Wellllll.... today we worked on Shakespeare, and I'll see if I can work through everything before I get either bored, tired, or yelled at by my parents that it's too late to be on the computer. :)
In a nutshell:
Will had a bad marriage, which shows, interestingly, in his plays, as well as, in a few of his plays, his attempt at reconnecting with his daughters. Also, he hated where he lived, (as did Ian, apparently) and went to London to strike it big as an actor. He couldn't be an actor, so he became a playwright, to make money.
Now, Will writes in Iambic Pentameter, like a heart beat, so when a syllable is skipped or added on it is supposed to give the effect of a heart skipping a beat, usually in a fairly dramatic line. On that note, if a line is made largely or completely of one syllable words, this line is important. It will usually be explaining something that may or may not have been perfectly clear to the audience, i.e. "She is dead". Continuing, Will would use thesis' and antithesis' to emphasize points, and these points are important. i.e. "I could have saved her, now she is gone." "I know when one is dead, and when one is live."
Also, the punctuation will lead you, like in the exercise where commas change your direction, semi-colons and colons change in a bigger way, periods make you stop and change, exclamations make you stop, jump, and drastically change, and questions make you spin. These seem to somehow fit the monologues we used, which was very helpful. Along those lines, if there is a list, each item builds on the other. i.e. "Howl, howl, howl, howl!" " Come, come, come, come!"
Hopefully I'm not forgetting something.
But after this, we worked on blocking, which was hilarious.
"Hotspur is now a chihuahua-- NO!"
And congrats to Ian's possibly-existent-but-now-more-determinedly-alive twin!
So, todays funny image should, logically, involve a baby! :)
(Alright, so it's a kitten... close enough.)
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