Teaching William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy Literature Studies grade: 13 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Fachbereich 05 Department of English and Linguistics) course: TEFL - Teaching Drama language: English abstract: This double lesson within a teaching unit dealing with William Shakespeare''s The Merchant of Venice will be held in a grade 12 advanced course at a German High School (''Gymnasium'') in Rhineland-Palatinate. The group of 24 students consists of 10 boys and 14 girls between the ages of 17 and 19.