SHAKESPEARE AS A SECOND LANGUAGE Multiliteracies‚ Technologies and the Bard 1 My experience as a drama teacher in public schools and my observations on prac is that high school students in English or Drama classes find Shakespeare frustrating and alienating. And for many non-English speaking and Indigenous students‚ Shakespeare requires a cognitive leap made doubly problematic by cultural distance. In many ways‚ it’s like learning another language‚ hence the title of my investigation. I intend
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this poem‚ the speaker invokes a series of metaphors to characterize the nature of what he perceives to be his old age. In the first quatrain‚ he tells the beloved that his age is like a “time of year‚” late autumn‚ when the leaves have almost completely fallen from the trees‚ and the weather has grown cold‚ and the birds have left their branches. In the second quatrain‚ he then says that his age is like late twilight‚ “As after sunset fadeth in the west‚” and the remaining light is slowly extinguished
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Lust in Shakespeare’ sonnets Shakespeare’ sonnets are on a variety of themes such as time‚ love‚ gender‚ politics‚ sexuality‚ law‚ methaphysics and many others. They express strong feelings and strong arguments. However shakespeare struggle with love and lust is evident in his sonnets. Troughout the reading of Shakespeare’ sonnets I can persieve that he is a profound admirer of beuty; and he persieves beuty of different ways. There are some kinds of beuty that he considers good for his spirit
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teaching of Shakespeare in schools FOR Definitions: William Shakespeare: English poet and playwright‚ widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. Discontinue: Cease doing or providing (something)‚ typically something provided on a regular basis. Compulsory: Required by law or a rule; obligatory. Schools: An institution for educating children‚ in this case the UK Shakespeare in Schools: To Teach or Not to Teach? A pile of well thumbed copies of a Shakespeare play is a
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Midterm 10/13/11 Shakespeare 1503 Orsino and Romeo are two of the greatest and deepest characters of all of Shakespeare’s plays. Orsino appears in the play Twelfth Night. Orsino’s first love in the play is Olivia. Although he never really spoke to her to begin with‚ he instantly fell in love with her. Olivia and Orsino are both very self-indulgent and enjoy creating drama amongst themselves and their peers. Orsino is filled with self-pity and mostly mopes around his home wanting Olivia to
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one of his most famous sonnets to conquer the subject of love. While there is much debate concerning the tone of this sonnet‚ Shakespeare’s words speak of transcendent love not very commonly considered in popular poetry at the time. He used the Petrarchan sonnet style in Old English popular around the time but certainly added a new twist of his own genius. In theme Shakespeare had unique perceptions and experiences in his portrayal of love. The introduction of a young boy as the object of his affections
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writers‚ and poets have pondered the question‚ “Was Shakespeare really Shakespeare?” They’ve done the research‚ analyzed his works‚ and compared it to other writers of the time‚ and there is some pretty damning evidence convincing us that William Shakespeare really isn’t William Shakespeare. What we could assume about his education shows that in school‚ he was taught reading and writing and not much else. William did not travel very far from his home‚ leaving us to think “How did someone with little
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become influential. In the Renaissance era‚ the wealthy had a vast amount of power over the poor‚ similar to men’s superiority to women; the same concept is still in society today‚ even if we wouldn’t admit to it. It is evident in many works by Shakespeare that power and privilege go hand in hand; even so‚ powerful‚ privileged women were not to be made superior or even equivalent to their weaker male
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Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 20’ This sonnet has been the subject of much debate as academics theorise for and against the possible homosexuality of Shakespeare‚ as per the sexual connotations present in the sonnet and the way Shakespeare plays with gender. However‚ the way in which one interprets poems of any kind is highly subjective. Consider‚ for instance‚ a poem on love: the poet cannot be claimed as being an expert on love and its merits‚ and oftentimes a poem is not necessarily based on a personal
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William Shakespeare—Sonnets The first 17 poems of Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to a young man urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalize his beauty by passing it to the next generation. The subsequent sonnets (18 to 126) express the speaker’s love for a young man; brood upon loneliness‚ death‚ and the transience of life. The remaining sonnets (127 to 152) focus on Dark Lady. Dark Lady sonnets are about desire and lust. In this paper‚ I will discuss how William Shakespeare’s
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