Friday 1 March 2013

Selection of Monologues: Shakespearean and Contemporary Canadian

This week you have been tasked with selecting two monologues:  one Shakespearean and one from a contemporary Canadian play.

Your first challenge is to 'rewrite' the Shakespearean monologue into the language you yourself would use in the same situation/context.  Consider who you are, where you are, to whom you are speaking and your purpose in speaking.

Make sure you can answer the questions on the handout you were given.

There are some youtube sites that have recordings of Shakespearean monologues.  These are likely done by good readers who are pronouncing the words correctly and clearly for the recordings that teachers used to use as students read along.  They are not necessarily well-acted!  I encourage you to seek these and/or other sites out as you research your character.