Playing Humanity: Comparing Shylock and Antonio

Fantastic, multimedia introduction to Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Rich graphics make the intellectual material more accessable. Sections discuss the anti-semitism and perception of usury during Shakespeare's time, as well as the...

The Merchant of Venice is the focus of twenty multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions in this quiz that begins by focusing on characters. Quotes and specific objects in the play factor in to later questions.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This article focuses on the different adaptations of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, a powerful and complex play that is allegedly anti-Semitic.

Five brief but precise questions ask for details from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and the 1973 movie version. The questions are not too difficult, but they are specific.

These activities encourage students to explore the character of Shylock, setting him against the backdrop of myths and fears about Jews that existed in Shakespeare's England. Included are discussion questions, primary sources, links for...

[Free Registration/Login Required] These teacher resources offer different interpretations of The Merchant of Venice, an often controversial play with a combination of the issues of prejudice, debt, and injustice along with traditional...

Online companion to a televised production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, with information and analysis about the play and about the approach to the text taken by production's director and actors.

This site features links to lesson plans, study guides, and other teaching ideas for William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice."

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]

Students analyze and discuss how propaganda influenced anti-Semitism and it's role in World War II. In this propaganda activity, students define the terms involved in this assignment. Then they will discuss their reactions to a film and...