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Part 1

· Initial discussion board posts are due by 11:59 P.M. on Thursday. For your initial discussion post, you should:

· select one of the questions below:

· How does Shakespeare's work embody the concerns of British literature during his era?

· How are gender dynamics of his era revealed in Shakespeare's work?

· How are cultural norms defined as evidenced by Shakespeare's work?

· Why does Shakespeare's work continue to be popular over four hundred years after his work was published?

· write a well developed paragraph around 250 to 300 words that answers the question and includes:

· a clearly defined topic sentence

· at least one MLA formatted quotation from the assigned readings of literature for this module

· three or more sentences that explain how the quotation supports the topic sentence 

· Be careful not to confuse editorial sections of the assigned readings with the literature (poems, stories, sermons, speeches, essays, etc.)