Course Materials
William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice
Text
- 📖 The Merchant of Venice - Yale Edition 🇬🇧
- 📖 O Mercador de Veneza (trad. Carlos Alberto Nunes) 🇧🇷
- 🔗 The Merchant of Venice
Summary
- 🧠 Plot summary from Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages
Adaptations
- 📼 The Merchant of Venice (2004, dir. Michael Radford)
- 📼 The Merchant of Venice (1973, dir. John Sichel)
- 🔗 Various global productions of the play
- 📼 Check out the added ending to the Shakespeare's Globe 2016 production with Shylock's conversion (video, 24mb)
For Júllya (ignore if you're not Júllya)
- 👩💻 Questions
William Shakespeare: Othello
Text
- 📖 Othello - Yale Edition 🇬🇧
- 🔗 Othello - Folger Online Edition 🇬🇧
- 📖 Otelo (trad. Carlos Alberto Nunes) 🇧🇷
Summary
- 🧠 Plot summary from Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages
Discussion questions
Adaptations
- 📼 Othello (1990, dir. Trevor Nunn) with Ian McKellen & Willard White (YouTube)
- 📼 Othello (1965, dir. Stuart Burge) with Laurence Olivier & Maggie Smith (YouTube)
- 🔗 Watch these various global productions of the play, including this one (2014) and this one (2007) and also this (Otelo da Mangueira, 2006) from Brazil.
Supplements
- 📼 UNIVESP: Literatura Fundamental - Otelo, O Mouro de Veneza, com José Garcez Ghirardi (YouTube)
- 📼 You can read Shakespeare. Here's how by Henry Oliver (YouTube)
- 📼 Why We Can't Do Plays Like Shakespeare Anymore: The London History Show by J. Draper (YouTube)
- 📼 Acting Shakespeare by Ian McKellen (YouTube)
- 📼 Henry V (1944, dir. Laurence Olivier) - useful for seeing the theater (YouTube)
- 📄 Barbara Heliodora, "Otelo, uma tragédia construída sob uma estrutura cômica"
- 📄 Barbara Heliodora, "Forma e Origens em O Mercador de Veneza"