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Shakespeare on Film

Final

Summer 2016

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1. What is “metadrama”? Write a one-page essay that uses A Midsummer Night’s Dream and at least one other play to explain the concept of metadrama. You can use course materials, including the metadrama handout, but you cannot do research on the internet to address this question. Ground your response in the printed text of the play but you can use the film interpretations to illustrate points you want to make. (50)

2. At the end of The Taming of the Shrew, is the shrew tamed? Write an essay in which you explain your interpretation of this central question of the play. Make sure you use close readings of the key speeches in the play to develop your interpretation. (50)

Bonus: Here is an image from early in Zeffirelli’s film The Taming of the Shrew, one of our first views of Kate, the shrew. Offer your interpretation of what this shot tells us about this character in this play. (5)