Winter Counts
Winter Counts takes place on the Rosebud reservation, which is home to this nation of indigenous people.
What is the Lakota?
Bassanio chooses the casket made of this material in order to win Portia in marriage.
What is lead?
The Laramie Project is about the aftermath of the 1998 murder of this man in Laramie, WY.
Who is Matthew Shepard?
Winter Counts is told from this kind of perspective.
What is first person?
The outdoor theater where Shakespeare's plays were most often first performed during his life is called this.
What is the Globe Theatre?
Virgil believes in and enacts this kind of justice, partly to compensate for the lack of justice for crimes committed on the rez.
What is vigilante justice?
In the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Merchant of Venice is categorized as this genre.
What is a comedy?
This character pleads guilty to manslaughter for Nick's murder in The Postman Always Rings Twice.
Who is Cora?
This is the term for the basic rhythmic structure of a line or verse of poetry.
What is meter?
This is the author of The Postman Always Rings Twice.
Who is James M. Cain?
This character eventually kills Ben, a tribal leader who has been running drugs onto the reservation.
Who is Marie?
After successfully getting Antonio out of the bond in court, Portia, dressed as a young male lawyer, procures this from Bassanio, and later chastises him for giving it over.
What is a ring?
The impact of the trials featured in The Laramie Project included the passage of federal laws against these.
What are hate crimes?
This is the names for the literary and artistic movement that seeks to preserve and venerate indigenous art and literature.
What is the Native American Renaissance?
This is the author of Winter Counts.
Who is David Heska Wanbli Weiden?
At the end of the novel, Marie forgoes her chance to attend medical school in favor of staying on the rez to promote this.
What is good nutrition/traditional cooking?
Shylock does this for a living in The Merchant of Venice.
What is usury/moneylending?
At the end of The Postman Always Rings Twice, this is Frank's situation.
What is he is in prison waiting on death row for killing Cora?
Winter Counts and The Postman Always Rings Twice are examples of this fiction subgenre that focuses on criminal underworlds, has a dark tone, and uses morally ambiguous characters.
What is noir fiction?
This was the name of the theater company Shakespeare belonged to when he wrote The Merchant of Venice.
What is the Lord Chamberlain's Men?
At the end of the novel, Virgil and Nathan receive these at a powwow for their Nation.
What are spirit names?
Jessica trades Shylock's ring that he received from his late wife for this.
What is a monkey?
The Postman Always Rings Twice is considered to be the most famous example of this particular kind of American crime fiction that examines corruption in the legal system.
What is hardboiled fiction?
The Laramie Project is an example of this type of theater, a genre that uses actual words from court records, interviews, and news reports to dramatize a story.
What is verbatim theater?
In The Laramie Project, this is the name of the two men convicted of murder.
Who are Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson?