The Merchant of VeniceNelson Thornes, 2003 - 80 pages This Teacher Resource File includes photocopiable worksheets that offer a range of practical activities to engage students with issues of expression and stage presentation. |
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Act 3 Scene alliteration allusions Antonio and Shylock aspects Assignment guidance Act Bassanio and Gratiano Bassanio and Portia Bassanio and Shylock Belmont and Venice blank verse caskets character sheet Clown comedies Context contrast court criteria for gaining daughter deceive deception dramatic irony Duke Epistrophe explore fairy tale famous father's gaining a grade groups of three help you prepare humour husband iamb iambic pentameter Implicit stage directions include some commentary Interpretation Jack shorts Jessica and Lorenzo Jews Launcelot letter literary Look malapropisms Merchant of Venice mood morality plays Morocco oaths pairs Peripeteia Play the scene play's Playing happy families Portia and Bassanio Portia and Nerissa prose references relationship response to Shakespeare rhetorical devices rhymed verse role romantic love settings Shakespeare's audience Shakespeare's language Solanio speech at lines Student Activity Sheet suitors tell theme Title Number Act/Scene treat Shylock trial scene Venice and Belmont words and actions