Monday, February 14, 2011

Making a Play


So, after much consideration and analysis Martin and I have decided to write a play based on our observations of several of Shakespeare’s works, as well as a few other key plays that relate to the themes that we are discovering.  I think this will be a good opportunity to synthesize my learning, and to put into action a few of the specifics that I have observed as linguistic trends.  We have a lot of ideas and plan to record our journey from concept to concrete on our individual blogs.  To keep them from being mirror blogs of each other, I will be putting in a lot of the back reasoning behind the choices I make in crafting the play so as to show the relationship between the things I study, and the play.  If all goes according to plan we should have the plot outline completed, and a handful of scenes for the play done by the end of next week.  As I post the ideas and progress of the play, please feel free to provide as much input as you would like.  This is a bit ambitious, but it is the overall end project that I hope to do for the course since it will reflect the things learned throughout this course in an engaging way, or at least I sure hope that you find this more entertaining than a term paper.

Comments (7)

Loading... Logging you in...
  • Logged in as
I love this idea! Is this play going to all be in Shakespearean language? Or are these linguistic trends going to be more subtle? And is our class going to see this play performed? I hope so!
1 reply · active 751 weeks ago
Thank you for bringing up the question of language! There is still a lot of debate about the language that we will use in it, but right now it looks like it will me a very specific mix of renaissance English, and modern English. Once we have more scene work completed and posted i'll look forward to your comments on the rhetoric. Thank you.
This is the best idea I have seen in a long time. Do you have a genre yet?
1 reply · active 751 weeks ago
Yes we have a genre. The play will be a comedy in the traditional sense that it will end with a marriage.
Your ideas for the play sounded really good! You guys are brave to do this.
2 replies · active 751 weeks ago
Thanks Brooke! And by the way, if we do get this done in a reasonable amount of time to allow prosuction, would you be interested in helping with that? Thanks.
Yeah! That would be great.

Post a new comment

Comments by