All the World's a Stage: Modern English Romeo and Juliet

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Tuesday, 1 February 2011

No Fear Shakespeare

No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeare's language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English—the kind of English people actually speak today.

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General Information

Title of the Project: All the World's a Stage

Notions:
- Myths and Heroes
- Places and Spaces of Power

- Love as a universal theme

Fields: Literature / Art (Cinema) / Language

Issue: To what extent is Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet a timeless and universal story?

Purpose:
- To become knowledgeable about Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- To become aware of the evolution of the English language.
- To become knowledgeable about West Side Story, the film.
- To be able to use the analysis of Shakespeare's play to adapt a scene for another time period and write a script.
- To become knowledgeable about an important period in American or British history.
- To be able to present personal work to an audience.
- To be able to perform a theatrical reading of a script and respect the pronunciation, the word stress and the intonation of the lines.
- To be able to use Mp3 software to create a sophisticated audio document.