Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Green Eggs and Hamlet

A) Honestly I don’t know much about Hamlet other than it was written by Shakespeare, probably takes place from 1300 to the late 1500’s, has the whole “to be or not to be” famous quote, a little about what teachers have said about it like how he has to kill someone, also “The Lion King” was inspired by it so a gist of the plot.
B) Shakespeare was an Elizabethan play write who wrote famous plays like: Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Richard III etc. There are a bunch of theories of who he was and what inspired him I’m not sure how much is true most of it seems like nonsense. Much of his writing is about royalty or the nobility who are usually the relatives of the monarchy.
C) I personally frown at it because of how boring Romeo and Juliet were; however Julius Caesar made me shift my viewpoint of his writing. Before high school most people probably here similar things I did about Shakespeare, it’s hard to comprehend, long, boring, and terrible. So even before trying it out people already have a negative preconception of what they are going to read. Also it is super long so trying to finish it in class is nearly impossible and not finishing something is annoying.
D) As for possible things to add to improve, I currently run short on ideas maybe we could recite an important scene or act something out in a humorous way. A bad thing to do though would include watching the new completely anachronistic version; the Romeo and Juliet with Leonardo Decaprio was the main example of this failure.

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