3. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE & The English Renaissance (16th Century) – English Literature I
Instructions:
1. Work in the assigned group.
2. If you have a video assigned to you, watch it carefully and take down notes. Put all the notes of each of the members of the group in a Google Doc so that ALL of you can work at editing it. You are expected to write a summary of the information provided in it and post it as a group (no individual posts are necessary). You will see that next to your video, you have a PDF with the same title. The PDF is the script of the video, i.e. you can read the PDF first, and then watch the video for a better understanding of what Professor Jonatan Bate says.
Your text should not exceed 2 medium-sized paragraphs. When you start your summary, specify who the speakers in the video / podcast are.
Your text should not exceed 2 medium-sized paragraphs. When you start your summary, specify who the speakers in the video / podcast are.
3. If you have a document or podcast assigned to you, proceed in the say way as with a video (see Step 2 above).
4. The students who must do the make-up tasks – Gustavo Duarte and Melina Delbón- have to talk about their group summary in class. They are expected to study it and be ready to tell the class about it on THU 31ST, MAY.
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DEADLINE: Wed 30th, May - 12.00 p.m.
Group 1: Loreley and Ariana Rubianes – Carolina Corti – Priscila Quiroz – Mailén Borda – Rodrigo López – Katerina Banegas. "How did Shakespeare get so popular?"
Group 2: Micaela Valiente – Paula Quatrín – Giuliana Vittori – Luciana Mandel – Mailen Aguirre-Lionela Velázquez – Cecilia Montini."Where did Shakespeare live?"
Group 3:Paula Rivera – Diego Bogado – Micaela Ramírez – Brian Segovia – Luisina Tourn – Malena Lodi – Leandro Altamirano.Understanding Shakespeare's Sonnets
Group 4: Paulina Gómez – Emanuel Massín – Rocío Altamirano – Laura Gómez – Gimena Fernández – Mariel Spesot – Yamila Moschén The Parish Register
Group 5: Melina Delbón – Gabriel Malagueño – Gustavo Duarte – Natalí Aguirre – Leisa Martínez.
Group 6: Guiliana Mathieu – Daiana Solari – Ludmila Suligoy – Fabio Moreyra – Diego Emanuel Ledesma .Acting and Writing
The Gold Ring
ReplyDeleteIn 1582, Master William Shakespeare, at the age of 18, married Anne Hathaway, who was a bit older than him. Discoveries show that Shakespeare was one of the three only men who married so young in his village. The main reason was that Anne was pregnant. This marriage remains a mystery, since we don’t know how his love to Anne influenced in his life and works. What we do know, is that they stayed married all their lives, although he was not faithful to her. First, they had one daughter, Susanna, and then they had twins, Hamnet and Judith.
In 1818, Benjamin Robert Hayden wrote to a close friend, John Keats, that a gold ring and seal belonging to William Shakespeare was found. The ring had the W.S initials and a true lover’s knot between. However, we can’t state this was one of Shakespeare belongings, neither if the knot symbolises his love to Anne Hathaway. But we know for certain that this ring is a sign of the cult of Shakespeare.
Students: Natalí Aguirre, Delbón Melina, Duarte Gustavo, Malagueño Gabriel, Martinez Leisa.
Speaker: Professor Jonathan Bate.
DeleteGROUP 2: Aguirre Mailen, Mandel Luciana, Montini Cecilia, Quatrin Paula, Valiente Micaela, Velazquez Lionela, Vittori Giuliana.
ReplyDeleteWhere did Shakespeare live?
According to Dr. Tara Hamling, Shakespeare birthplace was in Stratford at Henley street in a Renaissance modern house own by his father, John Shakespeare. During his adolescence he spent a lot of time living away from his family home. He was a lodger in London where he developed most part of his career. In addition, Professor Stanley Wells suggests that there is evidence of Shakespeare lodging there with the Mountjoy family. This part of Williams’ life was recorded in a book called The Lodger, written by Charles Nicholl, in which the close relationship between Shakespeare and the family is well described.
