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Merchant Of Venice

The Trial Scene From Shakespeare’s Play
The Merchant Of Venice

According to many people Shakespeare was the greatest playwright who ever lived. And I am inclined to agree.
Even today his plays are still performed all over the world and have been translated into many languages.

It is said that Shakespeare’s genius is universal and ever fresh.
He wrote a great many plays but only thirty-seven were ever published.

During Elizabethan times the audience would have come to watch one of Shakespeare’s plays and received it differently to a modern day audience.
The Elizabethan audience would have been noisy and more ‘involved’ with the performance, whereas now a days the audience would go the theatre and treat it as an almost spiritual thing, we would dress up and be silent throughout the performance showing a general respect for the actors and those involved with the play, whether we liked it or not. Where as if the performance was disliked by......


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Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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