Global Shakespeare’s: Re-Creating the Merchant of Venice- (13-18 years old)

$48

Learn how performance of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice provides occasions for creative, thoughtful communication across personal, historical, and cultural boundaries on topics including language and theatricality, gender relations, and religious prejudice.

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William Shakespeare is the most performed playwright on the globe; this course brings his play The Merchant of Venice into the 21st century by comparing multiple recent performances, from film and television staging’s to an international production that marked the first performance of the play in the former Jewish Ghetto of Venice, Italy.