Project Abstract Assignment

What needs to be included in your project abstract?

1. Give your project a Working Title

2. First paragraph

               a. What literary feature(s) of the play do you want to examine?

               b. How will this analysis help you think more critically or deeply or creatively about the themes/characters/ etc. in the play?

3. Second Paragraph

               a. What scene or scenes (or parts of scenes) will you stage in order to explore your analysis?

               b. How will you stage and perform this scene in order to highlight your analysis?

4. Final Paragraph

               a. How many people are required and who do you propose to play which parts?

               b. How will you ensure that each group member has an equal share in creating and performing in this project?

Scenes from Acts 2 and 3

Check out these great performances:

Shakespeare's Language Modernized

A lot of you wrote this week about film adaptations that modernized Shakespeare's traditional language, changing the Iambic Pentameter and Elizabethan English into more contemporary, easier-to-understand, prose. This week, a famous Shakespeare festival in Oregon announced that it would be hiring playwrights to modernize the language of all of Shakespeare's plays. Two articles follow which comment on this decision, the first criticizing it and the second downplaying that criticism.

 1. From The New York Times: "Shakespeare in Modern English?"

2. From The New Yorker: "Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare's Language"

IB Lit and Performance Interprets "The Balcony Scene"

Check out these awesome videos from the 6 groups (both classes) -- they are so much fun to watch!