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class 4-10-13
Agenda QuizPlot/Sentence Questions Performance 1 Discussion of Comedy in Merry Wives Discussion of Serious Comedy in Merry Wives Quiz What frightens Falstaff while he is at Mrs. Ford’s house? In what humiliating place does Falstaff hide? After he hides there, what further unpleasant and humiliating thing happens to him? What humiliates Mr. Ford in this…
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Mr. Ford V. Mr. Page
I think as being a husband Mr. ford should trust his wife because she is his life partner. As compare to Mr. Page, Mr. Ford is a bad husband. why would Mr. Ford wants to find out about mistress Ford’s reply ? On the other hand Mr. Page is a wonderful husband. Mr Page did…
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Mrs. Ford’s wrongful move
If I were Mrs. Ford I would have never planned that revenge against Falstaff. Instead to make herself look trustworthy in front of her husband, she should have handed the letter to him. The revenge that Mrs. Page and Mrs. Ford have planned should be carried by Page because her marriage is more successful and…
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Trustworthy or Deceptive?
After receiving the letters from Falstaff, Mistress Page and Mistress Ford plan their revenge. They decide to play along and lead Falstaff on. However, as we have seen previously, Ford is quite distrusting of his wife, while Page is the contrary. So, how trustworthy is Mistress Ford actually being to her husband? Although she doesn’t…
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class 4-8-13
Agenda Quiz Plot/sentence questions Globe Merry Wives of Windsor My scene Your scenes Discussion of act 2 Quiz From whom does Mistress Page receive a letter? In relation to the letter Mistress Ford receives, what’s funny about that letter? After receiving their letters, what do Mistresses Ford and Brook decide to do in response to…
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The Difference Between Two Marriages
Through the first two acts of Merry Wives of Windsor, it is obvious that Shakespeare is comparing two, differing marriages. Ford is extremely distrusting of his wife, Mistress Ford, and assumes the worst when he hears of Falstaff’s deception to seduce her. He disguises himself in hopes of gaining further information of what’s truly happening “behind…
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class 4-3-13
Agenda Quiz Plot/Word questions Comedy (Genre) and Carnival Reading and Performing Merry Wives Quiz Other than Falstaff, name a character in Merry Wives of Windsor whom we’ve met before in Henry V. When the play begins, what or who are Shallow and Slender angry at? How does Anne Page figure in the plot? Falstaff…
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class 4-1-13
Agenda Quiz Plot/Word Questions Desire and Patriarchy in Synetic Tempest and play text Discussion of Act 5 Thinking about Performance Quiz 9 When Prospero has his brother, Alonso and Alonso’s brother in his control, what does he do to them? What happens to Ariel? What game are Miranda and Ferdinand playing when Prospero unveils them?…
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Prospero…the all controlling!
When first reading this play you think that Prospero is all out for revenge. He controls all the characters around him and seems very selfish. The last act though, I almost had a second thought about his motives. It almost seemed like he just let go all of his power. He even says he will…
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Who’s the True Villain?
In the Tempest, I found very difficult to find a absolute antagonist in both the written and performed versions. In Titus and Henry V, the villains or antagonist were clear, Tamora in Titus and in one way or another The French in Henry V but who is the real villain in Tempest? Is it Calliban…