The rialto bridge Shylock:
Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation which
your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I
will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you,
walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat
with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What
news on the Rialto? Who is he comes here?
A Gondola:
SALARINO
He came too late, the ship was under sail:
But there the duke was given to understand
That in a gondola were seen together
Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica:
Besides, Antonio certified the duke
They were not with Bassanio in his ship
Jewish Ghetto of Venice where Shylock would have lived.
Astrology clock in Piazza San Marco
BASSANIO
You may do so; but let it be so hasted that supper
be ready at the farthest by five of the clock. See
these letters delivered; put the liveries to making,
and desire Gratiano to come anon to my lodging.
5 comments:
Thank you for posting these pictures. This really helps to give a sense of where certain scenes would have taken place. I wish you had your photos you took yourself, but these are good. I like to see how Shylock lived and now I can picture the scene where Jessica runs away from home. I think the clock is beautiful and I can see how Shakespeare uses such language to describe all this scenery. You can get a sense of where the Duke, Antonio, Shylock, and the others were when they were deciding how to break the contract of Antonio and Shylock. This was a good idea to post pictures.
I also found it to be very refreshing that you posted pictures to correspond with the text. While reading The Merchant of Venice I always played out the scenes as though they were on a stage (as intended), but with your pictures I remembered that many of the settings in Shakespeare's works are actual places. Having never been to Italy, I can now place images with certain scenes because of your post.
Thanks for reading and commenting! I wish I had, had my pictures too! Its soo easy to just relegate shakespeare to a stage when you read it but yeah if you think about the places it makes it so real!
I wonder if, in conjunction with the rather specific "five of the clock" statement by Bassanio, the resulting hand on Pisces means anything. Interesting.
Very cool, Gianna! I love the photo blog post, as it immerses us in the world of this play. It's worth pointing out, too, that Shakespeare would have experienced Venice in much the same way--not through color digital photography, of course, but through travel guides, written descriptions of the city, and various kinds of city surveys and views that were popular in the period.
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