Shakespeare

SHAKESPEARE UNIT OPEN BOOK GUILD ASSESSMENT



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**The Shakespeare Glossary!** (Requires sign-in to Moodle.)
Learn something about Shakespeare's life, times, or works? Write a glossary entry! Demonstrate your best writing, grammar, and mechanics skills and be sure to clearly and properly cite all your sources (see Writing wikipage).

Include your first name(s) and last initial(s), your Guild name, and your section in your entries. If someone else has already written an entry, you can add to it in the Comments section. Try not to repeat information, but rather add to it!

DO NOT PLAGIARIZE! NO COPY & PASTE. CITE YOUR SOURCES.

Entries earn badges! What badges you earn are determined by the number and quality of the entries you write!



You are sooooooo free to choose topics, but here are some **suggestions for uber-interesting topics:** Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth's parents Queen Elizabeth I Bloody Mary Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife The Black Death Crime & Punishment Mary, Queen of Scots (not the same as Bloody Mary) King James I and his belief in witchcraft Christopher Marlowe Medicine Fashion Music Food and Drink Theseus and Hippolyta myths The Golden Ass "Pyramus and Thisbe" Theatre, Props, Costumes, Audiences The Globe Theatre, The Blackfriars Theatre, The Rose, The Theatre, The Swan Sir Walter Raleigh and the legend of El Dorado Sir Francis Drake and circumnavigation of the globe Defeat of the Spanish Armada The Great Chain of Being and superstitions Religion The Cobb Portrait Shakespeare's last will and testament "The Lost Years" of Shakespeare The Dark Lady The Authorship Controversy Ovid's //The Metamorphosis// Titus Andronicus -- includes cannibalism! Inventions Discoveries and scientific advancements Ben Jonson Famous actors in Elizabethan England The First Folio Neologisms -- You will freak out at some of the words and phrases Shakespeare created! The Excavation of New Place Shakespeare's Death and Burial -- There's supposedly a curse! John Shakespeare, William's father -- the guy's a wreck. Shakespeare's Coat of Arms Spelling of Shakespeare's name Education and Schools

Team Shakespeare! Shakespeare Guilds & Badges
Fleur de Lis Design: The Meanings Behind the Symbols on Coats of Arms Heraldry 4 Kids - Note: You may NOT use the "Design Your Own Shield on the Internet" websites at the top of the page. Free Heraldry Clip Art More Heraldry Clip Art (scroll to the bottom of the page)



Going on a Bard Hunt!
Website for WebQuest on Elizabethan England-- WebQuest on Elizabethan England

The Essential Shakespeare
A student's NHD project on Shakespeare: media type="custom" key="8733414" media type="custom" key="8733562" media type="custom" key="8733646"

World Shakespeare Festival in conjunction with the 2012 Summer Olympics in London:
World Shakespeare Festival

Shakespeare Links:
[|Shakespeare's Globe] [|The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust] [|Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Archive Catalogue] [|Royal Shakespeare Company] [|RSC Performance Database] [|Folger Shakespeare Library] American Shakespeare Center [|British Library's Shakespeare in Quarto] [|British Library's Changing Language: Shakespeare] [|British Library's Landmarks in Printing: Shakespeare's First Folio] [|PBS's "In Search of Shakespeare"] [|Frontline's "The Shakespeare Mystery"] [|Shakespeare Authorship] [|Complete Works of William Shakespeare @ MIT] [|The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble] [|University of Virginia Library's Shakespeare Resources] [|Emory University's Shakespeare Illustrated] [|Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet] [|The Shakespeare Society's Resources Page] [|Explore Shakespeare with Google] [|Open Source Shakespeare] [|Open Shakespeare] [|Internet Public Library: Shakespeare Bookshelf] [|Internet Shakespeare Editions]

**Elizabeth I Links:**
[|BBC British History--Tudors] [|Queen Elizabeth I] [|Renaissance--The Elizabethan World] [|Shakespeare Resource Center--Elizabethan England] [|Description of Elizabethan England, 1577]

**Dream Links:**
[|Dream at Shakespeare's Globe] [|Dream at RSC] [|RSC Plays in Focus: A Midsummer Night's Dream] [|Dream at Open Air Regents Park]

Stuff You Missed in History Class Podcasts:
How the Black Death Worked What happened to the lost colony at Roanoke? Rival Queens: Mary Stuart and Elizabeth I The Virgin Queen's Great Love

Custom Google Search:
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Scenes from the Play:
Act I Scene 2 -- We meet the Mechanicals...

A Midsummer Night's Dream Podcast:
You can download various recordings of Dream on iTunes. You can also listen to it on the LibraryVox website.

Influences and Inspirations for //Dream//:
"The Knight's Tale" in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales "The Life of Theseus" in Plutarch's //Parallel Lives of the Greeks and Romans//, translated by Sir Thomas North Ovid's //Metamorphoses//, translated by Arthur Golding Shakespeare's Sources

Adventures in Shakespeare:
Click here to go to my Shakespeare blog, which traces the two weeks in July 2008 that I spent in England studying Shakespeare and //A Midsummer Night's Dream//: []

Audio Clips from Ms. Barth's walking tour of London:
Click here to hear an audio clip about crossing the Thames River in Shakespeare's London. Click here to hear an audio clip on The Rose Theatre. Click here to hear an audio clip on London.

