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Shakespeare
On-Line Reference Hunt
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You
will be going to specific Internet sites and on-line electronic resources to answer questions about the
Bard and his works. To go to the Internet
site, click on the URL – the text is hyper linked to that site. 1. Go to this website : http://www.onlineshakespeare.com/timeline.htm This
site has a timeline covering 4 topics during Shakespeare’s life and times.
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Under
Year, scroll down to the time period 1600-1609. q
Under
Compositions you see that Shakespeare wrote at least 15 plays during
this time period, two of them being Hamlet
and Much Ado About Nothing. a. In
1603 what happened on the British throne? 2. http://www.shakespeare-online.com q Go to faq (frequently asked
questions) on the left bar under directory q Go to General Shakespeare Questions.
q Find the question: What
can you tell me about the group ‘The King’s Men’? a. Why did they change their name? (This
acting troupe was first called “Chamberlain’s Men.”) b. What
did this mean for them? c. Who
is the author/publisher of this site? d. When
was this site last updated? 3. http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/timeline/timeline.htm Look at the Shakespeare timeline. q Click on 1599 The Great Globe Shakespeare’s early works (to 1594) can
be divided into 4 groups. a.
What
are they? Name the 4 groups: b.
Give
one example from Shakespeare’s plays for
each group: c.
Who
is the author/publisher of this site? d.
When
was this site last updated?
·
to
create new word forms from existing roots (e.g. lonely from alone,
another example is dawn which came from dawning) ·
to
combine words (e.g. bloodstained and watchdog) ·
to
alter spellings and pronunciations (e.g. alligator previously known as
aligarto) ·
to
reach into Greek (e.g. academe) or Latin (e.g. invulnerable) ·
to
use onomatopoeia, the imitation of a sound (e.g. bump) Go to this
site: http://www.rhymezone.com/r/gwic.cgi?Path=shakespeare/coinages// q From the list of words coined by
Shakespeare, Choose one noun and one verb. a.
Write
down the word. b.
For
each word, give a definition (look up in dictionary if you need to) c.
For
each word, write down one example of one of Shakespeare’s play where the
usage of the word was coined. 5. Go to EBSCO under Subscription Resources on the
LBMS library page. q Click on q On the search line type in “Sonnets made
EZ” (or copy and paste the title from here)— found in Literary Cavalcade
magazine. At the end of this article is another
article titled “Shakespeare Rules…TV”. The article starts out by saying, “When
you think Shakespeare, you probably don’t think The Simpsons, but maybe you
should.” It goes on to describe some
of the allusions to Shakespeare that have shown up in The Simpson
scripts. a. Choose
one of the examples of using Shakespeare on the TV show and paraphrase what
the article says about it. 6. From
the LBMS library page click on Subscription Resources and go to Gale Student
Resource Center Gold. This is a subscription database with all kinds of
information. q
On
the search line, type in: The
stars of Hamlet: Shakespeare's astronomical inspiration
(can copy and paste this title in search line).
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Click
on the title to see the entire article which talks about the play Hamlet and how astronomy may have
played a part in the story. q Read the first 4 paragraphs after Full Text :COPYRIGHT 1998 Sky
Publishing Corp. q Read the last paragraph under A Shakespearean Memory a. Is it possible
that Shakespeare based the opening lines of Hamlet on an astronomical event? Why or why not?
7 . To answer the questions below, go to: http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/globe/globe.htm
Scroll down to the section “Watching a play.” a. What was different about plays performed
at the Globe Theatre compared to plays of today? List at least four differences. Scroll down to “End of an Era”. b. Why was the Globe closed in 1642? Be specific. 8. http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Shakespeare.html Go to this site and click on “The
Plays.” Now go to “Hamlet.” This website explores paintings of scenes
from Shakespeare’s plays and their influences on one another. Choose the painting Richard
Dadd. The Closet Scene from “Hamlet”
(1840) a. What
scene is this painting portraying? b. What
is happening between the characters? 9. http://www.bardweb.net/england.html Shakespeare lived and wrote during the
Elizabethan Age. a. What
things made the Elizabethan Age what it was?
Give at least two examples. 10. Go to Subscription Resources
on the LBMS library page. Go to World
Book Student Encyclopedia. To search: q Type in William Shakespeare then click on q In the left hand column (yellow
background) click on “England of Shakespeare’s day”. q
Scroll
down the page to Elizabethan Society. q
The topic
sentence in the fourth paragraph states “Certainly Shakespeare’s play reveal
a shift from optimism to pessimism.” a. Read the rest of paragraph four, and
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