http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psATF1mUpUU
Totally wild and fantastic, if you can deal with the screaming girls.
But yes, this scene confirms that the Beatles understood metadrama. They've got a ticket to ride, and they don't care. Rock on. "Come, trusty sword.." (and thanks to A* for the tip!)
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I noticed an interesting commentary and reading by Stephen Greenblatt of a scene from King Lear.
http://filmschatten.blogspot.com/2006/12/il-mercante-di-venezia-merchant-of.html
Props to the person who posted the "Merchant of Venice" video from 1910, which is much more entertaining than Sparknotes.
But seriously, interesting adaptation. Very unusual that we'd have the meeting among Basanio, Shylock, and Antonio from 1.3 end up inside Shylock's home. Elsewhere in the play we learn Shylock is possessive of his goods, of Jessica, and of his contained, shut-up dwelling space (there's a great line where Shylock tells Jessica that the house's ears should be shut up, to prevent the sounds of the Christians celebrating outside in the streets. Wonderful anthropomorphizing moment). Furthermore, Christians would probably refuse to enter the domain of a Jew at this historical moment.
It's also interesting how genuine and jovial things seem to be between Shylock and the Christians, pre-Jessica "abduction." We'll look at Jessica's abandonment, and the ways Shylock reacts to it, in class.
Another link, if you want to see what the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots (Queen Elizabeth's Catholic sister) looked like: http://filmschatten.blogspot.com/2007/02/execution-of-mary-queen-of-scots.html
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