Thursday, March 21, 2013

My class has to read Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet  this quarter. I know a lot of people in today's world have trouble understanding Shakespeare's works (I know I do), so here's a few links to sites that can help these people out.

http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com

This handy site has tons of information about Shakespeare's plays as well as the man himself. If you're trying to learn about or understand anything Shakespeare-related, this is the first place you should go.

http://shakespeare.about.com/od/teachingshakespeare/a/shakespeare_words.htm

A list of all the hard-to-understand words and phrases in Shakespeare's works and what they mean exactly.

http://www.shakespearehigh.com/

Essentially an online classroom for learnign about Shakespeare, this site should be helpfull to any student.

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/howtostudybard.html

Provides all kinds of information, strategies and tips to help you deal with any Shakespearian literature you come across.

http://www.enotes.com/romeo-and-juliet-text/strategies-for-understanding

This one is devoted specifically to Romeo and Juliet, but the tips it contains actually apply to any of his works.

"Nice description, Eric, I also liked Divergent.
Somehow, though, I was never really a fan of Tris; I just never thought she was a very interesting character for some reason."