Lankan souljah's Weblog

Focusing on Written Communication

Ramesh Lakshman — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:18:34 +0000

Q1.) What type of writer are you now?

Now I am a very weak writer. I need to use better sentence structure and grammer to imporve myself.

Q2.) What sort of writer do you want to be?

I want to be a professional writer and make no mistakes when I write.

Q3.) How are you going to achieve them?

I am going to achieve it by reading newspaper and writing more.

What are the typical features that all Shakespeare plays must include?

Ramesh Lakshman — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:51:50 +0000

The typical features that all Shakespeare play must include are a hero, heroine and villain. Shakespeare’s stories also include romance in some way. Shakespeare’s stories include stage props and stage direction and Old English language. His stories also include lightings and a narrator.

Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare

http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/facts-about-william-shakespeare.htm

Relevance of Shakespeare to 21st century

Ramesh Lakshman — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:38:55 +0000

I believe that Shakespeare is irrelevant to the 21st century because what am I going to do by knowing about him. An example is that Harry Potter is a famous book but no is going to research on J.K Rowling as a project.

Shakespeare uses the old English accent in his play. Not even the British people in the 21st century would understand the old English accent. I think that Shakespeare shouldn’t be a syllabus at school but if anyone is interested to research about him then they can research about him themselves.

Tragedies, Comedies and Histories

Ramesh Lakshman — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:25:18 +0000

William Shakespeare wrote many plays with themes like tragedies, comedies and histories. Some of these plays are:

Tragedies: Cymbeline, Macbeth, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens, Coriolanus and Titus Andronicus.

Histories: Henry VIII, Henry VI Part 1-3, Henry V, Henry IV Part 1-2, King John, King Richard II and III. These stories were about real people who lived during the Elizabethan era.

Comedies: The comedy of errors, Loves labour lost, The tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado about Nothing and Measure for Measure.

Links

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/

http://nfs.sparknotes.com/

Your Groups play- An overview

Ramesh Lakshman — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:28:38 +0000

The play that our group did was the comedy of errors. In my group we had me, Jake C, Blake and Anthony H. Our play was about a family and have 2 sons who are twins and they adopt another set of twins. Then one day they decide to leave the country but as they were leaving there was a shipwreck. The father went in one direction with one of his son and adopted son and the mother went in the other direction with the other son and the other adopted son.

Twenty five years later they go to find their siblings and their parents so they can reunite. On there way, they go through many obstacles and comedy of errors like mix ups as they look alike. Do they reunite? Watch this play to find out.

The kings Chamberlain Men

Ramesh Lakshman — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:03:02 +0000

The Lord Chamberlain’s men was a playing company where William Shakespeare worked for. He was there as an actor and a playwright for most of his career. In 1603, it was one of the two leading groups in London.

This group was founded in 1594, during the time of when Queen Elizabeth the first was ruling in England. Shakespeare worked here for most of his career and it turned out to be very successful.

Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Chamberlain’s_Men

http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/shakespeare-chamberlains-men.htm

The Globe theatre

Ramesh Lakshman — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:52:12 +0000

The Globe theatre is William Shakespeare’s theatre which was located in London. It was built by Shakespeare’s playing company, the Lord Chamberlian’s Men, in 1599. On the 29^th June 1613, the Globe theatre was on fire and got burnt down. By an year, a second Globe theatre was built on the same land of the original one but it closed down in 1642.

A modern version of the Globe theatre was built in 1997 and it was called ‘Shakespeare’s Globe.’ It is about 230 metres away from the original Globe theatre.

Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe_Theatre

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4466781.ece

Elizabethan Society

Ramesh Lakshman — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:42:35 +0000

The Elizabethan society is the period of time when Queen Elizabeth the first was ruling England (1558- 1603). This was considered to be the golden age in the English history because it was the time of William Shakespeare’s stories and plays.

The Elizabethan society was known because of the contrasts with the periods before and after. It was the time of peace between the English Reformation and the battle between the Catholics and the Protestants and the battle between the monarchy and the parliament.

Links

http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/vail/library/elizabethan_society.htm

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-england.htm

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Ramesh Lakshman — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:46:19 +0000

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