Find out why Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice is a joy to teach
Learn why The Merchant of Venice is one teacher's favourite Shakespeare...
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[MUSIC PLAYING] ROBERT THOMPSON: My favorite Shakespeare play to teach would be The Merchant of Venice. I enjoy teaching this play for several years now because of all the moral ambiguity involved in the play, the characters who can be interpreted in any number of ways. And the reader really doesn't know who to root for in that play and who's the good guy and who's the bad guy and what is Shakespeare's position and lots of unknowns and lots of gray area that I enjoy teaching and discussing with my students.