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The Merchant of Venice

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Englisch-deutsche Studienausgabe
The Merchant of Venice / Der Kaufmann von Venedig.

Deutsche Prosafassung, Anmerkungen, Einleitung und Kommentar von Ingeborg Heine-Harabasz.
Stauffenburg Verlag

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on-line editions

Quarto (1600), Folio (1623) [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/DraftTxt/MV/index.html]

Folio (1623), University of Virginia [http://etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/]

Folio (1623), Furness. [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/|

 

e-books:
Boika Sokolova, The Merchant of Venice
offers a pedagogical analysis of Shakespeare’s complex and controversial play in its Elizabethan and modern contexts.
[http://www.humanities-ebooks.co.uk/Catalogue/William_Shakespeare%253A_%27The_Merchant_of_Venice%27.html]


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translations

Modernised Shakespeare: Shakespeare in modern English, by Walter Saunders [http://www.shakespeare2000.com/index.html] (May 2002

Der Kaufmann von Venedig. Deutsche Übersetzung v. August Wilhelm von Schlegel [http://projekt.gutenberg.de/shakespr/kaufmann/kaufmann.htm] (May 2002)

Il mercadante di Venezia. Shakespeare in Italian, transl. Goffredo Raponi: [http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/s/shakespeare/index.htm]

Il mercante di Venezia / The merchant of Venice. Italian Translation. (PDF-file) [http://infoservice.dnsq.org/sh-commedie.html]

De Koopman van Venetië Dutch translation. by Jan Jonk. [http://www.janjonk.nl/] (March 2002)

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sources

Gesta Romanorum, (in Latin) [http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/classical/latin/tchmat/readers/gr/gr1.html]

Contarini, Gasparo, 1483-1542. The commonwealth and gouernment of Venice. London: Imprinted by Iohn Windet for Edmund Mattes, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Hand and Plow in Fleetstreet, 1599. Furness Library Facsimile [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/]

Christopher Marlowe
: The Complete Works [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/MarloweTEXT.html#drama] (last visit: 09/03/99)

Mosse, Miles, 1580-1614. The arraignment and conuiction of vsurie: that is, the iniquitie and vnlawfulnes of vsurie, displayed in sixe sermons, preached at Saint Edmunds Burie in Suffolke, vpon Prouerb. 28.8 . London, 1595. Furness Library Facsimile [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/] (Sept. 2001)

Smith, Henry, (1550?-1591). The examination of usury. A sermon preached in the city of London. Furness Library Facsimile [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/] (Sept. 2001)

Le Sylvain (1535-ca. 1585). [Selections: Front matter; Of a Jew, who would for his debt haue a pound of the flesh of a Christian].The orator: handling a hundred seuerall discourses. London, 1596. Furness Library Facsimile [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/] (Sept. 2001)

Arnold, John. The Jews in Medieval Society [http://www.uea.ac.uk/menu/acad_depts/his/faculty/arnold/jews.htm]

Smith, Goldwin. The Vexing 'Jewish Question' (A Nineteenth-Century Scholar's View) [http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n1p16_Smith.html]

Stirling, Grant, The History of the Jews in England [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7221/jewishistory.htm]

not available:
Il Pecorone, Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, 1558
The Three Ladies of London, R. W., 1584
Zelauto or The Fountaine of Fame, Anthony Munday, 1580
Il Novellino, Masuccio, trans. W. G. Waters, 1895
Gesta Romanorum, transl. Sir F. Madden, 1838

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productions, performances

a) stage history

Current and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in the UK [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/performance/shakespeare%20productions.html] (April 2002)

The Traffic on Stage (Shakespeare Productions 1999 - 2002 in the UK) [http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/testjon3/] (April 2002)

Shakespeare at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (1906-1960) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/Birmingham/home.html] (April 2002)

Beatty-Kingston, W. "Shylock in Germany" in: The Theatre : A Monthly Review of the Drama, Music, and the Fine Arts; Vol I. New Series : January to June 1880 (London : Charles Dickens & Evans, 1880), pp. 17-20 & 86-90. ed. T. Larque. [http://shakespearean.org.uk/shy1-bea.htm]

Dakin, Mary Ellen. "Three Scenes, Three Societies, Three Shylocks." Shakespeare Magazine, (Spring 1997) [http://www.shakespearemag.com/spring97/dakin.asp]

Stage depictions of Shylock [ttp://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7221/stagehistory.htm] (May 2002)


b) actors, pictures of performances

The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs by Lesley Ellen Jorbin. Free searchable database for pictures of performances: photographs from the plays of Shakespeare on stage, screen, TV, opera and ballet. [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/]

c) reviews of productions


Olivier, Richard. London Globe 1998 reviews
[http://www.albemarle-london.com/globe.html#merchantofvenice]

Doran, Gregory. Stratford, RSC 1997/8 (Shylock: Philipp Voss) reviews.
[http://www.albemarle-london.com/rsc-merchant.html]

