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Merchant of Venice
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Gesta Romanorum, (in Latin) [http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/gestarom.html]
Contarini, Gasparo, 1483-1542. The commonwealth and
gouernment of Venice. London: Imprinted by Iohn Windet
for Edmund Mattes, and are to be sold at his shop, at
the signe of the Hand and Plow in Fleetstreet, 1599.
Furness Library Facsimile [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/]
Christopher
Marlowe
: The Complete Works [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/MarloweTEXT.html#drama]
(last visit: 09/03/99)
Mosse, Miles, 1580-1614. The arraignment and
conuiction of vsurie: that is, the iniquitie and
vnlawfulnes of vsurie, displayed in sixe sermons,
preached at Saint Edmunds Burie in Suffolke, vpon
Prouerb. 28.8 . London, 1595. Furness Library Facsimile
[http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/] (Sept.
2001)
Smith, Henry, (1550?-1591).
The examination of usury. A sermon preached
in the city of London. Furness Library Facsimile
[http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/] (Sept.
2001)
Le Sylvain (1535-ca. 1585). [Selections: Front
matter; Of a Jew, who would for his debt haue a pound of
the flesh of a Christian].The orator: handling a hundred
seuerall discourses. London, 1596. Furness Library
Facsimile [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/]
(Sept. 2001)
Arnold, John.
The Jews in Medieval Society [http://www.uea.ac.uk/menu/acad_depts/his/faculty/arnold/jews.htm]
Smith, Goldwin.
The Vexing 'Jewish Question' (A Nineteenth-Century
Scholar's View) [http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n1p16_Smith.html]
Stirling, Grant,
The History of the Jews in England [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7221/jewishistory.htm]
not available:
Il Pecorone, Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, 1558
The Three Ladies of London, R. W., 1584
Zelauto or The Fountaine of Fame, Anthony Munday,
1580
Il Novellino,
Masuccio, trans. W. G. Waters, 1895
Gesta Romanorum, transl. Sir F. Madden, 1838 |
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productions, performances
a) stage history
b) actors, pictures of
performances
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film versions
Internet Movie
Database
[http://www.imdb.com/Name?Shakespeare,+William]
Shakespeare on
Television: a bibliography of criticism
[http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/diazbibl.htm]
Maori Merchant of
Venice,
The (New Zealand, 2002) (play) dir. Don Selwyn. aka
Tangata Whai Rawa o Weniti, Te (2002) (New Zealand:
Maori title) Writing credits Pei Te Hurinui Jones
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0300179] (Dec. 2001)
preview
[http://www.maorimerchantofvenice.com/] (Febr. 2002)
The Merchant of
Venice,
dir. Trevor Nunn. (UK, 2001) (TV, BNC Production) Henry
Goodman as Shylock. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0298061]
(Dec. 2001)
Shylock.
dir. Pierre Lasry. (documentary, Canada 1999) (1999)
Orson Welles, Werner Krauss, Warren Mitchell, Harry Baur,
Ron Leibman, David Berner, Christopher Gaze, Laurence
Olivier, Bernard Mendelovitch, Dustin Hoffman [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0226448]
(Dec. 2001)
The Merchant of
Venice,
(1996) (TV) dir. Benny Pest. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0138606]
Der Kaufmann von
Venedig,
(Germany 1990) (TV) dir. Peter Zadek [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0194076]
The Merchant of
Venice,
(1980) (BBC, TV) dir. Jack Gold [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0081152]
The Merchant of
Venice,
(Canada, 1976) (TV) dir. John Sichel [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0170239[
The Merchant of
Venice,
(UK, 1973) (TV) dir. Jonathan Miller [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0070386]
The Merchant of
Venice,
(UK, 1972) (TV) dir. Cedric Messina [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068937]
Der Kaufmann von
Venedig,
(Austria, 1968) (TV) dir. Otto Schenk [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0248938]
The Merchant of
Venice,
(UK, 1955) (TV) dir. Hal Burton [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0048371]
Le Marchand de
Venise,
(France/Italy 1952) dir. Pierre Billon [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0044885]
The Merchant of
Venice,
(UK, 1947) (TV) dir. George More O'Ferrall [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0039618]
Der Kaufmann von
Venedig,
(Germany, silent 1923) dir. Peter Paul Felner [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0014175]
Tense Moments from
Great Plays
(UK, silent 1922) Shylock: Ivan Berlyn [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0175235]
The Merchant of
Venice,
(UK, silent 1916) dir. Walter West [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0007057]
The Merchant of
Venice,
(USA, silent 1914) dir. Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0004325]
The Merchant of
Venice,
(USA, silent 1912) dir. Barry O'Neil [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0002358]
Il Mercante di
Venezia,
(Italy, silent 1910) dir. Gerolamo Lo Savio [http://us.imdb.com/Title?000131]
The Merchant of
Venice,
(1908) (USA, silent 1908) dir. J. Stuart Blackton
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0000724] |
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adaptations in literature
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Titles from The Merchant of Venice [http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/merchant.html]
- Farquhar,
Robert. Portia Pulls A Pinch Play. (play)
1930.
- Granville,
George. The Jew of Venice. (play) 1701.
Epilogue [http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/kkemmerer/poets/granville/venice.htm]
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Life: [http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/kkemmerer/poets/granville/default.html]
- Kean,
Charles. Shakespeare's Play of The Merchant of
Venice. (play) 1858.
