08-16-2010, 01:17 AM
Hi,
I'll have to see if NetFlix has it -- though I did start watching a Merchant not too long ago and I couldn't get past what had been done to it. While not my favorite, I do enjoy it. Back when writing still meant carving symbols into rock (kids today have it too easy) I did a paper comparing and contrasting Merchant with Marlow's The Lady Is Not for Burning. Fortunately, I have long forgotten what I said, and hopefully the original is moldering, illegible, in some dump somewhere. Then I read a wonderful analysis of Merchant in (I think) Harry Golden's For Two Cents Plain. If you can snag a copy from a library, it's a good read.
--Pete
(08-16-2010, 12:19 AM)Hammerskjold Wrote: No seriously, 'Merchant...' is probably one of my, if not -the- favorite of that Shakespeare guy's funny written books. I recommend seeing the somewhat recent film version with Al Pacino as Shylock. (He actually exercised restraint in his usual scenery chewing IMO, and for the better.)
I'll have to see if NetFlix has it -- though I did start watching a Merchant not too long ago and I couldn't get past what had been done to it. While not my favorite, I do enjoy it. Back when writing still meant carving symbols into rock (kids today have it too easy) I did a paper comparing and contrasting Merchant with Marlow's The Lady Is Not for Burning. Fortunately, I have long forgotten what I said, and hopefully the original is moldering, illegible, in some dump somewhere. Then I read a wonderful analysis of Merchant in (I think) Harry Golden's For Two Cents Plain. If you can snag a copy from a library, it's a good read.
--Pete
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