Writing a Letter of Response As William Shakespeare

Ye Letter to The editor

Dear Mr. Cavendish,

How doest a fool like thee question a worketh of I, William Shakespeare. Of course an clotpole like thee wouldn't beest cunning enough to see that the playeth of "Pyramus and Thisbe" within the playeth "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" serveth multiple purposes. One being much needed comedic relief, also these playeth has't very similar love stories. Both playeth wend ov'r the very important theme of reality and illusion. I see tis mandatory to pray pardon me because thee art a fool.

 At a point of such intensity in the playeth, comedic relief wast required, and mine playeth within a playeth satisfied that perfectly, but of course thee wouldn't understandeth. Eke both playeth share similar stories, Thisbe’s father bannedto the love between Thisbe and Pyramus. Identically in act one scene one, Hermia’s father eke banned the love between that lady and Lysander. Thisbe and Hermia, both defied their fathers commands and hath chosen love. Clearly thee didst not notice any resemblance. Another reason for this playeth within a playeth wast to furthermore wend into the those folk of "reality and Illsuion". The illusion wast that for both pairs of lovers their would beest a joyous ending. Only Hermia and Lysander would has't a happy ending. Unlike the halt of love between Pyramus and Thisbe.

A mind of imagination and inventiveness is required to understandeth mine worketh, and clearly thee lacks in both areas. Clearly thee doth not either appreciate, respect, or understandeth the art of theater.  

Sincerely,

William Shakespeare

"A Midsummer Nights Dream" Act 3 Scene 2 Images of Sight

Image Cluster Chosen:  Images of sight

Lines in 3.2.
1
Oberon: “And Helena of Athens look thou find: [95]
All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer,
With sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear:
By some illusion see thou bring her here:
I'll charm his eyes against she do appear”.
Helena of Athens, joyful and beautiful.
Sight

This shows the audience how Oberon feels about Helena.

2
Helena: “Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;
Two of the first, like coats in heraldry”.
Two berries together on a stem. Although they look separated the berries are connected through the stem.
Sight/touch 

This shows the the audience the level of obsession Helena has over Demetrius.

3
Lysander: “Fair Helena, who more engilds the night”
Image of Helena shining brighter than stars in the night.
Sight

This shows the audience the love that Lysander had for Helena.

4
Robin: “While she was in her dull and sleeping hour”.
Image of Titania sleeping in her bed.
Sight

Shows the audience Titiana resting calmly in her sleep.

5
Demetrius “I had rather give his carcass to my hounds.”
Image of hounds eating human remains. 

Sight

This can expose the audience to Demetrius’ cruelty. This shows the evil in him.

6
Lysander “I follow’d fast, but faster he did fly; /That fallen am I in dark uneven way/ And here will rest me.” Image of the chaos beginning when Puck leads the young Athenians into the darkness.
Sight

As Lysander collapses, audience will feel confused and hopeless.

7
Puck: “Here she comes, curst and sad:
Cupid is a knavish lad”
Image of Hermia returning upset.
Sight 

Audience is preparing to hear what the sad Hermia had to do or say.

8
Robin “As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,

Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,
Rising and cawing at the gun’s report.”
His friends ran away like ducks from a gunshot. 

sight

Shows how scared the characters were, and that they ran away very fast.

9
Demetrius “Oh, how ripe in show
Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!”
The lips are as ripe as too cherries kissing.
sight/taste/touch


By saying that the lips are sweet the audience understands that they want to kiss each other. This shows emotions between characters.

Critique Of A Performance "A Midsummer Nights Dream" Act 1 Scene 2

Critique Of A Performance

Right away when watching this play I saw how much these actors used their body
language to show their intentions and feelings on subjects. For example Bottom
was behaving very rude and obnoxiously just as I said he should, but I did not
expect for him to be behaving like that so early into the play. I also noticed very
quickly that many of these lines were intended for comedy, but I earlier did not realize
this. The players kept using their body languages a lot throughout this scene. Even
when nothing serious was happening they were still waving around their arms in
exclamation. I Predicted that when Flute found out he was to play a women that he
would have a fit and be very upset, but the actor was very calm and didnt have a serious
reaction at all. I was correct that Quince would maintain the roll of authority and
leadership throughout this scene. Quince maintained a professional attitude and his
actor portrayed him very well. I thought that the characters were going to portray
themselves to be “manly”, given their physical work fields, but they were not. I was
not aware of how much comedic purpose that Bottom served in this scene. I was correct
that Bottom would have an attitude towards Quinces leadership and second guess
everything Quince had to say. I thought he would be more sarcastic though. Reading
this play I thought that Quince would be the centre of attention but Bottom is. My only
advice to improve the quality of this scene is for the actors, especially Bottom to stop
waving their arms around so much, it is okay to use body language to express certain
moments, but it just doesn't look like to be constantly shaking your arms and yelling
during unimportant moments.

