R & G Are Not Dead...Yet: April 26, 2018

Focus: What control / agency do the characters have or lack over their universe?

Please print and turn in your culminating essay by 3:00 pm today.

1. Warming up with your own question game using yesterday's brainstorming

2. Reading the second half of Act II together with musical chairs

• Questions for final two rounds:

• What are R & G's thoughts on death?

• Why the play within a play within a play?

3. Thinking through the play artistically:

• Try illustrating the characters from each "world" in this play (R & G, the Hamlet characters, the tragedians/actors performing the dumbshow) in a way that demonstrates how much control the characters have over their worlds.

• For example, does one world exist inside another? Are they each subject to the same laws?

• If the illustration is throwing you off, try simply forming a scale, or a spectrum, of control, and consider where each character falls.

HW:
Take five minutes before you go to bed each night to flip through our first semester terms and our second semester academic vocabulary. That's it!