So glad you enjoyed it. Learning Shakespeare is so important and doing it the way we did it is great because it brings us together as a team and makes great actors of everyone. Have a good weekend.
It’s wonderful to hear how much you are enjoying these Shakespeare plays. Here’s a speech from another of his plays (As You Like It). Can you say what the poem is about? The word sans in the last line means without.
I hope you enjoy reading it and puzzling on what it’s all about.
All the World’s a Stage
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
that was so fun
Yes indeed it was!
you didn’t like it as much as i did because that is impossible and no one can say no to what i just said beat that miss.
So glad you enjoyed it. Learning Shakespeare is so important and doing it the way we did it is great because it brings us together as a team and makes great actors of everyone. Have a good weekend.
It’s wonderful to hear how much you are enjoying these Shakespeare plays. Here’s a speech from another of his plays (As You Like It). Can you say what the poem is about? The word sans in the last line means without.
I hope you enjoy reading it and puzzling on what it’s all about.
All the World’s a Stage
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Oops, I need to learn how to start and stop italics!
Points for those who can respond!
I loved acting in the tempest!
You were very good in it.