Elizabethan clothing

 http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/elizabethanclothes.html

Hamlet rabbit hole

Get lost in this website's Hamlet posts—some really good stuff.

Ophelia's flowers:
 https://thebillshakespeareproject.com/2015/05/hamlet-ophelia-and-her-flowers-symbols/

Ophelia's death:

https://thebillshakespeareproject.com/2015/05/hamlet-ophelia-and-her-flowers-aftermath/

(An opinion on that)
https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/hamlet/ophelia

Scansion, Hamlet and Ophelia:

https://thebillshakespeareproject.com/2015/05/scansion-for-clues-hitting-pause-on-hamlet/

Scanning to be or not to be:

https://poemshape.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/the-annotated-to-be-or-not-to-be/

The Gothic at the British Library

So much juicy stuff in here:

 https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/themes/the-gothic

Melancholy, the four humours, and Hamlet

 https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/WsT4Ex8AAHruGfWf

Hamlet: critical interpretations

A good historical summary / overview of critical interpretations of Hamlet through the ages:

https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/critical-approaches-to-hamlet/

Podcast with some juicy bits on Iago

http://www.radiolab.org/story/180166-why-be-bad/

Oxford University Othello lecture

Fantastic opportunity to hear from Oxford University on Othello - get listening!! https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/othello

Tragedy movies: holiday viewing

1) Pick a film from the below.


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Cool Hand Luke

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

There Will Be Blood

The Wrestler

Dancer in the Dark

House of Sand and Fog

Grizzly Man (documentary)


Se7en


Papillon

2) Watch it TWICE.

3) The second time, make notes to prepare a 5 minute presentation of 5 slides. Each slide should tackle the following:
1) Summary of the plot and its major character.
2) How the character meets tragic conventions
3) How the plot meets tragic conventions
4) Aristotelian conventions that are covered in the craft (thought, diction, spectacle etc)
5) Which form of tragedy the film most closely resembles (Senecan, Greek, Renaissance, Early Modern etc)
6) Its success in 'teaching' us or 'changing' us.


Save these to the R drive on your first day back under 'Tragic film presentations'.

From last year's examiner's report...

Do the first 8 things - avoid the last!