What to do for Monday, February 28th:

 

  1. Your essay: Listen to the tape and follow along with your essay. Then…
    1. write a transcript of the tape. To do this, split your paper down the paper and, on the left side, write a summary of each of my points, and then opposite on the right side write a response to each point. At the end, write a 5-minute response that conveys what you learned from this process.

 

    1. write a boo-boo page. On this page, write the type of boo-boo you made, the rule for it, and a corrected sentence. The intention here is to learn from your errors—and listening to the tape alone won’t do it.

 

  1. Macbeth: Read Act III aloud aloud aloud aloud.

 

  1. Shakespeare Alive: Read pages 102-163 and answer these questions:
    1. What was theater like before 1576?
    2. Who was Burbage and what happened in 1576?
    3. Why were city officials in London and the Puritans so worried about theaters?
    4. Who were the patrons and why were they vital to theater?
    5. What kind of reputation did actors have, and did this change by 1590?
    6. What was the hierarchy of workers in the theater?
    7. What kind of competition was going on between theater companies?
    8. Talk about the plays: How many? How often? What kind?
    9. What kind of reputation did playwrights have? What kind of challenges did they have when they wrote plays in 1590?
    10. Why were these plays not published?
    11. Who went to these plays and for what cost and for what reason? And how did people behave?
    12. What were the stages of a script?
    13. What were rehearsals like?
    14. Talk about the atmosphere, costumes, and acting in a 1593 production
    15. Where did Shakespeare get his plots?
    16. Where did Shakespeare get some of his lines from?
    17. What did Shakespeare do with the Macbeth plot?

 

  1. Read the introduction to the Riverside: Read pages 1-5

 

  1. Watch movies: This Friday from 1:30-6:00 I’ll be showing two movies on the big screen in Dogwood (Bring your popcorn):

·        Elizabeth from 1:30-3:35

·        Shakespeare in Love from 3:45-6:00

I’ll show both movies again next Friday at the same times but probably in a different place. If neither time works for you, then I’ll put the movies on reserve in the library and you have until March 4th to watch them both.