{"id":287,"date":"2019-04-15T18:23:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T17:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/?page_id=287"},"modified":"2019-09-10T17:23:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:23:38","slug":"weekly-exercises","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/weekly-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"

15%<\/strong> of the mid-term assessment is going to be awarded for a 750-word (+\/- 10%) piece of reflective writing <\/strong>about what you\u2019ve learned and about your contribution to the module so far. To evidence this, you can use discussions we\u2019ve had in seminars or consider your personal further reading, but probably the easiest ways to demonstrate your contribution is to refer to your participation in the blog because you can link to the relevant posts in your reflective assessment.<\/p>\n

Below is a list of weekly exercises I’d like each study group to do.\u00a0For weeks 1-5<\/strong> your study-groups should meet up after that week\u2019s seminar in order to plan your blog post, which should then be written and published before the following lecture (i.e. by Tuesday evening). In weeks 8-11, <\/strong>while some groups will be giving short presentations during seminars, other groups are expected to write something for the blog, this time to be published\u00a0before the seminar (i.e. by Wednesday evening).<\/p>\n

In our first seminar, I’ll show you how you can use Google Docs or the Office Word app to write collaboratively.<\/p>\n

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Week one’s task:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photo by Ellie Kurtz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the seminar this week, we looked at historical documents about the theatre industry like Henslowe\u2019s diary and traveller\u2019s accounts of English plays. What can these documents tell us about the experience of (a) performing, and (b) being in the audience of an early modern play? What strikes you as the most unusual aspect of the Elizabethan theatre? If you wish, you can answer some of these questions by writing a creative response, e.g. a \u2018time-traveller\u2019 guide to the theatre. Remember to back up your points with reference to the reading you\u2019ve done this week.<\/p>\n

publication deadline: 8th October<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Week two’s task:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Part of Shakespeare’s network, from ‘Six Degrees of Francis Bacon’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last week we read Stern\u2019s chapter on how actors had an influence on the plays Shakespeare wrote. For this week, please write a blog post which discusses how our perception of Shakespeare\u2019s reputation is altered by using Clare\u2019s intertextual <\/strong>approach of comparing his work with that of his contemporaries?<\/p>\n

Things you might want to consider (NB: you don\u2019t have to answer all of these): Who are Shakespeare\u2019s main competitors\/collaborators? Are there crazes for specific genres of plays in this period? What are some shared themes? Does the performance space matter? Do other writers tend to specialise in one genre, or do they seem to be generalists like Shakespeare?<\/p>\n

You can refer to the chapter we read for the seminar, or any of Clare\u2019s other chapters: you have access to the full digitised book via the library (link on reading list<\/strong>), so feel free to explore a different genre (e.g. chapter 6 on revenge tragedy & Hamlet<\/em>).<\/p>\n

publication deadline: 15th October<\/strong><\/p>\n

Week three’s task:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Censored page from ‘Jenny’s Whim’ (1794) Huntington Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In your groups, write a creative dialogue between an imaginary early modern defender of the theatre (What\u2019s their background and motivation?) and an imaginary early modern attacker of the theatre (What\u2019s their background and motivation?) You can draw on you reading of Barish and Pollard\u2019s introduction to contextualise this scene. Remember to use or paraphrase quotations from this week\u2019s reading to evidence your argument. If you manage to work in a discussion of Richard II<\/em>, all the better!<\/p>\n

publication deadline: 22nd October<\/strong><\/p>\n

Week four’s task:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This week we went to see early printed books up close in the library\u2019s special collections. Using the secondary reading and video for this week, plus the worksheet and any photographs taken on this visit, please write a post about the production <\/strong>of early printed books. Remember to provide a \u2018close reading\u2019 of at least one of the paratexts <\/strong>you have encountered. If you don\u2019t have a photograph from your visit, you can find transcriptions and microfilm images of these and other early books using the \u2018Early English Books Online\u2019 database (EEBO) , which you’ll need to access via the library search.<\/p>\n

publication deadline: 29th October<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Week five’s task:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Provenance Online Project, Folger Library copy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a group, first read through the Folger Library\u2019s \u2018DIY first folio\u2019 page: https:\/\/www.folger.edu\/publishing-shakespeare\/first-folio\/diy-first-folio<\/a> before working through the exercises in their \u2018virtual printing house\u2019: https:\/\/www.folger.edu\/publishing-shakespeare\/first-folio\/diy-first-folio\/exercise1a<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, check through the pages of the Folger\u2019s copy of the first folio and practice reading early modern script in their \u2018First Folio Reader\u2019: \u00a0https:\/\/www.folger.edu\/the-shakespeare-first-folio-folger-copy-no-68#page\/To+the+Reader\/mode\/2up<\/a><\/p>\n

For your blog post, write a \u2018reflective assessment\u2019<\/strong> of what your group have learned over the last two weeks about early modern printing and the printing of the first folio specifically. This is practice for your 750 word piece of reflective writing for the mid-term assessment. <\/strong>Reflective writing usually follows a three step structure: 1: description<\/u> of what happened or what your new idea is (keep this part short) 2: interpretation<\/u> of the event or idea: what is most important, interesting, useful, or relevant? How can it be explained? How is it similar or different from other events or ideas?\u00a0 3: the outcome<\/u>: what have you learned from this? What does it mean for your future learning (this can be short-term: e.g. goal for the end of the module, or long term, e.g. an approach you could apply to other modules).<\/p>\n

publication deadline: 5th November<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Week six: no blog post, due to assessment early in week 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Week seven: no blog post:\u00a0<\/strong>groups prepare a short presentation for\u00a0 week eight seminar. Info in handbook<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Week eight: i<\/strong>f your study group isn\u2019t presenting this week…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Roanoke island, de Bry after John White-1590<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pick out a quotation from one of the assigned texts or excerpts for week nine and write a \u2018close reading\u2019 for the blog. Analysis of the quotation should draw on some of the other texts we\u2019ve looked at this week (the other play, historical sources, secondary sources). Ideally, you\u2019d be looking for quotations which suggest a shared theme, or even a contradiction with these other texts.<\/p>\n

publication deadline: 26th November\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Week nine: i<\/strong>f your study group isn\u2019t presenting this week…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pick out a quotation from one of the assigned texts or excerpts for week ten and write a \u2018close reading\u2019 for the blog. Analysis of the quotation should draw on some of the other texts we\u2019ve looked at this week (the other play, historical sources, secondary sources). Ideally, you\u2019d be looking for quotations which suggest a shared theme, or even a contradiction with these other texts.<\/p>\n

publication deadline: 3rd December<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Week ten: i<\/strong>f your study group isn\u2019t presenting this week…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Inigo Jones costume design, Masque of Blackness- 1606<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pick out a quotation from one of the assigned texts or excerpts for week eleven and write a \u2018close reading\u2019 for the blog. Analysis of the quotation should draw on some of the other texts we\u2019ve looked at this week (the other play, historical sources, secondary sources). Ideally, you\u2019d be looking for quotations which suggest a shared theme, or even a contradiction with these other texts.<\/p>\n

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