Mel Gibson's "Hamlet" and Shakespeare's language

Shakespeare's Language

You have been working on an essay about this. I will give a short presentation about aspects of this that you should know about and try to apply in your writing, specially in the Explorative Study for your coursework later.

Mel Gibson's "Hamlet"

We will be watching parts of this and taking notes on similarities and differences between Gibson and Brannagh's interpretations of the play.

Your Creative Critical response will require you to think about the reception of the play in context.

Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus"

You will need to buy this text so that we can begin exploring some key scenes from this second text. You will need to read the complete text so that you can refer to it in your coursework. We have elected to go for the Longman edition.

A picture of the edition and an amazon link is given here.

Homework:

1.Write a summary of similarities and differences between you impressions of the Brannagh and Gibson "Hamlet"s. Try to refer to the script if possible.

2.Read one of the articles on Shakespeare's Catholicism listed on the sidebar to the left. We will divide them up in class. Make some notes to present some of the main ideas for class discussion.

3.Get "Doctor Faustus".