Performance Review, Peter Sellars, Goodman Theatre, Chicago. 5 November 1994. / Bary Edelstein, New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp Public Theatre. 18 February 1995. [http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/theatre_journal/48.1pr_shakespeare02.html]

Peter Hall, Broadway 1989/90 [http://www.theatredb.com/cgi-bin/q.pl?stext=Merchant+of+Venice&query=show]


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film versions

Internet Movie Database [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Shakespeare,+William]
Shakespeare on Television: a bibliography of criticism [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/diazbibl.htm]
Maori Merchant of Venice, The (New Zealand, 2002) (play) dir. Don Selwyn. aka Tangata Whai Rawa o Weniti, Te (2002) (New Zealand: Maori title) Writing credits Pei Te Hurinui Jones [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0300179] (Dec. 2001) preview [http://www.maorimerchantofvenice.com/] (Febr. 2002)
The Merchant of Venice, dir. Trevor Nunn. (UK, 2001) (TV, BNC Production) Henry Goodman as Shylock. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0298061] (Dec. 2001)
Shylock. dir. Pierre Lasry. (documentary, Canada 1999) (1999) Orson Welles, Werner Krauss, Warren Mitchell, Harry Baur, Ron Leibman, David Berner, Christopher Gaze, Laurence Olivier, Bernard Mendelovitch, Dustin Hoffman [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0226448] (Dec. 2001)
The Merchant of Venice, (1996) (TV) dir. Benny Pest. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0138606]
Der Kaufmann von Venedig, (Germany 1990) (TV) dir. Peter Zadek [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0194076]
The Merchant of Venice, (1980) (BBC, TV) dir. Jack Gold [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0081152]
The Merchant of Venice, (Canada, 1976) (TV) dir. John Sichel [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0170239[
The Merchant of Venice, (UK, 1973) (TV) dir. Jonathan Miller [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0070386]
The Merchant of Venice, (UK, 1972) (TV) dir. Cedric Messina [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068937]
Der Kaufmann von Venedig, (Austria, 1968) (TV) dir. Otto Schenk [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0248938]
The Merchant of Venice, (UK, 1955) (TV) dir. Hal Burton [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0048371]
Le Marchand de Venise, (France/Italy 1952) dir. Pierre Billon [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0044885]
The Merchant of Venice, (UK, 1947) (TV) dir. George More O'Ferrall [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0039618]
Der Kaufmann von Venedig, (Germany, silent 1923) dir. Peter Paul Felner [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0014175]
Tense Moments from Great Plays (UK, silent 1922) Shylock: Ivan Berlyn [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0175235]
The Merchant of Venice, (UK, silent 1916) dir. Walter West [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0007057]
The Merchant of Venice, (USA, silent 1914) dir. Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0004325]
The Merchant of Venice, (USA, silent 1912) dir. Barry O'Neil [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0002358]
Il Mercante di Venezia, (Italy, silent 1910) dir. Gerolamo Lo Savio [http://us.imdb.com/Title?000131]
The Merchant of Venice, (1908) (USA, silent 1908) dir. J. Stuart Blackton [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0000724]

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adaptations in literature

Titles from The Merchant of Venice [http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/merchant.html]

Farquhar, Robert. Portia Pulls A Pinch Play. (play) 1930.

Granville, George. The Jew of Venice. (play) 1701. Epilogue [http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/kkemmerer/poets/granville/venice.htm]
Life: [http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/kkemmerer/poets/granville/default.html]

Kean, Charles. Shakespeare's Play of The Merchant of Venice. (play) 1858.

Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice [http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/lambtales/LTMV.HTM]
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales, ill. by Arthur Rackham [http://209.11.144.65/eldritchpress/cml/tfs.html] (May 2002)
Lamb, Tales, ill. by Gertrude Hammond (1878) [http://www.bartleby.com/1012/]
Leiren-Young, Mark. Shylock. (play) 1996. [http://www.home.istar.ca/~mly/shylock.htm]
Marowitz, Charles. Variation on the Merchant of Venice. (play) 1977.

Nesbit, Edith. Beautiful Tales from Shakespeare

Scott, Munroe. Shylock's Treasure. (play) 1978.

Talfourd, Francis. Shylock. (play) 1853.

adaptations in popular novels and romances: Dean, Dinah. River of Time; Jong, Erica. Serenissima (Shylock's Daughter); Kellerman, Kaye. The Quality of Mercy; Rasley, Alicia. Poetic Justice; Veran, Patricia. A Shadow's Bliss, commented by Osborne, Laurie, Romancing the Bard: [http://www.colby.edu/personal/l/leosborn/POPSHAK/]

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adaptations in music

Operas, for details see: [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/] (in Italian)
1873 Pinsuti; 1898 Deffés: Jessica

Castenuovo-Tedesco Mario (1895-1968) Il Mercante di Venezia, opera, 1958

Nürnberg, K. Il mercante die Venezia. 1973

Sullivan, Arhur. The Merchant of Venice, incidental music (1871) [http://www.concentric.net/~oakapple/gasdisc/sullinci.htm#merchant_of_venice]

