Friday, March 15, 2013

honestly relieved I don't have to do full citations

Working thesis: In his play, The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare utilizes the duality of time as being simultaneously constraining and liberating.



Social Graph:
Aubree Lyman: An actress in the upcoming production of BYU’s The Winter’s Tale playing Paulina. She was able to give an actor’s perspective on time and music within the play.
Sophie Determan: Another actress in the upcoming production of The Winter’s Tale, she is a narrator.
Amelia (forgot to get her last name at the time though I’ll get it when I go to see the production): Acting as both director and dramaturg for the production of The Winter’s Tale she talked to me about her director’s concept and how she was able to utilize time as a theme within the work.
Dan: He works on the fifth floor of the library and is a Renaissance literature major. He has an extensive Shakespeare background and has essentially been my sounding board through this whole adventure. He helped me develop my thesis and I’ll probably take my drafts to him once they’re ready.
Adam Hansen: A senior literature lecturer at Northumbria University in England. He wrote a book exploring the relationship between Shakespeare and popular music, so e-mailed him with some questions about Shakespeare’s music in relation to the concept of time.
My sister: She's a classic's major here at BYU and has also been acting as a sounding board for me through this process.

New media:
A literary articles blog that had a whole section on Shakespeare’s sonnets and multiple entries about the treatment of time within his sonnets.
I’ve been looking at a few websites just to learn more about theater in shakespeare’s time and various literary devices he used to develop timing/rhythm in his works.
Playing Shakespeare: Essentially a miniseries with information about Shakespeare. I was unable to find it in the library, but I could find segments of it online on youtube. They’ve got a whole section on time!

Social Networks:
Rock’s back pages writer’s blog:This is the blog where I originally found the reference to the book Shakespeare and Popular Music.
Academia.edu: I joined this network and today I went through and was able to find multiple articles that looked pertinent to me – one about time and voluntary action, and another about the tradition of sonnets that discusses time some.

Traditional Scholarly resources:
“Hitchkick to Highgate”: An article written by Gerald Freedman in the American Theater magazine exploring the relationship between Shakespeare’s and musicals. Freedman was an actor in New York’s annual Shakespeare in the park – Honestly the article was more helpful when I was looking into thesis incorporating musicals rather than time though…
“Audiences and Authors: Ballads and the Making of English Renaissance Literary Culture”: An article by Sharon Achinstein I found in the periodicals section at the library relating to the ballads within The Winter’s Tale.
Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare: A book I was able to find on ebooks by Angus Fletcher. He has a chapter in it called “Marlowe Invents the Deadline” which made me think somewhat about time in the sense of the timing Shakespeare had to write plays/actors had to learn them – he discusses how the timing parameters were both a restriction and liberation.
Shakespeare and Popular Music: The book by Adam Hansen I mentioned above. On its own it wasn’t entirely beneficial to my research, but after reading some and then e-mailing the author, the book became a vital groundwork to my research.

Well... it's definitely still a work in progress but at least I am making progress!



1 comment:

  1. Wait, are you talking about Dan Guillian? He's in my Classics and the English Tradition class, and he was my peer mentor in my freshman year. Small world, the English major.

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