Check out this cool assignment I have to do for my Shakespeare class...

[Reverend_Smitty]

I'm taking Shakespeare I for a gen ed (I'm not an English major) and the class is apparently geared for the majors so I thought this would be a hard class. Well turns out we only have to write 2, 3 page papers the first of which is due on Monday. We have to take any character that we've studied so far this semester (we've read Titus Andronicus, Mid-Summer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet) and design a costume for him or her. Basically I get to ramble on for 3 pages about how I would dress a character in a particular scene...How cool is that?!? I was all worried that he would make us do these deep papers about symbolism and the weather or something like that but no.

I really like this guy's approach to Shakespeare he actually encourages us to disagree with him, because literature belongs to every one, not just snooty English professors

[xchrom]

1. the nice thing about shakespeare

is you can let your imagination run wild.

so let out your inner haute courterier.

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. Oh I forgot to mention the best part...

he is encouraging us to write it in first person! Dare I let my freak flag fly and put "I" in my thesis statement? It's a weird experience to say the least

[LynzM]

4. I had an art prof who made us do that...

Try telling an ex-engineering student to put "I" and "opinions" in a paper. :rofl: Didn't go so well the first time. That *does* sound like a neat assignment, though. Don't you love it when profs surprise you, in a good way?

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

3. Cool! I used to love interesting assignments like that.

Any ideas as to what you're going to do?

(And have you seen "Tromeo & Juliet"?)

[Reverend_Smitty]

7. I'm thinking of doing Tamora from Titus...

A dark, sexy Goth chick who happens to be quite evil...I could have fun with that one

[Aristus]

9. In the movie "Titus", Tamora was portrayed by Jessica Lange

and done up like a Goth Queen. Check out the movie and see if it gives you any ideas.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. I think you should study the theatrical design work of Robert Wilson

and then, instead of doing a short paper on just one character, design for the whole cast as well as the set.

What fun!!!!!

Unlike you, I had to do the papers on symbolism and etc., in a serious way. But even so, my prof was also totally cool and a hell of a lot of fun - in my school, the Shakespeare class was an elective, so people were in it because they wanted to be there, and the professor was far more into it than we was in the required History of Art and Literature class that EVERYONE had to take; and my school was only engineering, so that was a whole class of bored engineers, except a few of us, so I'm not surprised he wasn't all that excited about that one. But he really exploded on Shakespeare, and it was great - fantastic dialogue in class discussions, lots of cool ideas tossed around, and a lot of freedom.

[Reverend_Smitty]

6. The second paper is on set design

I get to design the set for a scene in one of the plays, so I guess I could save myself some time later this semester and keep the scene and character consistent

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Cool! You lucky dog!

Make sure to check out Robert Wilson.

I bet he'd come up with an amazing Macbeth or The Tempest or Midsummer Night's Dream