The Merchant of Venice

Aemilia Lanyer is regarded as potentialy the first woman to create a large volume of poetry, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, in 1611. Her work was created with the intention to be printed and to attract patronage. On the surface, Salve Deus was seen as a devotional work of poetry. Under the surface, however, the work reveals itself as less of a devotion and more of a highly dramatic work of exigesis, which envisions a post-apocolyptic world. Lanyer gives a new perspective in her works, writing from a…

Joseph Yi Mr. Morgan Period 6 10-23-17 Chapter 9 APWH Byzantium and Orthodox Europe Introduction The two major civilizations Byzantine (Orthodox Christianity) They maintained high level of political, economic, cultural life Leaders saw themselves as Roman Emperors The empire lasted for 1000 years until Turkish invaders took over Similarities Both were influenced by Islam Civilizations spread northward Polytheism both gave them a way to monotheism Northern areas struggled for political definition…

During the Renaissance, in William Shakespeare’s productions of his plays the women roles were portrayed by young men dressing in female attire since women were not allowed to act in theater. Women in early modern England even dressed in male attire for a various of reasons. There were those who opposed cross-dressing in the time period and it was seen as something monstrous and unnatural (Source). At the time, to determine one’s social class and gender was told through their outward appearance,…

during this time frame have opened lost and opening opportunity for different people or countries to build on and create good history. City States in Italian like Venice and Florence are the best to describe as merchant oligarchies because of the amount of trade and business like activity that is present there enough to recognize how merchant oligarchy it can be. Anti- Semitism spread through Europe in response to the plague, many and majority of Jews fled to Poland to hope for a better living…

He was a major figure in English landscape painting in the early 19th century. He is best known for his paintings of the English countryside, an area that came to be known as “Constable country.” He was the son of a wealthy miller and merchant who owned a considerably large house and small farm. Constable was reared in a small Suffolk village. He was meant to enter his father’s business, but, after meeting the famous connoisseur Sir George Beaumont in 1795, and then a circle of antiquarians…

He then began to look at the play Venice Preserved. He provides a brief summary of the play and then goes on to say “Clearly the plot is constructed to exploit conflicting loyalties, rival claims”. At first the play seems like a model of ambivalence even containing on each side symmetrical betrayals. Rabkin proceeds to present many similarities in this work to Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth yet these allusions appear to be misleading. Venice Preserved is more significantly modelled on…

Now, Where Have I Seen Her Before? • It takes time to learn how to find the interconnectedness of literature. It is a learned skill. • There is no such thing as a wholly original work of literature—stories grow out of other stories, poems out of other poems. • There is only one story. This story is one of human nature. It is present regardless if the text is fact or fiction. o Texts borrow and build upon one another. This is called intertextuality. o His analogy was that literature muscles…

needed to be worked on in the future; but made sense during this time period to occur. When it comes to who can hold office; citizens eligible have to go through either voting councils, representatives of guilds/neighborhoods, or both. Similarly, Venice acquired representatives for stability that were admired by others. (Najemy, pg 187) Antiquity had cities claimed the right to institute their own governments and make law for themselves without authorization from a superior power. Early…

was born 1395 around Pisa. Pisanello’s only family that I could find in my research was his parents and that he was never married. His father was a wealthy cloth merchant and and his mother was a native of Verona. For most of his life he lived in Verona, Rome, and Ferrara. In his early career around 1419-1422 Pisanello was living in Venice collaborating with Gentile Da Fabriano to work on Doges’ Palace then in Rome around 1427 in St. John Lateran. Around 1432-1439 Pisanello was moving back and…

Marco Polo as history goes does not stand out with some of the more historical figures of his time. This has become even more popular in the loosely based TV show that has been released about his life. However, without the writings that Marco Polo left us are the very reason we had people like Christopher Columbus. Marco Polo writings inspired Columbus to make the voyage and open up the world to new things, and create an entire generation of people to want to discover new things and see the…