First Literature Blog Post

Welcome to the first Literature blog post! I'm really excited and happy that you are checking out the literature blog. Firstly I hope that we'll all start afresh and not look at literature or remember literature of our past experiences. That is I do not want us to remember the droning of our teacher's voice at the back our head with our minds a wandering when the teacher is going through Julius Caesar. . .

Starting afresh means allowing ourselves a chance to learn and look at things from a new vantage point and one of the class project that you guys will be involved in would be just how similar or different the audiences of Shakespeare's time and the modern audience are. Please pay particular attention to the performances venue of then then and now and what is the social class of the audiences.

Task for Student: One group of students will take charge of researching on the difference between audiences of the past and the present. The focus should be on the audiences who attended Shakespearean plays and nothing else. There is so much one can talk about the audience and in order for easier research purposes I want the students doing this particular research to

Firstly: Pay attention to the various classes of audiences, discuss which social class make up the bulk of the theater-goers and why?
Please keep in mind that I hope to see a compare and contrast between audiences of the past (Shakespearean) and present.

Secondly: What is different about the venues that the plays were staged in, in relation to the theaters of old and the modern.

Write a short review of what have you learned from your research and why do you think this would be relevant to a budding stage director. Please keep it short and succinct, with a maximum of only 3 paragraphs.