Dr. Tara Hamling also claimed that in 1597 Shakespeare bought a property known as New Place in Stratford, setting out his status as a gentleman in the community. He lived there up to his death in 1616, with all his family including his cousin Thomas Greene and servants. Taking into account Dr. Paul Edmondson’s researches, we can assume that the New Place was a big house where Shakespeare invested a lot of money redecorating it with modern features such as large windows, chimneys and paintings according to the Renaissance style. Unfortunately, no much information about New Place is provided since it was demolished in 1759.
To sum up, although Williams has spent a lot of time in London due to business, he continued all his life regarding Stratford as his home where he lived with his wife and children. In New Place Shakespeare found the peace and quiet he needed to compose his magnificent literature works.
There are some minor grammar mistakes ( 'Shakespeare HAD spent...'; 'Shakespeare'S birthplace',etc) but all in all- your summary contains the most important information. Well done.
DeleteYou should have said who the speakers are:
Delete1)Professor Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust;
2)Dr Tara Hamling, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Birmingham University
3)Professor Stanley Wells, Honorary President of the SBT t;
4)Dr Paul Edmonson, Head of Research and Knowledge at the SBTL;
5)Ben Crystal, Actor, Director and Producer .
Group 3:Paula Rivera – Diego Bogado – Micaela Ramírez – Brian Segovia – Luisina Tourn – Malena Lodi – Leandro Altamirano.
ReplyDeleteUnderstanding Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Speakers: Bate, Jonathan; Wells, Stanley; Edmondson, Paul.
During the 16th century, Shakespeare’s sonnets were not as successful as in the 19th and 20th centuries, unlike the plays which were reprinted due to public demand. However, the prevailing fashion of writing sonnets had slightly faded away by 1609, thus the sonnets were not reprinted in Shakespeare’s lifetime nor included on his first compendium of great works. It was later on that the sonnets caught the attention of people, mostly due to the fact that they cover the experience of love with great intensity, somehow defining the conception of what love is. Besides, the autobiographical ones allow us to understand Shakespeare’s deepest feelings.
One of the recurring motifs of his work was the sort of battle between intense spiritual bond and a physical sexual desire. Another point to have into consideration is the lack of specific dates on his sonnets, except for one of them, in which it mentions the eclipse of the moon, probably related to Queen Elizabeth I’s death. During her reign, Shakespeare’s sonnets were about war, but in James I’s time they were about peace.
Another important issue that can be added to the understanding of his sonnets is the fact that characters never have a name, unlike the majority of those written and published around the same time. It is also suspected that they are addressed to different people throughout the years, who haven’t been identified and the author refers to them as the lovely boy, a young man or the dark lady. Shakespeare’s sonnets were meant for a private audience and are to be considered each individually and not a sequence as a whole.
You've forgotten to say who the speakers are: Professors Jonathan Bate, Stanley Wells and Paul Edmonson. However, your summary contains the most important information given by the scholars.
DeleteI'd like to add something, if I may:
Wells suggests that Henry Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton, could be the addressee or inspirer of some sonnets because he was SH’s patron and friend. Bate also says that Wriothesley could even be the author as the initials WH appear in the first publication (Wriothesley Henry).
Well done!
GROUP 4: Paulina Gómez – Emanuel Massín – Rocío Altamirano – Laura Gómez – Gimena Fernández – Mariel Spesot – Yamila Moschén
ReplyDeleteTHE PARISH REGISTER
Speaker: Jonathan Bate
John Shakespeare, a glover, who came from a farming family in a village called Snitterfield, but moved from the land into trade, came into Stratford and set up business making gloves. He married a woman called Mary Arden, also from farming stock, who came from a local village called Wilmcote. In 1564, they had their first child, a son. It’s in the parish register from the Holy Trinity Church, in Stratford, that we see the name of Shakespeare for the first time: 26th of April, 1564, Guliemus filius Johannes Shakespeare - William, son of John Shakespeare.
