"The Merchant of Venice" and Short Story

03November2008

Today we began to talk about "The Merchant of Venice" and the first thing we focus was the Globe Theatre. We also talked about Shakespeare who was borned in the 16/17 century, during the time of Queen Elizabeth I. The plays in Shakespeare are based in the English History context. After this introduction we point out the name of the characters of the play and we give our idea about the main plot and sub-plots and we also descrived the relations between the characters Antonio/Bassanio - Shylock/Jessica - Jessica/Lorenzo - Graciano/Nerissa - Bassanio/Portia.

In the second hour it was the time for Carlos Barroso to present his short story, this was called "What do you do in San Francisco". This story is about a family that left San Francisco and went to a small village. In this village they staid in a house in whish they didn´t change anything. The women was a painter and the man did´t work. The way of live this family was taking was very strange for the people of the village and because they didn´t knew anything about the family rumours started to happen.