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Tag: shakespeare

  • The Xtreme Zone

    Research the Milgram experiment, read about the game show “The Game of Death“. What ideas about obedience to authority and societal dependance is Shakespeare suggesting in Hamlet? Watch the CBC documentary. http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/video.html?ID=1851450627 http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2011/gameofdeath/   February 2013 Update: I am unable to find an online version of the entire video at CBC.CA I did find a…

  • Not only marble, but the plastic toys

    “Not only marble, but the plastic toys” by Wendy Cope is a parody of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet LV”. Theme: Creative works cannot endure. Techniques: Sonnet structure, comparison, parody, allusion. Issues: See Shakespeare’s “Sonnet LV”. Summarize this sonnet in your own words using your summary of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet LV” as a starting point or model. Do you…