Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship | Research and Discussion of the Shakespeare Authorship Question. Shakespeare-Oxford Society. In Search of Shakespeare . Language Arts: Shakespeare's Sonnets. Introduction One of the difficulties teachers face when they teach Shakespeare is language accessibility. Twenty-first century students simply have difficulty understanding the words, and so they miss the meaning of his plays and sonnets.
This is no small loss. Thus, it is a teacher's responsibility to help students not only understand the language but also to empower them, so that when faced with difficult texts they feel as if they can, with a little effort, appreciate what Shakespeare is saying. However, the lesson can be easily tailored to a teacher's specific students. It's also easy to see, then, that the activities can be extended into a piece of literary analysis, or even the writing of a sonnet, that can be taken from outlines to first draft through revision and into a final draft. Learning objectives Estimated Time of Completion Two 45-minute class periods Materials Introductory Activity It's good to ask the students questions such as "Who likes Shakespeare?
" Procedure Sonnet #18 McRel. The Collected Works of Shakespeare. The correct URL to use for this page is as older URLs (those involving psrg, gh or cs) may be decommissioned at any time. Please update your bookmarks. Serving pages since 1993--the web's oldest Shakespeare site! (The comments on MIT's Shakespeare site notwithstanding, this site is the web's first edition of Shakespeare. The text is based on the same text as the MIT site but came online in October 1993, two months before the MIT site.
Interestingly this was pointed out in previous correspondence.) The above lists are presented in approximate chronological order of composition within each group. I picked these up some time ago from a server in England. The original electronic source for this server is the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare, which is freely available online. Please note that I am in no way an expert on Shakespeare or his works. Plain text versions of the plays are also available at the top of each play's page. Shakespeare.com.