Дистанційне
навчання 10-А (07.10.2020)
Lesson
Wednesday,
the seventh of October
Theme: Renaissance.
Shakespeare. Pages of biography and creativity.
1.
Follow the link and complete the tasks.
https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/william-shakespeare-biography-fcsm
2. Read information about William Shakespeare
Above all other dramatists stands
William Shakespeare, a supreme genius whom it is impossible to characterize
briefly. Shakespeare is unequaled as poet and intellect, but he remains
elusive. The sureness and profound popularity of his taste enabled him to lead
the English Renaissance without privileging or prejudicing any one of its
divergent aspects, while he—as actor, dramatist, and shareholder in the Lord
Chamberlain’s players—was involved in the Elizabethan theatre at every level.
His career (dated from 1589 to 1613) corresponded exactly to the period of
greatest literary flourishing, and only in his work are the total possibilities
of the Renaissance fully realized.
Shakespeare’s early plays were
principally histories and comedies.
The early comedies share the popular
and romantic forms used by the university wits but overlay them with elements
of elegant courtly revel and a sophisticated consciousness of comedy’s
fragility and artifice. These plays give greater weight to the less-optimistic
perspectives on society current in the 1590s, and their comic resolutions are
openly acknowledged to be only provisional, brought about by manipulation,
compromise, or the exclusion of
one or more major characters.
The confusions and contradictions of
Shakespeare’s age find their highest expression in his tragedies. In these
extraordinary achievements, all values, hierarchies, and forms are tested and
found wanting, and all society’s latent conflicts are activated. Shakespeare
sets husband against wife, father against child, the individual against
society; he uncrowns kings, levels the nobleman with the beggar, and interrogates the gods.
Shakespeare’s later works
In his last period Shakespeare’s
astonishingly fertile invention returned to experimentation. In these plays
Shakespeare’s imagination returns to the popular romances of his youth and
dwells on mythical themes—wanderings, shipwrecks, the reunion of sundered
families, and the resurrection of people long thought dead. There is consolation
here, of a sort, beautiful and poetic, but still the romances do not turn aside
from the actuality of suffering, chance, loss, and unkindness, and
Shakespeare’s subsidiary theme is a sustained examination of the nature of his
own art, which alone makes these consolations possible. Even in this unearthly
context a subtle interchange is maintained between the artist’s delight in his
illusion and his mature awareness of his own disillusionment.
3. Follow the
link and complete the tasks (папка Дистанційне навчання 10-А)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CwlGfiEnFiOu30qsjRAxt5VanyrH7lKU?usp=sharing
4. Do the test
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CwlGfiEnFiOu30qsjRAxt5VanyrH7lKU?usp=sharing
Hometask:
Do the test (папка
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