- Lamb,
Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare:
The Merchant of Venice [http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/lambtales/LTMV.HTM]
- Lamb,
Charles and Mary.
Tales, ill. by Arthur Rackham
[http://209.11.144.65/eldritchpress/cml/tfs.html]
(May 2002)
- Lamb,
Tales,
ill. by Gertrude Hammond (1878) [http://www.bartleby.com/1012/]
- Leiren-Young,
Mark.
Shylock. (play) 1996. [http://www.home.istar.ca/~mly/shylock.htm]
- Marowitz,
Charles. Variation on the Merchant of Venice.
(play) 1977.
- Nesbit,
Edith.
Beautiful Tales from Shakespeare
- Scott,
Munroe. Shylock's Treasure. (play) 1978.
- Talfourd,
Francis. Shylock. (play) 1853.
- adaptations
in popular novels and romances: Dean, Dinah.
River of Time; Jong, Erica. Serenissima
(Shylock's Daughter); Kellerman, Kaye. The
Quality of Mercy; Rasley, Alicia. Poetic
Justice; Veran, Patricia. A Shadow's Bliss,
commented by Osborne, Laurie,
Romancing the Bard: [http://www.colby.edu/personal/l/leosborn/POPSHAK/]
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adaptations in music
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paintings, engravings, pictures
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criticism
- Arnold,
John.
The Jews in Medieval Society [http://www.uea.ac.uk/menu/acad_depts/his/faculty/arnold/jews.htm
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Beatty-Kingston, W.
"Shylock in Germany"
in: The Theatre : A Monthly Review of the Drama,
Music, and the Fine Arts; Vol I. New Series :
January to June 1880 (London : Charles Dickens &
Evans, 1880), pp. 17-20 & 86-90. ed. T. Larque.
[http://shakespearean.org.uk/shy1-bea.htm]
- Dakin, Mary
Ellen.
"Three Scenes, Three Societies, Three Shylocks."
Shakespeare Magazine, (Spring 1997) [http://www.shakespearemag.com/spring97/dakin.asp]
- Gross, John.
Review of Shylock: A Legend & Its Legacy [http://ws.bowiestate.edu/archives/files/shylock.review.html]
- Hopkins,
Lisa.
"'Malta of Gold': Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, and the
Siege of 1565." ReSoundings 1.2 (1997) [http://www.millersv.edu/~resound/*vol1iss2/topframe.html]
- Luxon,
Thomas H.
"A Second Daniel: The Jew and the "True Jew" in
The Merchant of Venice." EMLS (January 1999)
[http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-3/luxoshak.html]
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Moulton: From The Library of Literary
Criticism of English and American Authors, ed.
Charles Wells Moulton, 8 vols. (London: Moulton
Publishing, 1901), 1: 484-87. [http://geocities.com/litpageplus/shakmoul-merchant.html]
- Pilkington,
Ace G.
Portia and Shylock: The Outsiders of Venice
[http://dsc.dixie.edu/shakespeare/portiaess.htm]
(May 2002)
- Schneider,
Ben Ross. "Granville's
Jew of Venice (1701): A Close Reading of
Shakespeare's Merchant." Shaksper webpage: [http://ws.bowiestate.edu/archives/files/index.html]
- Schneider,
Ben Ross. "Shylock
Is Us" [http://ws.bowiestate.edu/archives/files/index.html]
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Sinfield, Alan.
Selective
Quotation
(a reply to Graham Bradshaw and Richard Levin
concerning their critiques of Sinfield in
Shakespearean International Yearbook vol. 1) in:
Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar.
(1-29-02) [http://eserver.org/emc/1-2/sinfield.html]
(March 02
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Siar, David :
reply
to Alan Sinfield [http://eserver.org/emc/1-2/siar.html]
(March 02)
- Smith,
Goldwin.
The Vexing 'Jewish Question' (A
Nineteenth-Century Scholar's View) [http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n1p16_Smith.html]
- Stetner,
Clifford: "The
Protestant Reformation according to Launcelot Gobbo."
[http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/stetner5.html]
(July 05)
- Stetner,
Clifford:
Genre and Geometry in Shakespeare’s Merchant of
Venice[http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/movgeometry.html]
(July 05)
- Stetner,
Clifford.
The Merchant of Venice and the Second Tetralogy
[http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/upch3.htm]
(July 05)
- Stirling,
Grant. "Textual
Analysis of the Merchant of Venice" [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7221/textualanalyssi.htm]
- Stirling,
Grant,
The History of the Jews in England [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7221/jewishistory.htm]
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in the classroom
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see also on this
site:
Education -
Shakespeare in the classroom
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Cummings, Michael.
The Complete
Shakespeare - Study Guide to Shakespeare.
[http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#top]
(Jan. 2002)
Merchant of Venice
[http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#topMerchant.html]
- Marx,
Steven.
Triangulating Shakespeare: teaching and lecture
notes, course outlines, articles, links,
suggestions, film reviews. [http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Shakespeare/triang/Comedies/comedies.html]
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Lynch Multimedia: Shakespeare for young readers;
prose adaptations, audio versions, classroom
versions.[http://www.lynchmultimedia.com/shakespeare.html]
- Massi, JM.
study questions. [http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/wssq/mov.html]
(25/04/01)
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Shakespeare for
teachers
and students
[http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/shakes.htm] with
lesson plans (Jan. 2002)
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