COD 2006 - G369

Cultural Programme: Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

Literature and Language teachers.

3 sessions, start: 27-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2006
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Ana María Anta Paz de Castagnino, Ms. María Cristina Llorente, Mr. Osvaldo Quiroga
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 27 April 2006 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 08 May 2006 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
3 15 May 2006 06:00 pm 08:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Ana María Anta Paz de Castagnino

Teacher of English, graduate of I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernández". She is tenured lecturer in English History and English Literature: Shakespeare at the I.E.S. Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernández". She is codirector of Clover (Centro de Estudios de Lengua Inglesa).

María Cristina Llorente

Maria Cristina has been a tenured lecturer of Language and Culture II , III and IV at Instituto Superior del Profesorado "Presbitero A.M. Sáenz "Lomas de Zamora. Director of Language Centre Graham Greene, Longchamps. She has attended courses on Cinema Studies with theorists Eduardo A. Russo, Carlos Gamerro and Javier Porta Fuz. English Literature and Film Studies tenured lecturer at Universidad Nacional del Litoral 2005-2006, and Tenured Lecturer of Literary Theory at Universidad Nacional del Litoral 2009. Licenciada en Inglés UNL (2009). Final thesis on the film The Silence of the Lambs. Has attended courses with film director Adrian Caetano and film critic Gustavo Noriega. She has studied Film Criticism at Escuela de Cine de la revista El Amante in Capital Federal.

Osvaldo Quiroga

Journalist and renowned critic. Tenured lecturer in History of Drama. Drama critic for "La Nación" and Director of the magazine "Teatro". Awarded by the Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación, the Consejo Deliberante, the COMFER and by "Sin Cortes" for his programme called "El Refugio de la Cultura" (Radio América & Cablevisión). Got the "Julio Cortazar" award.
Literature and Language teachers.
To become aware of possible readings / interpretations of the play in the light of classical and post-modern literary theory.
- Who is the central character in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: Antonio / Portia? / Shylock? - Is Shylock, the jew of Venice, the villain or the scapegoat in this (ambiguously) just Venetian society? How has historical development in the western world influenced the interpretation/representation of the play? Methodology: Exposition and group work (discussion and comments on the different points of view presented; questions and group discussion tasks on the part of the audience).
- Bloom, H. (1998). Shakespeare - The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books. - Dusinberre, J. (1975 / 1996). Shakespeare and the Nature of Women. Hampshire and London: Macmillan. - Evans, B. (1967). Shakespeare 's Comedies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. - Shapiro, J. (1996). Shakespeare and the Jews. New York: Columbia University Press.
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