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General Category => General Board => Homework Haven => Topic started by: TUR80 on March 06, 2011, 03:41:42 PM
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i strugled through romeo and juliet in grade 10
and didnt bother trying Othello in grade 12
i have just managed to get the assgnment done by focussing on the movie :dance:
how do you survive SHAKESPHERE
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Well the biggest problem is that Shakespeare is meant to be watched, not read. But in English lessons I'm aware of it tends to be read. So no wonder children go off it. Old language in a difficult style, with all sorts of little-used words. Hard to work out what's going on, so you should watch Lawrence Olivier playing the roles to understand the play. Then reading it becomes more of a pleasure.
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true they are 'play's' not 'books'
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My wifey and I were contributors to the Royal Canadian Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Ontario. Every year we attended several performances of any/all of his various works.
True Shakespeare is meant to be PHYSICALLY FELT - i.e. for the "full experience" one must sit in the first few rows!
::)
:zombie:
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Easy way to survive Shakespeare:
Not living in an English-speaking country :winkgrin:
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Easy way to survive Shakespeare:
Not living in an English-speaking country :winkgrin:
haha lol
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I think it would be better if courses showed a video version of the play prior to beginning reading it. Usually it's done the other way around for some reason it seems. I stil prefer his sonnets to his plays, though.
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the way i survived Shakespeare is i watched the movies/plays,
then i always chose essay questions relating to themes e.g. love, betrayal etc and i would get a solid B, B+
it was much easier for me to write about those but this is of course if you have a choice of essay questions
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I think it would be better if courses showed a video version of the play prior to beginning reading it. Usually it's done the other way around for some reason it seems. I stil prefer his sonnets to his plays, though.
i havent actually read OThello yet but have already done the assignment with the movie and hand outs
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I love Shakespeare! My favorite is Hamlet. = )
I got most of my fun by helping my friends understand what was being said. = )
It really isn't all that hard, but it's better if someone else is there for collaboration. \
2 heads > 1 head, most of the time...
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How to survive Shakespeare? The first time you read/watch the play, don't bother analysing it. If you're reading it in class, take your copy home and go through it all. I was always reading ahead in class, because it's beautifully written, and I enjoy both watching and reading his plays. Get the whole story. I HATED it with Othello, Macbeth, or Bronte's Wuthering Heights when we were told to just read certain 'key scenes' (retches). They're only 'key' if you know the rest of the story.
So yeah, that's my advice: read/watch the whole thing. Then you can analyse it.
Easy way to survive Shakespeare:
Not living in an English-speaking country :winkgrin:
Yeah...missing out there. To be fair, we don't look at foreign language novels either...
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Easy way to survive Shakespeare:
Not living in an English-speaking country :winkgrin:
Exactly what I was thinking, but we do have some amazing authors too that gives us quite some trouble at school.
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I agree. Beaudelaire, Voltaire, Hugo, Sand, Sarte,... :sad:
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To be honest I quite like his work. In highschool I did:
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Hamlet
- Romeo and Juliet
- Richard II (or III, I can't remember)
And probably more that I have forgotten. The language really isn't difficult or that much different to present day when you stop looking to far into it.
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To be honest I quite like his work. In highschool I did:
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Hamlet
- Romeo and Juliet
- Richard II (or III, I can't remember) Richard the Third - shows how much you were paying attention! :siderofl:
And probably more that I have forgotten. The language really isn't difficult or that much different to present day when you stop looking to far into it.
And I agree - if you stop trying to analyse the language it becomes much easier to understand. Just enjoy the story!
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I do not see why Shakespeare was in the curriculum of my English course's in year 10 and 12. It is not relevant language today, and it should be taught in History classes, not English.
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I do not see why Shakespeare was in the curriculum of my English course's in year 10 and 12. It is not relevant language today, and it should be taught in History classes, not English.
Er...I strongly disagree. Shakespeare is literature. Just like Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, JRR Tolkien, Emily Bronte, etc. Where else should literature be taught but in an English class?
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I do not see why Shakespeare was in the curriculum of my English course's in year 10 and 12. It is not relevant language today, and it should be taught in History classes, not English.
Er...I strongly disagree. Shakespeare is literature. Just like Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, JRR Tolkien, Emily Bronte, etc. Where else should literature be taught but in an English class?
Here Here! :yesyes:
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To be honest I quite like his work. In highschool I did:
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- Richard II (or III, I can't remember) Richard the Third - shows how much you were paying attention! :siderofl:
My apologies, but I only just realised that Shakespeare did wirte a Richard II as well as a Richard III.
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I didnt have to take it *shrugs*