This document was written within two or three days of the child coming into the world, so we don’t know for sure which day he was born. Traditionally, his birthday is celebrated on the 23rd of April, St. George’s Day. Within a few months of Shakespeare’s birth, Stratford was hit by plague. A huge number of the people of the small town were wiped out, the Shakespeare family survived. He was always in his way a lucky writer, he was fortunate in his place of birth because it was somewhere where he could get a good education, and he had some lucky breaks when his theatrical career took off.
Yes, indeed. Well done.
DeleteGroup 6: Guiliana Mathieu – Daiana Solari – Ludmila Suligoy – Fabio Moreyra – Diego Emanuel Ledesma.
ReplyDeleteSpeaker: Professor Jonathan Bate
Acting and Writing
In Shakespeare early twenties, he was facing big economical problems in his family business because of his father, who has many debts. So, he decided to go to London to look for his fortune. Regards this around 1588 he made his way in the new profession of the theatre. By 1590 he has become an actor. He had been working for different companies with a group of actors and there he knew his best friend, Richard Burdage. William made him the actor of all his great parts (Making him the original Hamlet, Romeo, King Lear).
However, theatres had to close because of a plague , so he decided to write poetry. He made contact with an old friend, Richard Field, who had a printing company. Field printed “Venus and Adonis”, the first poem of shakespeare, based on the book that inspired the most throughout his career: Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
It's not very clear what you mean by "Regards this around 1588".
DeleteCareful with your tenses: "By 1590 he HAD BECOME an actor..."
All in all, a good summary. Good job!
Group Nº 1 - Loreley and Ariana Rubianes – Carolina Corti – Priscila Quiroz – Mailén Borda – Rodrigo López – Katerina Banegas.
ReplyDeleteHost: Jennifer Reid
Guests: Professor Michael Dobson. Dr Elizabeth Dollimore. Professor Stanley Wells. Dr Paul Edmondson. Ben Crystal
How did Shakespeare get so popular?
There is a great number of reasons why Shakespeare became worldwide known and remains popular still after more than 400 years.
Michael Dobson mentions Shakespeare’s poems being sensational from the very beginning, as early as 1593, and even the poets and critics of his lifetime praised him with admiration according to Paul Edmondson. What is more, as Elizabeth Dollimore states, romantic poets revered him after his death, often carrying portraits of him; and, during the Victorian era, Shakespeare was introduced into the educational system of the UK and stayed there ever since, bolstering his presence within the public.
Shakespeare’s plays also withstood the closing of the theatres during a momentarily republic England around 1660, and both Paul and Elizabeth agree it was due to the possibility of adaptation of his plays. It was the involvement of the people, the actors and directors of the plays what enabled them to survive, to evolve, to be reworked; and, as Michael affirms, there is a perpetual opportunity for regeneration, translation and growth. Stanley Wells concurs that it is the new styles in which the plays are performed and adapted what gives them a new resonance and it is a new experience to be witnessed and enjoyed. Furthermore, Paul Edmondson explains how Shakespeare is exported to new cultures and wherever the British Empire goes, Shakespeare goes with it, bringing new opportunities for translations around the world. Paul also acknowledges prominent events that propelled Shakespeare’s fame: John Fletcher’s sequel to “The Taming of the Shrew” together with Nahum Tate’s new ending for “King Lear” and David Garrick’s Jubilee in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Everywhere Shakespeare was being praised, adapted and celebrated but what was undeniably the fundamental reason for Shakespeare’s popularity, according to Ben Crystal, was his ability to write about being human. The sheer talent to evoke universal emotions which anyone can relate, made him the man of the millennium.
Next time, use the scholars' surnames, not their names because they're not your friends.
DeleteGreat summary, very well done!