What's Shaking? Shakespeare in the News:

 * Such Tweet Sorrow? Romeo and Juliet is being performed via twitter and facebook. No, I'm not kidding.
 * The authorship controversy rages on! Is someone else behind Shakespeare's plays? Read this recent Wall Street Journal article, "The Shakespeare Whodunit" by Alexandra Alter published in the April 2, 2010 WSJ, and find out what a Columbia University professor thinks. There's even a movie in the works!
 * James Shapiro's new book on the authorship controversy, //Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?//, is creating quite a stir! Read an interview with him here at the Folger Shakespeare Library's website.
 * Here's an article about the movie being made about the authorship controversy -- from the director of //2012//. Ugh! Click here to read "Alas, Poor Shakespeare" by James Shapiro in the LA Times.
 * A lost Shakespeare play discovered? Click here to read the article: Centuries later, lost Shakespeare 'found'?
 * Stolen Shakespeare?! An antiques dealer is accused of having stolen a rare First Folio from the Durham University library in December 1998. When he took it to the Folger Shakespeare Library recently to verify its authenticity, the librarians quickly realized that the priceless volume he had in his possession was stolen. Here's another article: Man held over theft of Shakespeare first folio.
 * Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is an Oxfordian! According to [|the article "Justice Stevens Renders an Opinion on Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays," published in the April 18-19, 2009 Wall Street Journal]Justice Stevens believes evidence shows that Shakespeare did not write everything attributed to him, but rather 17th Earl of Oxford Edward de Vere did! Oxfordians believe that "only a nobleman could have produced writings so replete with intimate depictions of courtly life and exotic settings far beyond England" (Bravin A1), so Shakespeare, son of a working-class glover from Stratford, could never have written such rich and complex works. [|Check out the related blog entry from Wall Street Journal online.]
 * [|An article in the New York Times looks at a death mask created in 1616 and asks, is it William Shakespeare'?] "Is a death mask found in a ragpicker's shop in 1842 that of William Shakespeare? The British weekly New Scientist says the mask, bearing the date 1616 and the high forehead, prominent nose and beard associated with Shakespeare, could be, Agence France-Presse reported" (Van Gelder).
 * April 23rd is both the day William Shakespeare was born (in 1564) and died (in 1616). Want some ideas on how to celebrate this important date? Check out this link a student submitted: [|"5 Ways to Celebrate Shakespeare's Birthday"]

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"Portrait of Shakespeare Unveiled, 399 Years Late" by Robert Mackey Published: March 9, 2009 Shakespeare scholar unveiled a painting in London in 2009 that he claims was made during the Bard's lifetime -- the first such likeness known to exist. [|Click here to go to the article.]
 * A new portrait of Shakespeare was recently discovered in 2009!**

"Unique portrait of Shakespeare unveiled" Published: Mon Mar 9, 2009 [|Click here to go to the article.]

Click here to listen to a podcast about the Cobbe Portrait from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust!


 * [[image:TheTheatreSite.jpg align="left"]]The site of The Theatre, the first theatre Shakespeare worked at and the forerunner to The Globe, was found recently. //Dream// was performed at this site! The timbers of //this site// were the ones that Shakespeare and his friends supposedly pushed across the frozen Thames to build The Globe.**

"Shakespeare's first theatre found" Published: Monday, March 9, 2009 [|Click here to go to the article.]

"Shakespeare's lost theatre uncovered..." Published: 09 Mar 2009 [|Click here to go to the article.]

media type="custom" key="13694994" Click here for more information on the archeological dig.
 * The site of New Place, the grand Stratford-upon-Avon house to which Shakespeare retired, is currently undergoing archeological exploration!**

Shakespeare where you least expect it...
Did you know the "Wedding March" (you know...dum dum da-dum dum dum da-dum) originates from a version of //Dream//? Click here to read an article about Mendelssohn's "Wedding March."

A Levi's commercial featuring Bottom and Titania (apparently, nothing is sacred...): media type="custom" key="5548007"

And nothing like a Mickey Mouse version: media type="custom" key="5548017" media type="youtube" key="1GQ61ydpYnw" height="315" width="420"

Or a Beatles version: media type="custom" key="5548031"

The Animaniacs' version of Puck's goodbye: media type="youtube" key="jXMfMID3VaA?rel=0" height="390" width="480" Gorgeous very simple animation from a high school student: media type="custom" key="8703538" Who Knew? media type="custom" key="9292288"

Spring Break Extra Credit Opportunity:
Watch a film version of //Dream// and write a one to two paragraph review. 1999 version with Kevin Klein, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Christian Bale. 1968 version with Helen Mirren. 1935 version with James Cagney.