Working on a W. Shakespeare play - initial responses

     We have been told after we finish with the Anton Pavlovich Chekhov plays that we were going to focus our attention on Shakespeare. Yesterday, on 3rd of December, we made some diagrams with the thoughts that came in our minds when we thought about studying the famous British writer.

      In this photo you can see the thoughts that my team had about it. We didn’t show much interest and excitement towards the play “Macbeth”, because we are so used to Shakespeare and we’ve seen or heard so much about this subject that there’s nearly nothing left to discover. There’s one word I’ve written on this sketch that I’d like to talk about: “cliché”. When Shakespeare wrote the plays, the subjects and the way he approached them were new, interesting to read and empathize with for the people at that time. In fact, he had and still has such a big success that some of the characters, some of the actions, subjects and behaviors were recreated by others again and again. This way, some of these above became clichés, like the love story of Romeo and Juliet (people even copied actions to prove their love in real life from the play and they did it so often that these actions became common and clichés). So when I am saying this I’m referring to what people turned into some of his plays' subjects.      When we had our diagram full of let’s say not so good opinions, we talked a little and established that studying Shakespeare has its advantages and that we should be excited about every play we’re studying, because, how Rob said too, we are going to have projects that we maybe don’t like so much and that’s fine, but we have to keep our professionalism, give our interest and find the excitement to play it, because if you enjoy it, the audience will enjoy it too and the fact that you don’t like it shouldn’t be their problem; they’re there to watch, you’re there to do what you love most, to play.




 
 Here you can see the other teams’ opinions and thoughts about William Shakespeare.