The Merchant of Venice

If you hurry to the Broad Stage before April 24, you might just catch the best Merchant of your life -- The Merchant of Venice, that is, Shakespeare's tragi-comic masterpiece, often performed, but rarely performed well.

Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: A 'Merchant' for Modern Times Marc Porter Zasada 2011

If you hurry to the Broad Stage before April 24, you might just catch the best Merchant of your life -- The Merchant of Venice, that is, Shakespeare's tragi-comic masterpiece, often performed, but rarely performed well.

Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: A 'Merchant' for Modern Times Marc Porter Zasada 2011

Fear of bringing up the “greedy moneylender” controversy is why universities refuse to teach The Merchant of Venice, just as fear of the “uncontrolled thug” stereotype led to “Othello, the WASP with anger issues of Venice”.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past 2010

Mike Schilling: Fear of bringing up the “greedy moneylender” controversy is why universities refuse to teach The Merchant of Venice, just as fear of the “uncontrolled thug” stereotype led to “Othello, the WASP with anger issues of Venice”.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past 2010

In 1788, at a performance of The Merchant of Venice at the National Theater, an actor came out before the curtain went up and apologized for the way Shakespeare portrayed Jews in his play.

Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

This beautiful piece on mercy is from Shakespeare's 1600 play, The Merchant of Venice, when Portia speaks to Shylock in Act IV, Scene I.

Archive 2008-10-01 Angcat 2008

The materials we have looked at this year—The Merchant of Venice, The Poisonwood Bible, the poems and essays and stories we read together—may have seemed challenging to you in various ways, but, to be honest, on a scale of 1-10 in terms of difficulty, these are somewhere in the 4-5 range.

Archive 2008-01-01 Bruce Schauble 2008

The materials we have looked at this year—The Merchant of Venice, The Poisonwood Bible, the poems and essays and stories we read together—may have seemed challenging to you in various ways, but, to be honest, on a scale of 1-10 in terms of difficulty, these are somewhere in the 4-5 range.

An Open Letter to My Sophomore Students – January 2008 Bruce Schauble 2008

You wrote a novel modeled on King Lear; I wrote a novel modeled on Shakespeare's sonnets and The Merchant of Venice - Serenissima or Shylock's Daughter.

Erica Jong: An Open Letter from Erica Jong to Jane Smiley (On the ghettoization of female writers) 2008

This beautiful piece on mercy is from Shakespeare's 1600 play, The Merchant of Venice, when Portia speaks to Shylock in Act IV, Scene I.

Mercy Angcat 2008