's been at least five years since the last time I taught the play. It's wonderful, but I wish there was another version ... ... of Malta by Christopher Marlowe.
Reread for a class I am teaching on Shakespeare's Rivals; it will be paired with The Merchant of Venice to demonstrate how WS borrowed and developed ideas. It's always a a bit of a shocker to see how extreme the stereotypes were.
60. Restoration ... thanks! i did another one from The Merchant of Venice, but it's not as long or famous.
mmm, and now that i reread it, i seem to have gotten something wrong. "why it appears to me a foul and..." should be "why it appears no other thing to me than a foul and..." i always screw that part up. ... ... -- and he himself was a civil rights activist since the 1940s.
And I don't think we should ban William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice for its anti-Jewish sentiments -- the greatest Shylock I ever saw was played by a Jewish actor.
What we do need, however, are teachers who are ... ... Comedy of Errors *read*
2. Love's Labour's Lost
3. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
4. The Taming of the Shrew
5. The Merchant of Venice
6. A Midsummer Night's Dream
7. The Merry Wives of Windsor
8. Much Ado About Nothing ... and he makes Shakespeare fun in this one.
If you want to see a really interesting recent film version, take a look at The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons. My students loved it. 11) The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare. Quite complex, leaves a very mixed taste in one's mouth. (I just saw the modern movie version; Al Pacino made Shylock into a heartbreaking character). I definitely have to go back to this one... I know I know!!!! That's The Merchant of Venice!!! 19. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.
Reread for a course I am teaching. I really enjoy teaching this play; there are so many directions to go with it.
20. Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.
Another reread for another course. Not my favorite Marlowe play, ... Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers Is set in Venice and is an endearing moodful tale about a woman who goes on holliday in Venice and goes through a kind of emotional-transformation resolving issues that have haunted her. I did not know what to expect when I started it, but I was ... Shakespeare covered so much more than Tolkien. Othello and The Merchant of Venice, just for a few examples, hit areas of the human experience that I don't see in Tolkien.
In a physical fight: well, I wouldn't back Will.
And hobbits are harmless. (Aren't they?) ... Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Macbeth, The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
... ... The Quality of Mercy was rather good, as is Erica Jong's Serenissima, both, as the titles imply, referencing The Merchant of Venice.
And, no, I do not know what the problem is with author touchstones! ... Norwich's The History Of Venice is one of the better overall histories extant. An excellent literary travel book is The World Of Venice by Jan Morris. Finally William Dean Howells wrote a wonderful book of his time in Venice: Venetian Life. ... by Louisa May Alcott yesterday and The Spirit of the Liturgy by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger this morning. Now I'm onto The Merchant of Venice and an interesting book called The Demographic Crash by Michel Schooyans. On Thursday I hope to pick up The Scarlet Letter at the library. 59. Imposture by Bernard Markovits
60. The Merchant of Venice (reread)
61. Harbor by Lorraine Adams ... is concerned, Erica Jong's Serenissima and Faye Kellerman's The Quality of Mercy (on Shakespeare and The Merchant of Venice. Not quite contemporary, but set in a more recent era, is Henry James' Wings of the Dove.
For fiction set in present-day Venice, try Donna ... ... Williams
12. Richard III--William Shakespeare
13. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead--Tom Stopppard
14. The Merchant of Venice--William Shakespeare
All rereads for class prep. It had been some time since I read R&G Are Dead, and I really enjoyed it (even if the ... I'm starting late, as I just joined LT about five weeks ago, but, fortunately, I keep a book journal and can list what I've read so far in 2007. Pleas post you comment on any of my books--I'd love to talk about them!
January
1. Duty and Desire: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman ... I just returned from a week in London, where I saw two performances at the Globe: Othello and The Merchant of Venice. The latter was by far the better production. I don't know if it's that I've gotten tired of teaching and rereading Othello, or if indeed it is just not a great play. One ... ... Prom with Fauré's suite from his incidental music to a 19th-century adaptation of the Bard's love-and-money comedy The Merchant of Venice. Love in many forms features in the poems by Théophile Gautier which Berlioz had earlier set in Les nuits d'été, his groundbreaking ... The Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre did The Merchant of Venice a few years ago. I went hesitantly, because I was unsure whether it could be done in this day.
I was very pleasantly surprised. Shylock came off more as a victim than as a villain. He was put into an impossible situation, and ... I guess the problem is that many of the strongest women in literature end up tragically... That's why I suggested Portia Merchant of Venice. She's strong, smart, and gets her boyfriend out of a whole heap of trouble by dressing up like a man and pretending to be his lawyer. And she wins! Beatr ... ... as the reader?! still not sure why, but i dind't mind and I think they mostly did.
My compulsary shakespere was Merchant of Venice, and I had Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge. there must have been plenty of others in a five year period but they made little impression. There was ... ... even when I didn't understand/enjoy it. Shakespeare's As You Like It is a case in point. We had already studied The Merchant of Venice at O Grade level, then Macbeth at Higher, and I loved both of these, but for some reason I just couldn't get the multitude of characters in As You ... ... Evil.
I was almost good this weekend. I went to my favourite bookshop Daunt's to buy my mother a copy of Jan Morris Venice as she has just booked her first trip there. Then I somehow fell into the Oxfam shop next more and bought five more books for me. I'm going to have to catalogue them ...
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