Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Athens, and The Merchant of Venice in…well, Venice. Choose two of these cities and compare them. How is power distributed in each? What conflicts divide them? How does each city create a predicament for some of the characters (mention at least two), and how do they respond to that predicament? What is the fate of these characters, and what do we learn from that?

Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Athens, and The Merchant of Venice in…well, Venice. Choose two of these cities and compare them. How is power distributed in each? What conflicts divide them? How does each city create a predicament for some of the characters (mention at least two), and how do they respond to that predicament? What is the fate of these characters, and what do we learn from that?