Taubmann, Otto. Porzia R. Wilde 1916

Vaughan Williams, Ralph. Serenade to Music (Merchant of Venice)


Songs: see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]

Fancy (III.2) Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), 1964.; Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), FP. 174. [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/fancy.html]


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paintings, engravings, pictures

Shakespeare illustrated [http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/MerchantPaintings.html]

Ellen Terry as Portia. Frederic Leighton: Two Venetian Gentlemen; Sir John Gilbert: Shylock after the Trial. Henry Woods: Portia; Sir Samuel Luke Fides, Portia. [http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake/merchant.html]

Gilbert, Sir John. "Shylock after the trial", (picture from Knight's Imperial Edition) at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Febr. 2002)


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criticism

Arnold, John. The Jews in Medieval Society [http://www.uea.ac.uk/menu/acad_depts/his/faculty/arnold/jews.htm]

Beatty-Kingston, W.
"Shylock in Germany" in: The Theatre : A Monthly Review of the Drama, Music, and the Fine Arts; Vol I. New Series : January to June 1880 (London : Charles Dickens & Evans, 1880), pp. 17-20 & 86-90. ed. T. Larque. [http://shakespearean.org.uk/shy1-bea.htm]

Dakin, Mary Ellen. "Three Scenes, Three Societies, Three Shylocks." Shakespeare Magazine, (Spring 1997) [http://www.shakespearemag.com/spring97/dakin.asp]

Gross, John. Review of Shylock: A Legend & Its Legacy [http://ws.bowiestate.edu/archives/files/shylock.review.html]

Hopkins, Lisa. "'Malta of Gold': Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, and the Siege of 1565." ReSoundings 1.2 (1997) [http://www.millersv.edu/~resound/*vol1iss2/topframe.html]

Luxon, Thomas H. "A Second Daniel: The Jew and the "True Jew" in The Merchant of Venice." EMLS (January 1999) [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-3/luxoshak.html]

Moulton: From The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, ed. Charles Wells Moulton, 8 vols. (London: Moulton Publishing, 1901), 1: 484-87. [http://geocities.com/litpageplus/shakmoul-merchant.html]

Pilkington, Ace G. Portia and Shylock: The Outsiders of Venice [http://dsc.dixie.edu/shakespeare/portiaess.htm] (May 2002)

Schneider, Ben Ross. "Granville's Jew of Venice (1701): A Close Reading of Shakespeare's Merchant." Shaksper webpage: [http://ws.bowiestate.edu/archives/files/index.html]

Schneider, Ben Ross. "Shylock Is Us" [http://ws.bowiestate.edu/archives/files/index.html]

Sinfield, Alan. Selective Quotation (a reply to Graham Bradshaw and Richard Levin concerning their critiques of Sinfield in Shakespearean International Yearbook vol. 1) in: Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar. (1-29-02) [http://eserver.org/emc/1-2/sinfield.html] (March 02)
Siar, David : reply to Alan Sinfield [http://eserver.org/emc/1-2/siar.html] (March 02)


Smith, Goldwin. The Vexing 'Jewish Question' (A Nineteenth-Century Scholar's View) [http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n1p16_Smith.html]

Stetner, Clifford: "The Protestant Reformation according to Launcelot Gobbo." [http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/stetner5.html] (July 05)

Stetner, Clifford: Genre and Geometry in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice[http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/movgeometry.html] (July 05)

Stetner, Clifford. The Merchant of Venice and the Second Tetralogy [http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/upch3.htm] (July 05)


Stirling, Grant. Textual Analysis of the Merchant of Venice" [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7221/textualanalyssi.htm]

Stirling, Grant, The History of the Jews in England [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7221/jewishistory.htm]

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in the classroom


see also on this site: Education - Shakespeare in the classroom

e-book: Boika Sokolova, The Merchant of Venice
offers a pedagogical analysis of Shakespeare’s complex and controversial play in its Elizabethan and modern contexts.
[http://www.humanities-ebooks.co.uk/Catalogue/William_Shakespeare%253A_%27The_Merchant_of_Venice%27.html]


Cummings, Michael. The Complete Shakespeare - Study Guide to Shakespeare. [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#top] (Jan. 2002) Merchant of Venice [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#topMerchant.html]

Marx, Steven. Triangulating Shakespeare: teaching and lecture notes, course outlines, articles, links, suggestions, film reviews. [http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Shakespeare/triang/Comedies/comedies.html]

Lynch Multimedia: Shakespeare for young readers; prose adaptations, audio versions, classroom versions.[http://www.lynchmultimedia.com/shakespeare.html]

Massi, JM.
study questions. [http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/wssq/mov.html] (25/04/01)

Shakespeare for teachers and students [http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/shakes.htm] with lesson plans (Jan. 2002)

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deutsche Webseiten

Gröchel, André. Das kleine Shakespeare-Brevier:
Der Kaufmann von Venedig Inhalt, Wurzeln, Quellen. [Falls dieser Link nicht klappt: [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.deslit.de/shakespeare/kaufmann.htm]

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