Year 10: English - Merchant of Venice

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The Merchant of Venice is a play that declares from the outset that money makes the world go round. The title doesn’t give us a name, like Hamlet or Othello, only a profession: merchant, someone who buys and sells for a living. And in the mercantile world of Renaissance Venice, everything is up for sale.

The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s ‘break-through’ plays; its use of prose is interesting, but what is striking is the way in which its verse shows Shakespeare leading us away from the end-stopped lines of his earliest works towards lines in which the thoughts run over from one line to the next.

Adrian Schiller performs Shylock’s speech from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

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