Please find here the beginning of some useful resources for our study:
Bell Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice (this is what we are going to see in a few weeks): https://www.bellshakespeare.com.au/whats-on/the-merchant-of-venice/
Review of Bell Shakepeare’s production (by the Australian Book Review):
https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-arts/4166-the-merchant-of-venice-bell-shakespeare
Wikipedia’s overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice
Here also is the PDF of the Introduction and Act 1 of The Merchant of Venice (you are all going to get hard copies of this text next week -gratis!):