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Links Database: Keyword mv

• Lansdowne's Jew of Venice

  http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=jew_of_venice&PagePosition=1

  The Furness Collection houses the workThe Jew of Venice. A comedy. As it is acted at the theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's servants.London: Printed for Ber. Lintott, 1701. (Merchant of Venice):

  keywords: comedy, london, jew, merchant, mv, theater, venice

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Masterpiece Theatre |The Merchant of Venice

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/merchant/

  PBS screened a version ofThe Merchant of Venice. The website has everything from essays and interviews to a short extract of the Shylock defense scene:

  keywords: essays, interviews, merchant of venice, mv, shylock, theater

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• Merchant of Venice: Quarto 2

  http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=merchant_q2&PagePosition=1

  The excellent history of the merchant of Venice : with the extreme cruelty of Shylocke the Iew towards the saide merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh : and the obtaining of Portia, by the choyse of three caskets .London: Printed by J. Roberts, 1600 [i.e. 1619]. (Merchant of Venice):

  keywords: history, london, merchant, mv, quarto, venice

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Orator

  http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=orator_selections&PagePosition=1

  Le Sylvain, ca. 1535-ca. 1585. "Of a Jew, who would for his debt haue a pound of the flesh of a Christian" FromIn The orator : handling a hundred seuerall discourses, in forme of eclamations : some of the arguments being drawne from Titus Liuius and other ancient writers, the rest of the authors owne inuention : part of which are of matters happened in our age .London : Printed by Adam Islip, 1596. View images of this original text at theFurness Collection:

  keywords: london, merchant, mv, venice, source

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism: The Question of Shylock

  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7221/

  Stirling, Grant. "Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism: The Question of Shylock." February 1997. An introductory site that explores anti-semitism in the Elizabethan era and offers some images of Shylock performed in different periods:

  keywords: shylock, merchant, mv, venice, anti-semetism, elizabethan, jew

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice

  valid as of 2005-09-12

• Three Scenes, Three Societies, Three Shylocks

  http://www.shakespearemag.com/spring97/dakin.asp

  Dakin, Mary Ellen. "Three Scenes, Three Societies, Three Shylocks."Shakespeare Magazine.(Spring 1997). This site focuses on teachingThe Merchant of Venice, complete with all of its political difficulties, to high school students:

  keywords: merchant of venice, mv, scenes, teaching

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > The Merchant of Venice

  valid as of 2005-09-12