- Revisiting Shakespeare’s Funny Talk (Blank Verse – Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter)
- Some of the “Funny Talk” in Merchant of Venice
- Full Text, Commentary & Resources (Hudson Shakespeare Company)
Background for the Bard:
Is Wrigley Field a modern-day Globe Theater? What?! Huh? Have you heard of the Globe’s “groundlings” or Wrigley’s “bleacher bums?” And what about the way they’re designed or the way they fly their flags? In the end, it’s just people trying to enjoy an open-air performance. Here’s more Shakespeare stuff…
Globe Theater:
- Globe Theater
- Globe Theater Virtual Tour
- The Globe & Shakespeare
- Imagining & Re-Imagining The Globe Theater
- What is Drama?
Shakespeare Smorgasbord:
- Shakespeare Bio
- There’s No Escaping Shakespeare (NYT Video)
- Shakespeare Brief & Naughty (Video)
- The Shakespeare Mystery
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Absolute Shakespeare
- Ye Olde Shakespearean Insults
- Shakespeare Escapes the Plague?
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- Shakespeare in Modern English?
- Shakespeare Online
- Shakespeare Subject to Change (Interactive)
- “Kill All the Lawyers” – Shakespeare & the Law
The Best Damn Shakespeare Reference Ever!!! (For finding quotes & characters & cross-referencing everything. Enjoy!)
Merchant Material:
- Commentary/Intro for MOV (Hudson Shakespeare Company)
- Racisms & anti-Semitism in the U.S. Are Rising With Deadly Consequences (CNN)
- Anti-Semitic Incidents Audit 2017 (ACLU)
- Germans Call for Holocaust Education for Recent Migrants (2018)
- Holocaust Fading From Memory
- Kids Meet a Holocaust Survivor (YouTube)
- Shylock: Villain or Victim? A Play by Guy Masterson (2014)
- The Merchant of Venice Team Presentations
- 6 Dr. Seuss Books Won’t Be Published Anymore