Friday, March 14, 2014

Brit Lit:

Today:

We took a quiz on act II

We looked at the first 1/2 of the excellent PBS documentary from last year on Ethan Hawke and his journey preparing to play the part of Macbeth.

This can be viewed here:
http://video.pbs.org/program/shakespeare-uncovered/

For Nick, here is the Patrick Stewart version.  Not my fav, but some neat interpretations of the witches.  This can be watched free here:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/macbeth/watch-the-full-program/1030/

We looked at the climax of the play- the start of act 3, where Macbeth is King.  It gets dark after this....

I assigned the Macbeth lines.  Please learn these for next Friday:

Macbeth:
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

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