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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Goals

1. I want to be able to understand Shakespeare.  He's one of the most famous playwrights (maybe the most famous), but either because he was brilliant, or because he's been gone for a while, the language he uses is hard to follow.

2. As well as understanding, I want Shakespeare to be applicable.  I want to be able to apply what Shakespeare is saying to life, in his time as well as now.

3. Use scholarly information.  Looking back at historical context, gaining perspectives and ideas.  I want to read up about Shakespeare and his plays so that I get more than just a storyline in my head to work with.

4. Enjoy it.  Shakespeare is supposed to be fun and make you laugh.  I want to enjoy this class, as well as just reading his works!!!!
Posted by Laura at 7:06 PM

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Gideon Burton 56p · 741 weeks ago

These are all great goals. But please revise them to be more directly correlated to our course learning outcomes (http://shakespeareunbound.blogspot.com/p/learning-outcomes.html). Make them more specific, too.

Glad you are up and going with Intense Debate!
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HannahPulley 39p · 741 weeks ago

How have you tried so far to understand the language of Shakespeare? I've been using "No Fear Shakespeare" for Hamlet, but this isn't available for all the plays I'll be reading. What is your approach?
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Laura D 45p · 741 weeks ago

I really like using The Oxford School Shakespeare books. Just like you I don't have this book for all of the plays, but I really like the information it gives. It has side-notes all along the book and gives background information as well as more modern English interpretations of the harder Shakespearean sentences. Plays also help, for as many times as I've read Macbeth, watching it live (or even as a movie) helps a lot.
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Janelle McCune 39p · 741 weeks ago

I'm interested in hearing what plays you'll be reading and what you reading schedule is, maybe some of ours will line up. My schedule is located on my blog.

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