Question

You read two of Shakespeare's plays in this unit: Hamlet and Twelfth Night. Choose one of these scenes from the two plays to reread. Hamlet, Act III, Scene i Twelfth Night, Act II Scene IV Part A Locate two different performances of the scene you chose online. When you search the Internet, include the act and scene in your search terms. Which two versions did you choose? Include the URL of your sources.

Answer 1

Answer:

The allusion proves that Claudius killed Hamlet’s father. ... Pyrrhus ends up killing Priam, the King of Troy himself, who was responsible for the war, and therefore, the death of his father Achilles. ... In this comparison, Claudius is Priam, Hamlet is Pyrrhus and Gertrude is Hecuba.

Answer 2

You read two of Shakespeare's plays in this unit: Hamlet and Twelfth Night.

• Shakespeare is a literary classic. Shakespeare was a fantastic author, thus this occurrence has a good side.
• However, it also has a drawback since, by elevating Shakespeare, we corrupt literary history. Shakespeare was a great poet, but Sidney and Spenser were as well in his day, as were other poets in earlier eras. Shakespeare was just as much a part of his time as any other great writer, despite his eminence. His writings, which date from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, are influenced by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century philosophy.
• We could, however, wonder why Shakespeare is always covered in English literature classes. Although he did write a handful of poems, the most well-known of which are "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece," most people typically associate Shakespeare with his plays. (Incidentally, plays were hardly regarded as literature in Shakespeare's day.
• Shakespeare's works actually contributed to the idea that drama was more than just a form of entertainment. Shakespeare ought not to be studied as theatre, then. Should theatre arts departments rather than English departments teach Shakespeare courses? Shakespeare is preferred. Shakespeare was a poet who who created plays. If we simply read things as poetry or as drama, we pervert them.

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