戏剧赏析课件merchant venice.pptx

Lecture 3 Merchant of Venice;Main Source;None of the original manuscripts have survived. Eighteen unauthorised versions of his plays were, however, published during his lifetime. In 1623 (7 years after his death), two of his fellow actors, John Hemminges and Henry Condell, posthumously recorded his work and published 36 of William’s plays in the First Folio. ;1.Date first performed;It is believed that The Merchant of Venice was first printed in 1600. As William Shakespeare clearly did not want his work published, details of the play would have therefore been noted, and often pirated without his consent, following a performance.;3. Background Information;;What is love?;What is prejudice?;What is justice?;Father-daughter Relationship;Anti-semitism Prejudice against or hostility towards Jews, often rooted in hatred of their ethnic background, culture, and/or religion. In its extreme form, it “attributes to the Jews an exceptional position among all other civilizations, defames them as an inferior group and denies their being part of the nation[s]”. A person who holds such views is called an "antisemite.";;In Shakespeare’s time, English law continued to forbid Jews from living in England, but a few hundred survived in the guise of Christians.? Anti-Semitism increased in England around 1190 after non-Jews borrowed heavily from Jewish moneylenders. King Richard I (reign: 1189-1199) put a stop to Jewish persecution, but it returned during King Edward I's reign from 1272 to 1307. The government required Jews to wear strips of yellow cloth as identification, taxed them heavily, and forbade them to mingle with Christians. In 1290 Edward banished them from England. Only a few Jews remained behind. ; Usury;Details of Merchant of Venice;1. The settings for the Play;2. Plots;3. Characterization;The character Shylock as a social outsider (threatening social harmony): moneylender, Jew. Does Shakespeare use Shylock to satirize Jews or his fellow Europeans in their treatm