For my final project for this course, I decided to do an adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays, Hamlet. I chose the famous “To be or not to be” soliloquy for many reasons, one of them being that it is a soliloquy I had taken upon myself to learn a few months ago.…
Assignment #4 – Google Ngram viewer (my new fave thing)
So I wanted to try something new for this project, despite my new-found love for Wordle, and so I checked out the Google Ngram Viewer. Being able to see the mentions of words or phrases over such a large span of time is absolutely amazing. So I started with looking at "William Shakespeare" and "Much…
“Butterfly” – Shakespeare in Community Assignment #4
Before I talk about how I broke my project, I want to talk a bit about the speech itself. I chose Helena's "How happy some o'er other some can be" speech from Act 1 Scene 1. It's one of my favourites because I think it is one of the most true to life depictions of…
Shakespeare In Community: “The Fairies’ Midwife” – Assignment #2
I loved the idea of making a Wordle of the Queen Mab speech from Romeo and Juliet, as I had heard about this as a teaching tool at SAA. However while some of the elements of the cloud didn’t surprise me at all, I was still left with a few puzzles to tease out. I…
Shakespeare in Community: Assignment #1 – First Words
“I learn in this letter” – Much Ado About Nothing. I chose this first line primarily because I have not had the opportunity to do much scholarly work on Much Ado, yet it is one of my favourites to see. This line holds so many possibilities and has been so much fun to explore! One…
A View from the Box 