Welcome to the continued exploration of British Literature as the class explores the 18th century through the Modern Period of British literary history.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The Merchant of Venice
So if you ever go to a play that's in old English I would defiantly recommend learning the plot of the play BEFORE you go see it. When we were watching this play I was a little lost at the beginning but by intermission you could pretty much figure out what was going on. But the story line was great! There's a mistress who must find a husband but can find no good suitor, and a sweet man who is the merchant of Venice...but I still can't quite figure out what he wanted, I know he needed a loan but I'm not entirely sure what for. But anyways the mistress finds a good suitor who is the merchant's friend, and her maid marries the mistress' husband's friend; and the mistress and maid play a terrible prank on their husbands its great!! I was laughing so hard on the side of the stage, they looked at me and shuushed me, but then winked at me so it was cool! And we got to sit right on the stage, it was a whole new perspective, we could have reached out and touched them....or separated them which I was ready to do once, but I'm sure you guys will hear about this tomorrow in class, I'm not sure if Emily, Hannah, or I get to tell this...awkward story!
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can't believe you went to that... haha, no it sounds like a good time. Maybe I will go next time, but probly not.
ReplyDeleteAh! Last time I went to a performance by them it was The Tempest and the monster Caliban got all up in my space when he was talking about how desirable the kings daughter was. I turned beet red! They do a great job I job I wish I could have gone wednesday.
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