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I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes... If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

- Shylock: II, i

The Text

Searchable online text at The Literature Network

Complete text at MIT

Download complete text in MS Word -- merchant.doc (175K), merchant.zip (60K).).).

Quizzes

Act I

Act II

Act III

Act IV

Act V

Stage / Film History

Interview with Trevor Nunn - Director of PBS production.

The Merchant of Venice @ the Internet Movie Database

The Merchant of Venice - PBS site on 2001 TV production.

Performance Review - The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare & Co., 1998.

Performance Review - The Merchant of Venice, American Rep. Theatre, 1999.

Performance Review - The Merchant of Venice, Melbourne, 1999.

Stage Depictions of Shylock

Web Sites

Absolute Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice Study Guide

The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs - The Merchant of Venice

Critical Essays on The Merchant of Venice

Drama to Film - Follow a the transformation of a scene ("Shylock's defense") from the original play to a stage production and TV adaptation.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval Jewish Life

Internet Shakespeare Edition - Draft texts of the folio and quarto editions of the play

Lesson Plan for The Merchant of Venice - Multimedia lesson plan for 12th grade literature students

The Maori Merchant of Venice - New Zealand film version of the play told in the Maori language

Shylock and History - Jami Rogers

Portia and Shylock: The Outsiders of Venice - Ace Pilkington

The Protestant Reformation According to Launcelot Gobbo - Clifford Stetner, Columbia Univ.

Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism: The Question of Shylock

Teaching The Merchant of Venice and Othello - Lesson plans and classroom activities from PBS

Three Scenes, Three Societies, Three Shylocks - essay, Mary Ellen Dakin