NAVIGATION:
Index of Dr. Weller's Class Materials
Index of Shakespeare Materials
The Merchant of Venice
Above: Gareth Armstrong in a Shylock mask
Another Comedy by Shakespeare
About Love and Marriage
A witty & wise heroine
A clown or two (the Gobbos)
. . . And a unforgettable blocking character -- Shylock
Jews in England in Shakespeare's time . . . were purely imaginary
Expelled in 1290
The Problem of this time vs. "back then."
A Jew in Chaucer's time:
"The Prioress's Tale"
Marlowe's
The Jew of Malta
Shylock from the time of Edmund Kean (1787-1833)
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Hamlet's Long Speech to the Players
