Shakespeare by Bianco - Bordigoni

More than four hundred years have passed, and our beloved William Shakespeare is still a literary icon. He has left us an enduring legacy not only of works of literature with memorable characters and compelling plots, but also of famous expressions and a unique writing style.

Shakespeare Presentation

Here is our Prezi presentation! We wanted to highlight that in spite of being dead for 450 years Shakespeare's still our contemporary... Even when his writing style is complex, the Magazine shows students' engagement with his plays. Apart from that concrete proof that after 450 years he's still alive, we included a useful site that can make our reading pleasant or at least manageable. Hope you enjoy the Prezi and find it useful! Tatiana, Lucia & Paula

Presentation "Long Live the Bard"

In my presentation I wanted to prove that Shakespeare has enduring appeal and that his influence goes beyond literature. Therefore, I looked for some pictures and videos that show William and his extraordinary work are part of our ordinary life.

In this post you can see the poster I've used to present my talk. I will include the link to Glogster and, since my Edu Glogster is about to expire; I will include the links for the websites I mentioned: 

Glogster: http://clarisaf.edu.glogster.com/long-live-the-bard

Adds: http://transmedialshakespeare.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/shakespeare-in-advertising-2/

Songs: http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/04/10-great-shakespeare-inspired-songs.html

Video: http://youtu.be/0mlulJ7hrHY

Hope you enjoy it!

4 Shakespeare plays on screen (by Andrea Sánchez and Ma.Laura Straface)

The rationale behind our digital poster is to prove that Shakespeare is still contemporary. He is alive in popular culture even nowadays. So as to show this idea, we’ve decided to work with different films.

We’ve chosen 4 plays and we’ve concentrated on different movie scenes related to each play. We’ve also added some modern movie scenes that have been inspired by Shakespeare. Overall, it seems to us that Shakespeare’s themes will never be outdated that’s why we can still find so many modern movies that include  Shakespeare’s themes, plots, dialogues, etc. 

It’s also worth mentioning that in the case of Hamlet, we have chosen different relevant scenes from each film version and we’ve joined them together into one single video in order to show a clear comparison among them. 

http://www.glogster.com/andysanders/4-shakespeare-s-plays-on-screen/g-6k102k4hm006u0t89l2s7is

If you want to watch the videos just click on the link below the image. Once there, scroll to the bottom of the poster and change to HTML5 view (videos load faster in this way)

The Sun celebrates

From The Guardian

The Sun has published one of its best educational spreads today to mark the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare's birthday: "Happy Bard Day".
It was written by the paper's managing editor (and former Press Complaints Commission director), Stig Abell, who recently spent his tube journeys to work each day reading every one of Shakespeare's plays.
His knowledge has paid off. The pages contain summaries of all 37 plays plus some amusing spoof front pages created by John Perry, the man responsible for the paper's take on history, Hold Ye Front Page (see here and here).
Arguably the best of them is the one about Hamlet: "Massacre at the palace: Claudius killed, Queen poisoned. Hamlet and Laertes dead too." The pay-off is a gem: "Alas poor Yorick - skull found."
Missing from the spread, however, is that famous opening line to a verse in Cymbeline: "Fear no more the heat o' the Sun".
It would have been an apt comment on the paper's less hard-edged approach to the world of late.

Follow Mariel Amez's board The Sun Celebrates on Pinterest.

The Royal Shakespeare Company celebrated with fireworks

#Cakespeare

Other ways of celebrating Shakespeare's Birthday!

The V&A wants to celebrate the big day with a fabulous birthday cake. We would like you to design, make and decorate a cake inspired by the Bard. We need to you to muster all of your culinary and design skills to come up with a fairy cake fit for Titania, or a sinfully decadent cream cake that would make Falstaff swoon. Upload your entries to Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #Cakespeare. The winner will be announced on 7 May.

Watch out for the results!

Follow Victoria and Albert Museum's board #Cakespeare on Pinterest.

Hamlet on screen

There are probably countless film versions of Hamlet, ranging from the one starring Sir Laurence Olivier (1948)





to the one with Kenneth Brannagh (1996) 






 Next Saturday 26th Film and Arts is airing a version featuring Ethan Hawke (2000)

 

 It has met with highly mixed  reviews

 It can be a good idea to compare these five different renderings of the (perhaps) most famous soliloquy in drama. There are some questions to help you in the video itself. You can also compare the video from Hamlet la Metamorfosis available in the previous post