Find an adaptation or transformation of a play. Choose an adaptation with some significant differences from the original, such as transposed plots and characters into a variety of different settings and historical contexts. Here are some examples: • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999) or A Midsummer Night’s DREAM (2018) • […]
Develop an interpretive thesis that explicates Shakespeare’s development of a theme in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Your essay should offer an engagement with some of the formal features we’ve discussed as you analyse your play or poem (for example, plot, characterization, diction (word choice), verse form, alliteration/assonance, figurative language (metaphor, simile, imagery), rhetorical figures, etc.), […]
Textbook: Chapter 8 Play from the Internet, YouTube, DVD, iTunes, Amazon, Netflix, etc. 1 primary source (written version of selected play) Instructions Plays are meant to be performed, rather than read. The purpose of dramatic arts often extends far beyond the words written on a page; staging, lighting, costumes intonation, expression, and audience experience are […]
