Our goal this week in 10HUMws was to learn more about Shakespeare’s play structure, make connections with our novel, A Cue For Treason, and have an introduction to the plot lines in, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The past couple of days we have been reading the ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by Shakespeare,
I have been speaking the parts of Theseus. We read the entirety of the first Act. e read through the parts about Egeus complaining that Hermia wouldn’t marry Demetrius, and I, as Theseus, told Hermia that you either marry Demetrius, become a virgin nun or die.
While reading through the Act 1 we picked up on certain sentences the sounded weird but meant many different thing, eg. when Theseus said to Hippolyta:
“Hippolyta, I wooed thee with my sword, And won thy love doing thee injuries; But I will wed thee in another key, With pomp, with triumph, and with revelling”
Which means, He won her after she had been taken in battle and when he said:
“But I will wed thee in another key”
He meant he will hopefully give her a better life.
I learnt that Shakespearean language is hard to understand but has a deeper meaning to all his sentences, I enjoyed reading along but I didn’t enjoy getting cut off by the teacher when she explained things.
I wasn’t that nervous as I have done plays in the past.
My goal looking forward is just to finish the play.
