Going back through Digital dialogue posts, I found that I was drawn to ideas concerning the historical context and the social customs and conventions of Shakespeare's day. I hadn't really thought much about historical context in ideas, but this makes me want to do more research on the interests that I have right now.
I also really enjoyed the discussion we had in class on Friday, and I'm excited at the personal applications that I've been finding and how they can translate into paper ideas. In Much Ado About Nothing, deception is a key theme that I talked a lot about with Amelia in class, and I definitely want to pursue it. I also had to watch a PBS video for my British Lit class, which discussed the deception and and cross-dressing in As You Like It. I would really like to compare the differences in deception in these two plays. As well as perhaps, look at the faked deaths in Much Ado and The Winter's Tale. These are some of the ideas that are coming to me right now. But I think that I need to do more research into the historical context, for instance about gender roles and cross-dressing, in order to really find something I'm invested in.
I think the deception idea is interesting, but you'd probably have to have a really interesting spin on it. Something that people wouldn't ordinarily think of.
ReplyDeleteThe faked death idea in A Winter's Tale is cool because the people in the play don't seem to think it was fake even when they see Hermione. It just seems to be part of a romance that she could come back to life, so even at the end of the play, they're convinced her death wasn't faked. I agree with Kaylee: the deception idea in general is an interesting starting point.
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