What+Would+Shakespeare+Do?



Shakespeare? You mean, Bobby Shakespeare best known as William Shakespeare? The Shakespeare that supposedly wrote 37 plays and had 154 sonnets accredited to him? The Shakespeare that literally INVENTED many of the words in the English dictionary, and his playwright is considered to the greatest in the history of English Literature? Yes, yes, YES! That is the one!

There is SO much we can learn about from Shakespear's work, and also, so much to enjoy from comedy to tragedy, from his birth 'till death, we will try and cover a lot on this page!

For more on Shakespeare, visit: http://absoluteshakespeare.com/index.htm

Podcast, series 1: Why learn Shakespeare? media type="file" key="ShakespeareIntro.mp3"

Vacaroo podcast, series 2: A short read from the play, //A Midsummer Night's Dream.// This play, written around 1594, is a comedy that deals with the poetic feature, FRAMING. Essentially, the play is about characters putting together a play (a story within a story is called, framing). Can you find the humor in the difficulty of putting on a play? Do you see where the framing is placed? Please listen along in this podcast:

media type="custom" key="3401168" Podcast, series 3: One of Shakespeare's many sonnets. What is a sonnet? A sonnet is something that we have not gone over in our poetry unit, but I'm SURE it is something you're all very familiar with. A sonnet is a lyric poem, italian for "little song". That's right... you all know the lyrics to your favorite songs, right? http://www.artofeurope.com/shakespeare/sha4.htm

I will be reading sonnet 29, found in the website above, so feel free to read along! Then, please ask yourself, do you ever feel defeated by your school work, or home life? Do you ever feel defeated in sports? Shakespeare did too, yet as we see from this sonnet, how lucky he felt to be able to CREATE, and you know what? I think you feel lucky to create too!! You're all so creative!

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