William Strachey, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Jamestowne
Strachey’s story had me on the edge of my seat, intensely caught up in his word choice that made the drama come alive…resulting in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Historical Sewing and Time Travels
Tag: Shakespeare
Renaissance Masquerade Games, Intrigue, Spies, Danger
Representing 1469, 1484, 1513, 1572, 1587, and 1598, I’ll let you keep guessing who we are, since this is a masquerade. Then we will reveal who we are.
Rhetoric Literature: Ranking our favorite Shakespeare DVDs
Queried by friends who lent us videos, I’ve was asked which was our favorite. Commentary follows of our growing perceptions of Shakespeare favorites.
Rhetoric Literature: Casually performing Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare was meant to be performed, to hear the beautiful language with rhythmic iambic pentameter aka reading his plays is 2D but hearing them is 3D.
Did Shakespeare exit The Tempest with Prospero?
Due to timing of this play in Shakespeare’s final days, some think Prospero represents the Bard ready to retire from the stage.
Rhetoric Literature: King Lear, Cordelia, and Anne Shirley?
1660s England saw Parliament dissolved, their king beheaded, and Oliver Cromwell’s rise to power, and found King Lear too depressing. They needed it tamed.
Rhetoric Literature: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and James I
This tragic psychological play examines a man who seeks political power after hearning a prophecy he’d one day become king, and in the process becomes mad.
Rhetoric Literature: The darkness of Shakespeare’s Othello
Set in 1870 Cyprus, four hundred years later than the original storyline, the Royal Shakespeare Theater play was extremely dark in tone for this deep tragedy.
Rhetoric Literature: Much Ado about Nothing with Branagh
A dual romance, our favorite story line was of the romance portrayed between Branagh and Emma Thompson, which as great as their performance in Henry V.
Rhetoric Literature: Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew
Now that we were familiar with the basic play, we watched modern remakes, where many various elements are changed while keeping the overall theme of the story.
