11.25.2013
Hamlet NY Times video contest
This looks like an awesome contest for students--hopefully some of mine will submit, especially since their own Hamlet videos are due the week after Thanksgiving!
11.10.2013
Another time, another place
Hamlet has been performed thousands of times across the centuries, and while many productions strive to recreate the dark, medieval setting of thirteenth-century Denmark, other presentations of the play reimagine or update the setting to highlight the universality of Shakespeare's characters and themes.
For this week's post, I'd like you to imagine how Hamlet might work in an alternate setting. We've seen a little bit of the Ethan Hawke Hamlet, set in the cutthroat corporate world of Manhattan in 2000. How could you translate the characters and themes of Hamlet into another time or place? Detail how you would envision a reimagining of the play's setting, and then in a separate paragraph select one scene from the play and describe how you would stage that scene to embody the setting you've chosen.
Have fun with this post-- show off your creativity!!
11.06.2013
11.01.2013
Hamlet 3.1--Who gets the most famous soliloquy right?
For this week's post, conduct a search on YouTube for two different interpretations of this critical soliloquy. You can simply search for "To Be or Not to Be," and you should find multiple clips. Please embed each video in your blog post, (try to embed the actual videos, not just the links) so your readers can see the videos you chose, and write a short comparison/contrast of the two versions of the soliloquy. What do you notice about what each Hamlet emphasizes in his delivery of this speech? Which version do you prefer and why?
Then, for Thursday's class, please be sure to comment on one of your peers' posts.
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