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" Act 1 Scene 2 review

The Director’s Cut:  My Understanding of 1.2

Who are these characters?

Quince, Snug, Bottom, Flute, Snout, and Starveling. These characters are men of physically demanding jobs. These characters could attempt to move and sound rough to give themselves the appearance of “manliness”.

What are they doing?

Quince: “Here is the scroll of every man's name, which is

thought fit, through all Athens, to play in our

interlude before the duke and the duchess, on his

wedding-day at night”. Bottom: “A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a

merry. Now, good Peter Quince, call forth your

actors by the scroll. Masters, spread yourselves”.

These tradesmen of Athens are planning to perform a play for their Duke’s wedding celebrations. Allow each character to make their own mark by giving them the spotlight for a moment. They should speak in a way to catch the interest of the audience.

Do these characters know each other well or are they strangers?

Bottom: “I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would
have no more discretion but to hang us. But I will aggravate my voice so that I will

roar you as gently as any sucking dove. I will roar you an ’twere any nightingale.”
They are clearly friends, so yes, the do know each other. A suggestion would be for the characters to act in a calm way with each other to show that they are friends. Also when
they speak to each other they could be more compassionate, but not to the point of
“babying” each other.

Who is the most important person on stage in this dramatic unit or scene?

Quince: “Some of your French crowns have no hair at all, and then you will play bare-faced. But, masters, here are your parts: and I am to entreat you, request you and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night;and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight;there will we rehearse, for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with company, and our devices known. In the meantime I will draw a bill of properties, such as our play

wants. I pray you, fail me not.” Quince is the most important person on stage in this scene because he is the one in charge of setting up and organizing the play. Quince should have a voice of leadership and authority among the other characters in the play.

What are the other characters in the scene like?

Snug: “Have you the lion’s part written? Pray you, if it be, give it me, for I am slow of study.”

Snug clearly is not the most intelligent character and he is not able to think for himself.

Flute: “Nay, faith, let me not play a woman. I have a beard coming.”

Flute seems to be a character with a sensitive self esteem and care for his reputation.

Snug should sound desperate and uncomfortable with the idea of not knowing what
is going on. Flute should sound upset and give an attitude even to the idea of him
playing a female role.

"The Suitcase Lady" Distractions

The Suitcase Lady talks about "drapes and carpets, castles and kings" to distract herself from her sad life. As the writer says, "with words she spins herself into a cocoon". the suitcase lady would create a false reality that would comfort her and distract herself from the sad and depressing reality.

"Growing up Native" Reflection

After reading Growing Up Native, I realized just how much discrimination and
racism Natives went through. The history of native people is very important and
society should never forget their history and what they had to endure.

The suffering they went through will never be forgotten.

“Suitcase Lady”

The struggles the “suitcase lady” undergoes daily is living on little to nothing.
Another struggle she has is loneliness, she has a son who is 40 but will not
talk to her and they never had a connection.

My reaction if a homeless person were to ask me for money would
most likely be to give some. If I had any spare change on me I would give
it. Or if I have some food I would also try to give that. I wouldn't not know
how to behave because I deal with situations like this quite regularly
whenever I go to downtown Toronto. My parents tell me if i'm going to give
something to homeless people it should just be food. A lot of people say
the same because there is the belief that as soon as you give money to
the homeless they turn the corner and buy drugs, but that isn't always
the case. I do feel comfortable by helping them but I will not lie and say
I feel secure. There is the constant stigma made that homeless people
are erratic and can do very stupid things to people because they have
nothing to lose and I have had a few experiences myself with this so I am
sometimes on edge when I am around homeless people. But I hope I hope
I lose this feeling of insecurity because they are regular people just like me.