The Qualities of Mercy Project, the brainchild of Professor of English Jonathan Burton, involves 14 college and university classes from across the country with each producing a short video based on a specific portion of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
The 14 videos have been sequenced into a YouTube playlists so that viewers can go through the play witnessing the various ways in which students in distinct cultural and geographical locations render the play and relate it to the particular concerns of their own communities.