Hey 3U7--Here's your second blog topic. This time you have a choice between three options. Don't forget to comment on a classmate's post as well!
1. What textual evidence is there to support or, conversely, take issue with critic Frank Kermode's assertion that King Lear is Shakespeare's "cruellest" play?
2. Ponder Goneril's murder of Regan and her subsequent suicide. What are Goneril's motivations? Are her actions logically consistent? Please ensure you support your argument with textual evidence.
3. Ponder Edmund's desire to do good before he dies. Is this a final attempt to "scam" his way out of damnation, or is his conversion sincere? Please ensure you support your argument with textual evidence.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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ENG 3U7--Blog Topic #1
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What we'll do here is discuss issues that arise as we study our texts. Our classroom will thereby become wall-less and clock-less; it will be a VIRTUAL COSMOS from which there is no escape! Muwahahahahaha!
Er, ahem. I mean it will be a great learning tool.
So . . . on to the first blog topic. We've been reading King Lear and at the same time viewing the Masterpiece Theatre adaption of the stage play starring Ian Holm. Please post a comment here identifying an interesting point of dialogue between Shakespeare's original play and the interpretation offered in the Masterpiece Theatre version. Reflect on any of the following elements of the presentation: the imagery (how does it comment on the action and/or the characters?), the set, the costuming, the casting choices (for example, Lear is played by a man who is short of stature, compared to other Lears; what implications arise?), the acting and delivery of certain lines (emotion, facial expressions, body language), the pacing (including pauses), the staging (focussing on who stands/moves where and how), or the omissions (the lines that have been cut). Once you have offered your comment (or shortly thereafter), please offer a couple respectful lines in response to someone else's post. Feel free to comment on any 3U7's post (BB or FF).
Thanks!
What we'll do here is discuss issues that arise as we study our texts. Our classroom will thereby become wall-less and clock-less; it will be a VIRTUAL COSMOS from which there is no escape! Muwahahahahaha!
Er, ahem. I mean it will be a great learning tool.
So . . . on to the first blog topic. We've been reading King Lear and at the same time viewing the Masterpiece Theatre adaption of the stage play starring Ian Holm. Please post a comment here identifying an interesting point of dialogue between Shakespeare's original play and the interpretation offered in the Masterpiece Theatre version. Reflect on any of the following elements of the presentation: the imagery (how does it comment on the action and/or the characters?), the set, the costuming, the casting choices (for example, Lear is played by a man who is short of stature, compared to other Lears; what implications arise?), the acting and delivery of certain lines (emotion, facial expressions, body language), the pacing (including pauses), the staging (focussing on who stands/moves where and how), or the omissions (the lines that have been cut). Once you have offered your comment (or shortly thereafter), please offer a couple respectful lines in response to someone else's post. Feel free to comment on any 3U7's post (BB or FF).
Thanks!
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