Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice: Shylock offered by Harvard University
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Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice: Shylock at Harvard University Overview
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice: Shylock
at Harvard University
An exploration of the magnetic and ambivalent character of Shylock in William Shakespeare's
Duration | 4 weeks |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
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Course Level | UG Certificate |
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Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice: Shylock
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Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice: Shylock at Harvard University Course details
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice: Shylock
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What are the course deliverables?
- Appreciate Shakespearean dramaturgy and language
- Identify historical contexts that illuminate Shakespeare’s artistic choices
- Explore the implications of different theatrical and performance interpretations
More about this course
- Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt (John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities) guides learners through an exploration of Shakespeare's unforgettable character Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and his historical origins.
- In the first act of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice the Jewish moneylender Shylock proposes a merry sport to the merchant Antonio: he will lend Antonio the money he needs if Antonio agrees to let Shylock take a pound of his flesh should he default
- Shylock calls this contract a merry bond and Shakespeare First Folio calls the play a comedy
- But what does Shylock want from the bond, and how merry does the play ultimately prove
- This course introduces learners to Jewish history both in Venice and in England, to the ways in which Shakespeare's own audience might have responded to the play and its genre, and to the history of the play production through the twenty-first century
- Learners will also be invited to share their own theatrical interpretations of The Merchant of Venice and to ask how the meaning of a work of art may change in different times, contexts, and cultures.
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice: Shylock at Harvard University Curriculum
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice: Shylock
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Shakespeare, Theater, History, Literature
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Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice: Shylock
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Stephen Greenblatt
Designation : Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
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