Mon. Dec. 6, 2016: Merchant of Venice Act I, Scene 2.

Today, we finished reading Act I, Scene I and then Read Act I, Scene 2. of The Merchant of Venice.
If you were not in class today, you need to answer the following reading questions (this includes those who were reading it in another room):

1.      What is the “lottery” that Portia’s father has devised for her future and decreed in his will? 

 2. Explain what Portia specifically thinks of each of these suitors:

a. the Prince from Naples (Neopolitian) 

 b. Count Palatine

   c. the French Lord

   d. the English Baron

  e. the Scottish Lord

 f. the young German

3. What does Portia say about the newly-arriving prince from Morocco? What are the possible meanings of Act 1, Scene 2, lines 122-126 (page 29)?