Book #19 - The Merchant of Venice

[janetlin]

I love all the women in this play! How often can that be said of Shakespeare? Portia is kickarse (I like her much better than Katherine. Possibly more than even Beatrice. I'd need to read Much Ado About Nothing again). Come to think of it, I wonder when this was written, in relation to Much Ado; if Portia was sort of a proto-Beatrice or vice-versa. Hmm, Wiki says right round about the same time. No help there.

We started to watch the film version with Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons in class, which I _must_ find and rent now. The court scene must be fantastic.

Title: The Merchant of Venice
Author: William Shakespeare
Pages: 203

19 / 50 (38.0%)

Okay, I know the official challenge is fifty books, but I'm very unlikely to get there by the end of the year, so I think I'll start using the tickers based on my personal goal of 24 (which I am, actually, likely to meet and even exceed. Never thought I'd be so glad of all the reading I must do as an English major). So here:

19 / 24 (79.2%)

Woo, doesn't that look nice?

Comments

[mermaidrain.livejournal.com]

I LOVE "Merchant of Venice" (definitely one for the women) and I've been dying to see the Al Pacino version for a while now. Must move that up my queue in Netflix.

[allova.livejournal.com]

I love Portia and Nerissa, but I don't really like Jessica. I recently wrote an essay on "Shakespeare's Witty Women" which compared and contrasted the characters of Portia, Katherine, Beatrice and Adriana (from "The Comedy of Errors")

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

There's a character more awesome than Beatrice? I guess I have to check the play out, then.

[elven-alchemist.livejournal.com]

Sounds interesting, I've heard of this play but never read, may want to correct this;-)