Feb 2024: One Fell Swoop: Reading All of Shakespeare Plays - The Merchant of Venice
Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 4:00-5:30 pm EST
Pre-registration is required, and we ask you to register only if you can be present for the FULL session. All readings are available online. Participants who successfully complete ALL sessions will be eligible to receive an Amazon e-gift certificate.
One of the most problematic of Shakespeare's so-called “problem plays,” The Merchant of Venice provides us with the opportunity to talk about early modern attitudes towards markets, merchants, and towards the Jews who were so often engaged with both. We will surely tackle the question that plague this play, “How anti-Semitic was Shakespeare? How anti-Semitic is the play?” But equally importantly, we will consider what the play has to say about mercy, about faith, and about risk.
Readings: The Merchant of Venice
One Fell Swoop: Reading All of Shakespeare's Plays
- April 2023: One Fell Swoop: Reading All of Shakespeare’s Plays - Romeo and Juliet
- May 2023: One Fell Swoop: Reading All of Shakespeare’s Plays - Coriolanus
- June 2023: One Fell Swoop: Reading All of Shakespeare’s Plays - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- July 2023: One Fell Swoop: Reading All of Shakespeare’s Plays - Henry VI, Part I
- Aug 2023: One Fell Swoop: Reading All of Shakespeare’s Plays - Henry VI, Part II
- Sep 2023: One Fell Swoop: Reading All of Shakespeare’s Plays - Henry VI, Part III
- Oct 2023: One Fell Swoop: Reading All of Shakespeare’s Plays - Macbeth
- Nov 2023: One Fell Swoop: Reading All of Shakespeare Plays - The Comedy of Errors
- Dec 2023: One Fell Swoop: Reading All of Shakespeare Plays - Venus and Adonis
- Jan 2024: One Fell Swoop: Reading All of Shakespeare Plays - Twelfth-Night: or, What You Will
- Feb 2024: One Fell Swoop: Reading All of Shakespeare Plays - The Merchant of Venice
- Mar 2024: One Fell Swoop: Reading All of Shakespeare Plays - Julius Caesar