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Term 1 was all about Shakespeare. Check out the info! Check out this new page with clips that relate to each of the different Shakespeare scenes you are working on! Shakespeare Theme Inspiration Clips

We started with Drama 2.2 asking students to take on a performing role in a 15 minute Shakespeare scene.This scene was directed by the Year 13 students and will be performed as part of a Shakespeare evening which focuses on the theme of crime in Shakespeare entitiled **Crimes and Misdemeanours. This will also provide the scene to be used when you have an opportunity to compete in the [|Sheliah Wynn Shakespeare festival.]** As with any performance this will require real commitment from the whole class and you will need to make sure you support the whole team.This is a group task and you will need to be able to rely on one another. Make sure you do your bit and try to surround yourself with people with the right work ethic and not just your friends. Just to get you inspired here is a short clip showing how different Shakespeare can be and some info on the man himself! media type="youtube" key="SidQd7FDzu8&rel=1" height="355" width="425" The murder of Lady Macbeth =William Shakespeare=

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[|] "Shakespeare" redirects here. For other uses, see [|Shakespeare (disambiguation)]. The [|Chandos portrait], artist and authenticity unconfirmed. [|National Portrait Gallery, London]. || [|Stratford-upon-Avon], [|Warwickshire], [|England] || [|Stratford-upon-Avon], [|Warwickshire], [|England] || Shakespeare was born and raised in [|Stratford-upon-Avon]. At the age of 18 he married [|Anne Hathaway], who bore him three children: [|Susanna], and twins [|Hamnet] and [|Judith]. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in [|London] as an actor, writer, and part owner of the [|playing company] the [|Lord Chamberlain's Men], later known as the [|King's Men]. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his [|sexuality], [|religious beliefs], and whether the works attributed to him were [|written by others].[|[4]] Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly [|comedies] and [|histories], genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. Next he wrote mainly [|tragedies] until about 1608, producing plays, such as //[|Hamlet]//, //[|King Lear]//, and //[|Macbeth]//, considered some of the finest in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote [|tragicomedies] and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime, and in 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the [|First Folio], a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's. Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The [|Romantics], in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the [|Victorians] hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that [|George Bernard Shaw] called "[|bardolatry]".[|[5]] In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are consistently performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.
 * ~ William Shakespeare ||
 * = [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Shakespeare.jpg/200px-Shakespeare.jpg width="200" height="259" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Shakespeare.jpg"]]
 * ~ Born || April 1564 (exact date unknown)
 * ~ Died || [|23 April] [|1616]
 * ~ [|Occupation] || [|Playwright], [|poet], [|actor] ||
 * ~ Signature ||  ||
 * William Shakespeare** ([|baptised] [|26 April] [|1564] – [|23 April] [|1616])[|[a]] was an [|English] [|poet] and [|playwright], widely regarded as the greatest writer in the [|English language] and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.[|[1]][|[2]] He is often called England's [|national poet] and the "[|Bard] of [|Avon]" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 [|plays],[|[b]] 154 [|sonnets], two long [|narrative poems], and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.[|[3]]

Shakespeare Theme Inspiration Clips

Year 13 Drama we started straight in with either Unit Standard 16435 or 16431 which will give you an opportunity to take on either a significant directing or lighiting role in a 15 minute Shakespeare scene.This scene will be performed by the year 12 students as part of a Shakespeare evening which focuses on the theme of crime in Shakespeare entitiled **Crimes and Misdemeanours. This will also provide the scene to be used when you have an opportunity to compete in the [|Sheliah Wynn Shakespeare festival.]**

As with any performance this will require real commitment from the whole class and you will need to make sure you support the whole team.This is a group task and you will need to be able to rely on one another. Make sure you do your bit and try to surround yourself with people with the right work ethic and not just your friends. Just to get you inspired here is a short clip giving an amusing look at rehearsing Shakespeare and some info on the man himself! media type="youtube" key="sB69doEOO70&rel=1" height="355" width="425"