"That's all folks!'

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                             As Porky Pig always says at the end of each show, "That's all folks!' and this is my last blog. I enjoyed the class with Professor Quarrell. I believe overall that Shakespeare has build women characters who were strong which didn't support the Renaissance era. As I stated numerous times women were suppose to be submissive but Shakespeare created these characters in his play that weren't. For example, Juliet fell in love with the enemy of her family, Romeo and fought for that love to her last breath and then there was Kate and Beatrice who voiced their opinion and were known as shrews.

WEEK 16: Sonnets 18-20

                                      Shakespeare's Sonnets

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This week we read Shakespeare's sonnets `18-20, which some people believe is Shakespeare professing his love to a young man which I don't agree with. I believe that this week doesn't support the way women were treated in the Renaissance era because usually men didn't have to woe a woman their father were the ones they needed to woe. Women were treated like a product that was negotiated as business transactions between families.

WEEK 15: Queer Theory Defined

Queer Theory Defined

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        The definition of queer I believe doesn't support the Renaissance era because men viewed as masculine men in control of the women. In the Queer theory men were seen as feminine which doesn't support the way they should act.

WEEK 14: The Sonnets

This week's assignment allowed us to examine a a sonnet in three different exercises. I believe this week doesn't support the Renaissance image of women because during that era women weren't mention as wonderful beings like Shakespeare is creating them to be in the sonnet. In the Renaissance era weren't allowed to act.

Sonnet 18 By: William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed,

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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WEEK 13: FAVORITE WEEK "WEEK 6"

When I look back at all of the blogs I would have to my favorite week was week 6. Week 6 we were able to watch a movie called the BBC Shakespeare Retold: Taming of the Shrew. The character in the movie were wonderful. I love the role of Kate. She was a strong woman who stood up for herself . She was considered mean and ugly but at the end she still had her happy ending married with triplets.

I believe week six didn't support women in the Renaissance era because at that time the women gender were submissive. The women were suppose to do what they were told and Kate didn't.

WEEK 12: The Tempest

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I love the animated version of Shakespeare. I believe this video support the Renaissance era because in the opening scene you see Miranda next to her father to show that a daughter should always be by the side of her father or husband.

WEEK 11: The Tempest

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This week's reading we meet Caliban that was betrayed by Prospero and Miranda. Caliban so enraged attempts to rape Miranda which supports the treatment of women in the reinassance era even Caliban needs to show that he is the dominant one not Miranda.

WEEK11: Sir Walter Raleigh

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Sir Walter Raleigh was married three times. His most famous marriage was to Catherine daughter of Sir Philip Champernown of Modbury. He was Queen Elizabeth's favorite. I believe that Sir Walter Raleigh supports the Renaissance way of treating women. He was married more than once which shows that he just needed a companion and didn't value women much. He was all about being dominant and having money. Queen Elizabeth gave him money but never a title.

WEEK 10: Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary

The Renaissance era used words like shrew to mean evil and strong women. Katherine and Beatrice was shrew. I believe that Lady Macbeth was also considered shrew.

   Shrews women don't support the Renaissance era because these women aren't housewives that let the men dominate them. 

WEEK 9: Women in "Macbeth"

Women in "Macbeth"

 

In the Renaissance era women weren't considered equal with men. Women weren't able to own property. Men were allowed to beat their women as long as they didn't kill them.

The Macbeth family didn't support the Renaissance era because they didn't have children. All family in the era had children and wanted more.  The men in the era were always the dominant ones and their wives weren't their equal but Macbeth thought of his wife as his equal that had the same power as him.

WEEKS 1-8

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Week 1 through 8 is about women who voice their opinions and don't stand behind. They let the male do all the talking. The female characters are all strong women and characters that everyone would like because they are fighting for a cause. The characters are respectful. Week 9, we will explore a different type of female characters. These female characters are wicked.

WEEK 8: "Much Ado About Nothing" Dir. Kenneth Brannagh

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I love this version of "Much Ado About Nothing" because the scenery is fantastic. The director did well by showing how beautiful nature is. The video I have posted above is the beginning of the movie, when Beatrice insults Benedick. Beatrice like many of Shakespeare's female character don't act the part of a Renaissance women. A Renaissance women is suppose to speak highly of men not insult them.

