MY SUNDAY MOVIE - MRS DALLOWAY

Here you can read a review of the movie.

"Clarissa had a theory in those days . . . that since our apparitions, the part of us which appears, are so momentary compared with the other, the unseen part of us, which spreads wide, the unseen might survive, be recovered somehow attached to this person or that, or even haunting certain places after death . . . perhaps—perhaps."

SHAKESPEARE IN THE CLASSROOM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE!

According to tradition, the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564. It is impossible to be certain of the exact day on which he was born, but church records show that he was baptised on April 26, and three days was a customary amount of time to wait before baptising a newborn. 

HAPPY EARTH DAY!

HAPPY EASTER!

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - 1^C LINGUISTICO

 

Beauty and the Beast  is a traditional fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740. 

A widowed merchant lives in a mansion with his six children, three sons and three daughters. All his daughters are very beautiful, but the youngest, Beauty, is the most lovely, as well as kind, well-read, and pure of heart; while the two elder sisters, in contrast, are wicked, selfish, vain, and spoiled. 

Continue listening and reading this fascinating story ...

HAMLET - 4^C LINGUISTICO

Hamlet is generally considered the greatest revenge tragedy, if not the greatest tragedy, if not the greatest play, ever written. The central reason for the play's reputation is the character of Hamlet. His brooding (=gloomy), unpredictable nature has been analysed by many of the most famous thinkers and artists of the past four centuries. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe described him as a poet - a sensitive man who is too weak to deal with the political pressures of Denmark. 

The story of the play originates in the legend of Hamlet as recounted in the 12^th-century Danish History, a Latin text by Saxo the Grammarian. Shakespeare was probably aware of this version, together with another play performed in 1589 in which a ghost apparently calls out, "Hamlet, revenge!" The 1589 play is lost, but most scholars attribute it to Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy of 1587. The Spanish Tragedy shares many elements with Hamlet, such as a ghost seeking revenge, a secret crime, a play-within-a-play, a tortured hero who feigns madness, and a heroine who goes mad and commits suicide.

MAGNA CARTA - 3^C LINGUISTICO

Signed in June 1215 between the barons and King John, "Magna Carta" is Latin and means “Great Charter”. It was one of the most important documents of Medieval England. Read here and here.
Here you can find a PDF presentation of Magna Carta.

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