Schooling Online
Shakespeare Today: The Merchant of Venice - Plot Summary
Poor Bassanio needs cash – fast. How else can he woo the beautiful and wealthy Portia? Luckily, his best friend Antonio, a merchant, helps Bassanio out by striking a dodgy deal with a local Jewish money-lender named Shylock. Shylock...
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Shakespeare Today: The Merchant of Venice - Context
Watch this video to learn about Shakespeare’s fascinating world, and its influence on the play The Merchant of Venice. Watch the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras come to life and develop a deeper understanding of attitudes towards race and...
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Royal Shakespeare Company: The Merchant of Venice (2015): Act 3, Scene 1
This video clip is of Shylock who is angered by society's anti-Semitism and pleads that Jews are human too from Act 3, Scene 1 of Royal Shakespeare Company's production of The Merchant of Venice. [1:25]
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Tes: Character Film: Portia the Merchant of Venice (2015)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This video clip is Patsy Ferran discussing the character Portia in the Royal Shakespeare Company's (2015) production of The Merchant of Venice in which she dresses as a male lawyer [1:19]
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Tes: The Merchant of Venice (2015) Filmed Synopsis
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is Director Polly Findlay providing a video synopsis of The Merchant of Venice. [1:39]
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Tes: The Merchant of Venice: Silent Shakespeare
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a 1910 silent film of an early Italian adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice which includes scenes shot on location. It is accompanied by teacher notes and ideas for its use in the...