Jessica (1888), Sir Samuel Luke Fildes

Shylock After the Trial (1873) - Sir John Gilbert
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Shylock (1900) - László Mednyánszky
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Portia (1888) - Henry Woods
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Quizzes

Merchant of Venice Quizzes - ShakespeareHelp.com

Lesson Plans

Can't Buy Me Love?

Crafting a Character - The Making of Shylock

English Class in Performance - abridged script

Folger Shakespeare Library Curriculum Guide to The Merchant of Venice

"I am not well": Unspoken Endings/Unscripted scenes

Lesson Plan Archive - Merchant of Venice, Folger

"Let all of his complexion choose me so": Elizabethan Perceptions of Africans

The Merchant of Venice - Web English Teacher

"Money for Something:" Understanding Usury in The Merchant of Venice

Playing Humanity: Comparing Shylock and Antonio

Teacher's Guide to Merchant of Venice - Signet

Teaching The Merchant of Venice and Othello - Lesson plans and classroom activities from PBS

Using Music to Explore Shakespeare's Characters

Vocabulary in The Merchant of Venice

Welcome to Venice

Whatever Happened to Shylock?

www.Merchant of Venice

Stage & Film

Interview with Director Andrei Serban - Merchant of Venice, American Repertory Theatre, 1998

Interview with Trevor Nunn - Dir., PBS production

Merchant of Venice @ the Internet Movie Database

Merchant of Venice - PBS site on 2001 TV production

Merchant of Venice - Production History

Merchant of Venice: The Enigmatic Shylock

Review - Merchant of Venice, American Rep. Theatre, 1999

Review - Merchant of Venice, London, 2007

Review - Merchant of Venice, RSC, 2008

Review - Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare & Co., 1998

Review - Merchant of Venice, UNC, 2009

Review - Merchant of Venice, 2009

Merchant of Venice Uncut - Grandfather Films

Shylock after Auschwitz - The Merchant of Venice on the Post-Holocaust Stage

Shylock Schemes Behind Prison Bars - NYC, 2007

The Text

Complete text at MIT

Download complete text in MS Word -- merchant.doc (175K), merchant.zip (60K)

Internet Shakespeare Edition - Draft texts of the folio and quarto editions of the play

OpenSource Shakespeare - cue scripts

Searchable online text at The Literature Network