The Sonnets You can buy the Arden text of these sonnets from the Amazon.com online bookstore: Shakespeare's Sonnets (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series) I. FROM fairest creatures we desire increase,II. When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,III. Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewestIV. Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spendV. The Nardvark: IB English If you get the joyous privilege of studying a poem with rhythm and metre, you need to understand what rhythm and metre mean. No matter how many times Nardvark’s teacher explains it, no matter how many diagrams and Powerpoints she uses and how many times she claps her hands, Nardvark just doesn’t get it. And that’s NOT because he is sitting in the back of the classroom reading his friends’ tweets from math class, honest! Rhythm: George and Ira Gershwin had rhythm. Eg: Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow. In the well-known nursery rhyme, the syllables that your voice stresses when you say them are bold. Eg: I've got the moves like Jagger. In the well-known song lyric above, every second syllable is stressed. OH! So where does the “Pentameter” part come in? Ok, we’re getting to that. There are other rhythms besides iambic. Meters with two-syllable feet are: IAMBIC (da-DUM, or x /) eg: I've got the moves like Jagger. Meters with three-syllable feet are One foot = monometer
About the author | Springboard Shakespeare Ben Crystal Ben is an actor and writer. He studied English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University before training at Drama Studio London. He has worked in TV, film and theatre, including at the reconstructed Shakespeare’s Globe, London, and has narrated for RNIB Talking Books, Channel 4 and the BBC. He co-wrote Shakespeare’s Words (Penguin 2002) and The Shakespeare Miscellany (Penguin 2005) with David Crystal, and his first solo book, Shakespeare on Toast – Getting a Taste for the Bard was published in 2008 (Icon). He regularly gives workshops on performing and speaking Shakespeare via Passion in Practice.
Shakespeare Insults: Top 50 Shakespearean Insults & Put Downs So you think you know a foul word or two? Shakespeare’s insults, put downs and cussing were second to none, and with his insults Shakespeare was most certainly a master of his trade! Read our selection of the top 50 Shakespeare insults below, ordered alphabetically by quote, with play and act/scene listed too. From ” a most notable coward” to “Villian, I have done thy mother” Shakespeare had an insult for any occassion. Top 50 Shakespeare Insults: Shakespeare insult 1: All’s Well That Ends Well (Act 3, Scene 6) “A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.” Shakespeare insult 2: Henry IV Part I (Act 2, Scene 4) “Away, you starvelling, you elf-skin, you dried neat’s-tongue, bull’s-pizzle, you stock-fish!” Shakespeare insult 3: The Taming of the Shrew (Act 3, Scene 3) “Away, you three-inch fool! Shakespeare insult 4: The Taming Of The Shrew (Act 5, Scene 2) “Come, come, you froward and unable worms!” “My wife’s a hobby horse!”
Shakespeare's Sonnets Open Source Shakespeare: search Shakespeare's works, read the texts World Lit Assignments: Advice « IB English A1 by Mr. MacKnight (80) on January 24th, 2008 As an assistant examiner for the IB, I mark World Lit essays every year. Here is an excerpted version of the examiner’s report that I submitted last year after finishing my marking. It highlights some of the common problems so that you can avoid them! 1. Not surprisingly under such circumstances, most students simply retail ideas that their teachers or other sources have fed them. The assignment(s) I am submitting is (are) my own work. Failing to acknowledge use of their teachers’ ideas with a simple ‘as discussed in class’ casts suspicion on the provenance of every other observation they make. Literature as ‘The Search for Hidden Meanings’ and students’ retailing of potted interpretations go together, of course. 3. Other miscellaneous comments: Assignment 2: be sure to label 2a, 2b, or 2c, depending on your choice. Label essays ‘Assignment 1′ and ‘Assignment 2′. Page citations should be unobtrusive. 36 people like this post.
Here’s How 600 People Around the World Say the Word ‘Potato’ You might think you don’t have an accent, but you do. And should you need help coping with this truth, you can consult a growing crowd-sourced map of people uttering one English word from all over the world: potato. Thanks to the authors of a new book on accents called You Say Potato, you can listen to Christopher from Alabaster, Ala., say “puh-tay-tuh” (and admit that he sometimes says “tater” instead). You can hear actor Stephen Fry lyrically explain from Norfolk, England how he utters “poh-TAY-toh.” Then you can amble over to India and listen to Nitin pronounce “pah-TAT-oh” from Bangalore. The book was written by a father-son team, linguist David Crystal and actor Ben Crystal, who is known for performing Shakespeare in the “original pronunciation.” The treatise also comes with a social-justice message: accents are everywhere, and no one anywhere should be judging people based on how they say potato. “Our accent is the most important index of identity that we’ve got.