Shakespeare for White Trash -08- The Merchant of Venice PDF
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Canadian author Crad Kilodney created the “Shakespeare For White Trash” series to make Shakespeare understandable and enjoyable to the many millions of people living now who have little or no knowledge of Shakespeare, and to prove to them that the stories contained in Shakespeare's plays are superb. The plots and characters are unchanged, but everything else has been radically restyled. Read Crad's versions and you will become a Shakespeare fan. Enjoy!
Kilodney originally posted his versions on Wordpress.com from 2010 to shortly before his death in 2014. It was the first time that all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays had been rewritten by one author and published in one place. They are re-packaged here to increase the likelyhood of people, like you, finding them.
Mr. Kilodney hoped acting companies would be encouraged to stage these plays more often.
Gist of the story: Antonio, a merchant, borrows a large sum of money from the Jewish moneylender
Shylock, who hates him. Shylock won’t charge interest on the loan. Instead, Antonio must guarantee
the loan with a pound of his own flesh. Antonio signs the contract because he is borrowing the money
to help his friend Bassanio, who seeks to marry the wealthy heiress Portia. Antonio is confident that
his ships will return in plenty of time to provide him with the money to pay back the loan. However,
the ships fail to return on time, and he can’t repay the loan. Now Shylock demands his pound of flesh,
and he drags Antonio into court to enforce the contract. Portia disguises herself as a lawyer and comes
to Venice to save Antonio’s life. (Taken at face value, this play is so anti-Semitic, no modern
playwright could get away with it. Nevertheless, it remains one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays.
And now you know where the phrase “a pound of flesh” comes from.)
Kilodney originally posted his versions on Wordpress.com from 2010 to shortly before his death in 2014. It was the first time that all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays had been rewritten by one author and published in one place. They are re-packaged here to increase the likelyhood of people, like you, finding them.
Mr. Kilodney hoped acting companies would be encouraged to stage these plays more often.
Gist of the story: Antonio, a merchant, borrows a large sum of money from the Jewish moneylender
Shylock, who hates him. Shylock won’t charge interest on the loan. Instead, Antonio must guarantee
the loan with a pound of his own flesh. Antonio signs the contract because he is borrowing the money
to help his friend Bassanio, who seeks to marry the wealthy heiress Portia. Antonio is confident that
his ships will return in plenty of time to provide him with the money to pay back the loan. However,
the ships fail to return on time, and he can’t repay the loan. Now Shylock demands his pound of flesh,
and he drags Antonio into court to enforce the contract. Portia disguises herself as a lawyer and comes
to Venice to save Antonio’s life. (Taken at face value, this play is so anti-Semitic, no modern
playwright could get away with it. Nevertheless, it remains one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays.
And now you know where the phrase “a pound of flesh” comes from.)
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