WEEK 7: "Much Ado About Nothing" Reading Check

Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. (Act 1. Sc. 1.) The quote that I stated above shows how Benedick and Beatrice's  relationship is like love and hate. Beatrice is insulting Benedick without him being present.    Beatrice is a woman just like Katherine from "The Taming of the Shrew" who stood up for what she believed in and didn't care of what anyone thought of her. Beatrice's uncle said to Beatrice that Benedick wasn't a bad man and that they didn't personally know each other but Beatrice didn't want to hear it.

WEEK 6: BBC Shakespeare Retold and Act V of "Taming of The Shrew"

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The video I have uploaded to this post is when Petruchio met Kate (Katherine). At first he wanted to marry Kate for money but once he met her he knew that she was the love of his life. Kate was his picture perfect wife. Kate didn't want anything to do with him at first. We might believe that their relationship wasn't picture perfect but for them it was. They balance each other out. Katherine played a women that was a outcast in the Renaissance era because usually the women were pleasant and Kate wasn't pleasant. Kate was horrific but I believe towards the ending of the move she was a little tamed.

"Act V of The Taming of The Shrew"

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee ,And for thy maintenance commits his bodyTo painful labour both by sea and land,To watch the night in storms,

the day in cold,Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;And craves no other tribute at thy handsBut love, fair looks and true obedience;Too little payment for so great a debt.Such duty as the subject owes the princeEven such a woman oweth to her husband;And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,And not obedient to his honest will,What is she but a foul contending rebelAnd graceless traitor to her loving lord?I am ashamed that women are so simpleTo offer war where they should kneel for peace;Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway,When they are bound to serve, love and obey.

(The Taming of the Shrew Act V, Scene II)

As I quoted above Kate started a transformation of being a good wife to her husband. and she let it be known by mentioning it. Kate states that the women should obey their husband and that her marriage is for eternity.

WEEK 5: "Taming of The Shrew"

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I love the film BBC Shakespeare Retold: The Taming of the Shrew. I can watch this film over and over again. Shirley Henderson played a great role. I love the character Kate because she is a strong female. Her character isn't at all how most of the women in the Renaissance era were. Women were suppose to be housewives and only the men would work. Kate was a character that worked from the beginning of the film to the end. She was able to have a family and a career. She was a women that other women in era envied because they wished they had the courage to stand up for what they believe in. I know that most of the young girls were dying inside because they couldn't voice their opinion on what kind of man they would like to marry.

WEEK 4: Romeo and Juliet. Dir. Baz Luhrmann

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Director Bas Luhrman did a superb remake of Romeo and Juliet. I remember when the movie first came out, I went with my friends to watch the movie in the movie theater. I fell in love even more with Shakespeare's. The women in this film are portrayed just like many women in this era were. The men were dominate and the women needed to obey their father or husband. The females like Juliet weren't able to choose their mate. A suitable man was chosen by the father. The women also marry at a very young age. Juliet was a female that was very strong minded and didn't want to follow her father's orders. Juliet chose a path that at the end was death but I believe that she was happy because she was with her love Romeo in a peaceful place. They went to heaven a place where their parent's hate couldn't reach or destroy their love for one another. 

WEEK 3: Romeo and Juliet

      

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This week reading does uphold to Renaissance expectations regarding the female gender because female weren't able to wed freely. Romeo and Juliet support that notion because Juliet's father wanted her to marry someone she didn't love.

WEEK 2: Background on Theater

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"Shakespeare in Love" Mini-Lecture

                       This was a very informative week about the theaters. The poor people would stand up and watch the plays. The plays were mostly to impress the Queen. The theaters were up and running because the Queen love the plays.

                        I didn't like much the idea that the men played both male and female parts. Females weren't able to participate in the plays. I am so happy that this era has changed. Individuals in our era are treated as equal, females have definitely come a long way. The image of women does uphold Renaissance expectations regarding the female gender because women aren't suppose to be equal with men.

WEEK1 : Gender Roles in Elizabethan England

Gender Roles in Elizabethan England

            The image of womanhood represented in this piece is of females that don't have a voice and aren't able to take control of their own lives which we will see a lot of throughout this semester. The image of a woman not having a voice on any matters concerning herself does uphold to Renaissance expectations regarding the female gender. During the Renaissance era female were to listen to their fathers and husbands. They couldn't make any decision just like in the Gender Roles' piece. Women were shown how to run a household so they may be good housewives. Education was not provided for women. The Renaissance are shows to all female how far we have made it. Women weren't even able to act. The men would play the female roles.