The Winter's Tale Animated: Part 3

As years past, now Perdita has grow to be a beautiful lass. But, there's problem awaits her.What is it?Continue watching friends!!

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The Winter's Tale Animated: Part 2

'So full of art jealousy is guilt, It spills it self in fearing to be split'. (William Shakespeare)

Jealousy if not prevent can leads to worst. Now, in this part you'll see what has come to Leontes cause by his own jealousy.

Leontes's jealousy cost him his Prince and Hermione's life. Besides, it also make him the heartless king, who without deep thought,disinherits his own daughter. 

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The Winter's Tale Animated: Part 1

Studying play by reading alone might be very boring and difficult for some of us. But, don't give up! Why not take some rest and chillax by watching this Shakespeare adaption of The Winter's Tale. Once you get the idea of what the play is about you can continue read the play again. Isn't that easy?

So friends, this is the first part of The Winter's Tale animated. Hope you enjoy it :)

This part is the intro to the whole play. In this part, we will be introduce to the important characters of this play; Leontes, Polixenes, Hermione, and Camillo. While you watching this why not think of these questions:

1) Why Leontes is so mad to Hermione?

2) What makes Camillo to turn his back on Leontes and leaves Sicilia?

Hope you'll find this part helpful. I will upload the second part soon! 

* Video retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKGUCXf-Cu0&feature=related (Property of the BBC)

The Winter's Tale

Lets look through at the brief introductory of this wonderful play...

Overturn the seasons with Riding Lights' retelling of THE WINTER'S TALE by William Shakespeare, directed by Paul Burbridge and designed by Sean Cavanagh.

A CROWN, A PALACE, AN ISLAND IN THE MED, a delightful wife and family - they sound like the stuff of paradise, the life of the man who has everything. But that man is Leontes, and this Sicilian paradise has a spider lurking in its claret...

An obsessive suspicion is poisoning Leontes' mind. The poison spreads, wreaking disastrous havoc throughout his family and his kingdom - his wife is imprisoned and condemned, his son dies, his oldest friends flee the country and a baby daughter is abandoned to the elements.

But even while things are at their darkest, seeds of new life are taking root. The resurrection theme of The Winter's Tale moves in with surging energy and robust humour, on a tide of new love, faithful friendship, high summer and celebration.

The Winter's Tale is ideally suited to the style for which Riding Lights has become renowned over 19 years - a unique blend of epic drama and high comedy. It is a compelling story to grip your mind and warm your heart, as it moves from the winter wastes of jealousy ... to the place where things come back to life.

This play had taken place from 5th to 30th November 1996 at The Bridewell Theatre

Source : http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rltc/winterstale.html

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

Tired of Othello???
Let's move on to our second play for this semester.
As you can see from the title above, we will be introducing all of you viewer's out there to The Winter's Tale also a masterpiece by the great man; Shakespeare himself.
This play is categorized as a comedy play and involves a lot of human nature in it.
Its basically about two royal families who were at first in good terms with each other, eventually the relationship were falling apart due to jealousy, misunderstanding, infidelity, possessions, forbidden love and etc.
it has more of a Bollywood setting in it whereby there are a lot of spices and drama mixed all together to reach to an expected ending.
"They lived happily ever after" ;)
We will be updating all of you with a more reader-friendly approach for this play's information.
Please leave your comments in order to help us to improve in this blog and also our HXE 300 Elizabethan Literature course...

Wrap Up Othello Play

It had been almost 4 weeks since we were discussing about Othello either here, or even in lectures.
as all of you know, we Literature students have 2 perform a play by the end of this semester.
therefore, with the help of our young and energetic lecturer, Dr. Nurul Farhana, we were introduced to a lecturer from the Arts School of USM to help us out with our acting.
he had guided us about the plot, setting, mood, lighting, etc.
it is quite tiring though, but it will be an eye opening experience for us, especially in acting field as majority of us has no idea what acting is all about ;)
we will be meeting every friday morning 8.00 to 10.00am to work on our scripts etc.
just waiting for the day to come soon!
Good Luck all!

Symbols in Othello

There are 2 important symbols in Othello:

1) The song “Willow”

The song has been sung by Desdemona in Act 5 when she is about to go to bed. The song is about a woman who is betrayed by her lover. She taught the song from her mother’s maid who has experienced the similar misfortune to the woman in the song. Even, she is singing the song when she died. The song lyrics are about man and woman who are unfaithful to each other. As for Desdemona, the song lyrics represent a melancholy and resigned acceptance of her difference from Othello’s affections. The song leads Desdemona to question Emilia about the nature and her view about infidelity.

2) The handkerchief

The handkerchief is the important symbol in Othello. Handkerchief has different symbol to different characters. As for Desdemona, handkerchief is the symbol of love, because she received it from Othello. She keeps the handkerchief as the symbol of Othello’s love towards her. On the other hand, the handkerchief has been a symbol of betrayal of trust by Iago. He manipulates the handkerchief to convinced Othello that Desdemona has betrayed Othello’s love by taking possession of the handkerchief. Besides that, to Othello himself, the handkerchief is very important. He tells Desdemona that it was woven by a 200 years old sibyl, using silk from sacred worms and dye extracted from the hearts of mummified virgins. Othello also claimed that the handkerchief belong to her late mother. Her mother kept the handkerchief as the symbol of loyalty to the marriage and Othello’s father. Therefore, Othello also feel the same way as his mother about the handkerchief. Furthermore, notice that the picture that has been sew on the handkerchief. The pattern of strawberries (dyed with virgin’s blood) on a white background strongly suggests the bloodstains is left on the sheets on a virgin’s wedding night, therefore, the handkerchief is proved to represent the symbol of virginity and infidelity in Othello.