Course Detail
Units:
0.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Course Attribute:
University Connected Learning
Description
In two plays set principally in Venice, Italy -- the Tragedy, Othello: The Moor of Venice, and the Comedy (however uncomfortably disturbing), The Merchant of Venice -- Shakespeare created two of his most unforgettable characters. The North African military commander Othello and the Jewish merchant Shylock are each "outsiders" struggling to exist and function within a larger Venetian Christian community of "insiders" that will ultimately destroy them