CONDITIONALS REVISION

THE ORIGINS AND THE MIDDLE AGES

REVISING BALLADS

A ballad is a type of poem that tells a story and was traditionally set to music. English language ballads are typically composed of four-line stanzas that follow an ABCB rhyme scheme.  Read here.
Its distinctive style crystallized in Europe in the late Middle Ages and persists to the present day in communities where literacy, urban contacts, and mass media have little affected the habit of folk singing. Read here.

"Scarborough Fair," popularized in the United States by the 1960s singer-songwriting duo Simon & Garfunkel, is an English folk song about a market fair that took place in the town of Scarborough in Yorkshire during medieval times. Read here. 

https://ingleseperitaliani.jimdofree.com/letteratura-3-anno/the-ballad/the-medieval-ballad-commentary-to-lord-randal/

TO BE OR NOT TO BE SOLILOQUY

Hamlet’s "To Be Or Not To Be" Soliloquy

https://webtv.loescher.it/media/content/hamlet-text-1-675383

SHAKESPEARE PODCASTS

Staging Shakespeare is series of video commentaries on performing and directing Shakespeare including extracts of some plays.
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Here you can find brand new audio versions of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, plus documentaries from the brightest minds on the Bard’s life and work.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH AS HAMLET

MAY

"Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves;
And mid-May's eldest child,
The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves."
John Keats