Themes and motifs are an important aspect of all texts. Shakespeare in particular often explored such themes such as: love, love’s difficulties, dreams, hate, relationships, war, the supernatural, marriage, gender, reality Vs appearance.
You are to choose two of these themes and using your knowledge of the text write a one paragraph analysis on each.
Your analysis should include quotes and techniques which are used to enhance this theme.
Using the provided URL address you are to research the Globe Theatre. Your research must include:
All information can be found at http://www.globe-theatre.org.uk/ If you find information elsewhere you can incorporate this into your resreach task as well.
You are to complete your research task in your exercise book under the heading ‘The Globe Theatre research task’ and you are to submit a summary of your research (no less than 15 lines) in this blog.
From your study of the Globe Theatre and the visual provided you are to write the function of the theatre, what type of people attended the theatre and where they would sit (minimum of 10 lines)
From observing these three images taken from the play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ What do you think it might be about?
