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[alexmegami]

So I should really be getting to class. However, I am instead putting up a minor to-do list to reference from Pat's place (and giving a shoutout for tattoo ideas, again).

So, to recap:

I need a Shakespeare topic to write a 10-page essay on. I am going to throw my narrowed-down choices out to the audience, because I know you all love Shakespeare (please remember that I am limited to the following plays: Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus, Richard III, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, I Henry IV)

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1. Does Shakespeare contain (control, domesticate, make safe or unthreatening) the potentially subversive behaviour of women in his plays? If so, or if not so, how?

2. Discuss Shakespeare's exploration of one of the following: the struggle for identity, personal identity and social identity; OR the threat of social disintegration and the drive for order; OR the politics of Shakespeare as historian and historiographer.

3. According to Arthur Miller, the essence of Shakespearian tragedy is "the revolutionary questioning of the stable environment." In what ways do Shakespeare's earliest attempts at tragedy illustrate Miller's claim?

4. Discuss the significance of Shakespeare's representation of one of the following subjects:
-racial, ethnic, or national differences
-silence and/or silent characters
-names and naming in the dialogue of the plays
-eavesdropping scenes or references
-good name and/or sexual slander
-the preternatural: witches, fairies, spirits, ghosts

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So:

-decide on my topic for that essay (and which texts I'll be using)
-finish the cross-references for Information Design; hand in
-prepare 3 more arguments for the midterm tomorrow
-look over the CS100 example midterm, maybe even glance at the textbook

...all that, before and after Vampire. :P

I think that's really it for this weekend. Oh, and
-read Richard III again
-read Tufte ch. 1-3

Next post: options I may or may not have for grad school!

Comments

[dysan27.livejournal.com]

On the tattoo front in Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" the have designs for the names of the 4 elements in a very gotheic print and are ambigrams ie they can be read both right-side up and upside-down.
*Searching*
*Searching*
Ha, found them.
http://www.johnlangdon.net/angelsanddemons.html
I also forgot that the title is one too.

[alexmegami]

That's actually really cool. I might use the earth/air/fire/water one.

[dysan27.livejournal.com]

I think when I saw the first one in the book I spent five minutes spinning the book around in amazement before I could continue on.

[alexmegami]

Hahah. That's cool. (Now I'm looking up ambigrams. Way to go.)

[yuehmei.livejournal.com]

Do your essay on #1!!!!! That's what I would do! There's so much in the plays! So much!!!

I miss 10 page essays. Now I've been reduced to 500 words. :/

Wow, I got a little too excited about Shakespeare there! ;)

[cellophanedeity.livejournal.com]

Ali!!

You don't check email...

Come to my birthday party? Email me?

Please? ^_^

[alexmegami]

I do check e-mail, that's how I get these comments - I called your cell! (Do you not have your cell anymore? :( )

Anyway, Pat and I will both be there. I will also e-mail this to you.