Shakespeare in Minneapolis! Merchant of Venice As the Fires on Lake Street For the Setting!
Rythmn/ Rhyme/Imagery as Minneapolis burning for metaphor, with fires and syncopation as the lines.
By Dr Patrick ODougherty
I.Chant the themes!
Money!Justice! Love! Baptism!
Forced conversion Baptism by Fire
II. Crux of the Play is the problem ForcedConversions.
Intolerances the crux of the play.
Mayor Jacob Frey stands for Just-US.
III Scene: Lake Street is the Minneapolis great street on fire.
Portia a wealthy wench like Nancy Pelosi.
Shylock demands in court a pound of flesh from the borrower Antonio, for a bond no less.
IV. Shylock does Not endorse Forced conversions like Baptism by Fire.
Portia disguises herself as a male lawyer. No binaries for this wealthy wench.
Comedy or tragedy or
Comedy Noir, Let the audience be the judge!
Should Portia in disguise be played as a woman or man?
Other Signature characters in the play
V. Balthazar the lawyer is in disguise. The word “lawyer” is now spelled “liar” in Minnesota.
VI.Lawyers as Deceivers!
Atty Craig Boone and William Lubov are NO binary lawyers.
The Fire in Minneapolis Will cost 50 million to cleanup.
500 million for is the cost for the Re-Construction of Minneapolis.
VII Set up and audience! Slanguage in the Language ofthe Merchant of Venice on Lake Street.pin Fire. The audience is election 2021.
The
shift is the paradigm shift in American history.
There is a Language shift from Blank verse to prose Shylock Act 1 Scene 3. Mayor Jacob Frey is firing blanks for Jewish identity. This on the Octave of May 25th 2021.
VIIIRhyme and religion Shakespeare
Act 5 Scene 1 solidarity In order to unite more perfectly.
Minneapolis as Carthage DiDO.
Atty Joe and teacher Jill Biden are calling for a more perfect Union. They have a consecrated marriage.
VII. Stars!
Portia is a wealthy wench like Nancy Pelosi is or was.
Many men interested in Portia. Many men idolize Nancy Pelosi.
The Caskets are the problem in a Merchant of Venice. Picking the casket with the portrait wins Portia. For example, the WAT processional caskets are critical in the WAT liturgies!
VIII. Walking Lines are like music staff lines!
A Line in the Street, Lake Street.
Shylock won’t share Christians prayer food or drink he will do business with Christians
No touch behavior is Shylock’s policy.
IX Casket Choices! The choice in Merchant of Venice, is between three caskets. Three Afro-Americans died in Minneapolis during the May 25th Octave.
X. Jessica is Shylock runaway daughter.
Shylock’s house is a sober house
Jessica runs away
XI. Steal Away Our Love: Jessica and Lorenzo
Jessica steals a casket of gold monies and runs away to meet her lover Lorenzo
Jessica has a boy’s disguise
Prince of Monaco picks the wrong casket. He picks the silver casket. It is the wrong casket.
It doesn’t have the portrait.
XII No binaries! Minnesota lawyers like Craig Boone and Bill Lubov are NO binary lawyers.
Masque
There will be a carnival and a masque
Antonio’s ship sink
This is a bankruptcy.
Shylock calls home the bond owed, the flesh
Shylock wants his money and has Antonio arrested.
However,
Francis Scott Key was a Bondsman like Bud Goldberg Bonds in Minnesota.
Safe Harbor for 3 ships yield a happy ending.