Karinne Noah - Shakespeare

So to finish off this wonderful semester of Shakespeare, I want to leave you all with a version of a "To be or not to be" speech. ...

Caliban from "The Tempest" hardly seems like a character worth sympathizing for, I know. He's spiteful, ungrateful, and not on...

If I remember correctly from the beginning of the semester, there was a mention that we use a lot of Shakespearian phrases without knowledge...

Sonnet 15 recognizes the decline in beauty of objects over time. The poet is aware of this ever changing life we all live, and he cherish...

As it’s already been stated repeatedly, “All’s Well That End’s Well” is admittedly the most well-liked play of all of Shakespeare. While ...

A theme I noticed in Shakespeare’s poem “The Rape of Lucrece” was the objectification of women. Lucrece is an object of possession as des...

If I recall from such a long time ago, we were asked to blog about what we need in life. I remember reading someone else’s blog about thi...

In my readings of “Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human”, I found myself particularly interested in Harold Bloom’s comparison of King ...

After reading “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” I wasn’t entirely sure what to think of Puck. Were his pranks playfully mischievous or were the...

Around the beginning of the semester when we read “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Sexson mentioned Northrup Frye’s concept of a Green World....

1. What is obsessive question does Prospero keep asking Ariel? - Time 2. How many times does Prospero use the word "now"? - 79 ...

"Tempest" - The storm wasn't real, imagined shift focus to mechanism that creates illusions - Based on ancient religious m...

- 4 last plays Cymbeline, Winters Tale, Pericles, and the Tempest Shakespeare made a wrong turn after Antony and Cleopatra? Leaves behind...

- Antony and Cleopatra - Scene 1 is central to the play - First word "nay," argument is already propensity of Antony's act...

- King Lear The ailing king: James G. Frazer - conflict between kings of golden bough, old challenge young King Lear - egotist, restrict...

This is a clip of the 1971 film version of King Lear Act I Scene 4 where the Fool asks King Lear what use he can make of nothing.

Flyting on the ball field: Fun fact from Wikipedia: Flyting is a poetic genre. The word flyting has been adopted from a fifteenth and six...

1. Is there a play that is going to be weighted heavier on the test? - No. 2. About which play does Northrup Frye say that critics have be...

- Paronomasia: word play with humorous or rhetorical effect - "Original" always use with quotes - The double language  - Achil...

Homework - Memorize "These are counselors that feelingly persuade me what I am." - Put most interesting thing in the first sen...

While poking around with many different mythological and biblical references in "As You Like It", I happened to stumble upon an ar...

Homework Blog: In what way does mythology operate in "As You Like It"? Google the "Green World" and report finding...

Homework - Read Northrop Frye, The Argument of Comedy Notes - The Green World: Tendency for dramatists to use woods for sanctuary f...

- Metempsychosis: transmigration as death of soul of a human to another body no such thing as death, only change - "Venus and Adoni...

Homework Readings: A Midsummer Night's Dream Blog: Read everyone's blog Responses on the School of Night Sonnet in the next ...

My exposure to Shakespeare is minimal, to say the least. The Shakespeare experience began in ninth grade with Romeo and Juliet. After ...

Homework  Choose a work of secondary criticism by Feburary 1 st Shakespeare and the Godess of Complete Begin - Ted Hughes Northrop Fry o...