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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    USD 149yesHarvard University, Cambridge

    The Syllabus

    • Discover sixteenth-century Venice, the commercial hub whose multicultural landscape gives shape to the play 

    • Analyze Shylock, the Jewish merchant: his moral ambivalence, his isolation from and connections to the other characters, and his troubling conversion

    • Situate the play in a long history of artistic representations of Jews in the West, with attention to the problem of anti-Semitism

    • Learn how the play, called a “comedy,” incorporates tragic elements that may prompt audiences to identify with Shylock despite his outsider status

    • Weigh different responses to Shylock over four centuries through the study of artifacts and interviews with authors, actors, and curators

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