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14 years ago @ http://speareshaking.b... - Peer Evaluating Whitne... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks for your insight, Lindsay. I definitely need some more primary text in my posts and I should look into getting more sources. I appreciate your constructive criticism as well as your observations of what works well. Very helpful. (:
-Whit

14 years ago @ http://seeshakespeare.... - Pre-Hub Hub · 0 replies · +2 points

Looks like you've got this all figured out, Sara. I have no doubt that you'll tie your blog together well by the end of this semester with much thought out work and analyses.

My one suggestion would be to weave Shakespeare better through your thesis. The idea that Elizabethan familial values are the same as today kind of threw me off because I was on the track of Shakespeare paralleling his life in his plays. So instead of saying Elizabethan values have continued through today, I'd emphasize the timelessness of Shakespeare (which you already do in your posts, so just recognize that in a clear thesis) and use that to note how his family life and the way he applies it in his literature can transcend time and apply to familial situations today. It's not a big change, but I think it'll connect your thesis together more clearly and with a more centered topic.

Sounds like you've got everything down though, Sara. You're certainly an example for a lot of people on how to format a good blog. (: I'll be posting my peer review shortly.

-Whit

14 years ago @ http://seeshakespeare.... - Love, Lust and Compani... · 0 replies · +3 points

This is a great post, Sara! It utilizes the text and theories and your own analysis and weaves everything together well. You already do this, but it'd be interesting to tie some more of this into Shakespeare's personal life since we get such a rich back story of it in your previous posts. Just a thought. I like what you're doing with this topic, though.

14 years ago @ http://seeshakespeare.... - The Duty of a Poet · 0 replies · +2 points

This really is fascinating! I love making connections from what he did in his life to catalysts that could have caused him to do those things (like obtaining a new coat of arms for his father being linked to his son's death). I'd take care to identify whose ideas you're using when you make different analogies in the middle of your text. Sometimes I wonder if you're asserting your own ideas or if you're still talking about Wood.

14 years ago @ http://seeshakespeare.... - Rise to Fame · 0 replies · 0 points

Interesting. I like that you put your own questions at the bottom. I think it's your blog, you may as well answer your own questions. It's early in the posting sessions, but I think I'd like to see what *you* think of these facts you're giving to us.

14 years ago @ http://seeshakespeare.... - Not Your Average 19 ye... · 0 replies · +2 points

This is super interesting! I wonder why dealing wool was illegal. Also, Shakespeare must've been quite the ladies' man to have wooed a 27 year-old woman and tricked her into thinking he was mature enough to start a family with. Maybe he was, but that's a darn fast way to grow up!

14 years ago @ http://callshakespeare... - Skypeing III READ ALL ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm in I'm in. (:

14 years ago @ http://callshakespeare... - Skypeing · 0 replies · +1 points

I meant sorry because I've been away from my computer all day. Not that I have a skype name. I'm not sorry about that. (:

14 years ago @ http://callshakespeare... - Skypeing · 1 reply · +2 points

Sorry! My skype name's call.whitney

14 years ago @ http://speareme.blogsp... - The Physicality of Jes... · 0 replies · +2 points

I've thought about that as well. I'm sure there are jesters in other types of films, and I'll probably look more into that as I go on, but even with Shakespeare, his archetypal Jester shows up mainly in his romance/comedy plays. Sure, there is Pistol in Henry V, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (although that might be a stretch), and possibly Polonius in Hamlet. But these are more characters who possess the traits of a fool, and not necessarily an outright fool themselves. Still, hopefully I'll delve into this more later and figure it out a little better. (:

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