V. Vysotsky:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URMKUIuA4ZE&feature=related

I. Smoktunovsky:

http://baseofmp3.com/?q=%CC%EE%ED%EE%EB%EE%E3+%E3%E0%EC%EB%E5%F2%E0+%E1%FB%F2%FC+%E8%EB%E8+%ED%E5+%E1%FB%F2%FC

(at the last page you may also find other videos)

Extra writing task*

• Imagine you are a character of “Hamlet” and write a short diary entry about the past events. Include events from the play and how you feel about them. Write in the voice of the character (using words he or she would use and saying things he or she would say). If you have read Russian translation write in Russian. Be ready to present the text.

Bibliography

А. Аникст. Прекрасный друг и смуглая дама. – Доступ с:

http://willmshakespeare.com/anikst2.htm

Т. Бузина. Магистральный сюжет у Шекспира. – Доступ с:

http://eur-lang.narod.ru/histart/tudor/shakespeare_outline.html

The picture of the Fair Youth in Shakespeare's Sonnets

http://literary-articles.blogspot.com/2009/12/picture-of-fair-youth-in-shakespeares.html

Shakespeare authorship question:

http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/?p=35

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~datamining/Final.pdf

For discussion of “Hamlet”:

http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/hamletques.htm

http://english.sxu.edu/boyer/304_rdg_qst/ham_nor_qst.htm

Extreme interpretations of “Hamlet”:

http://w-shakespeare.narod.ru/hamlet-6.htm

Practical Class 3. Romanticism in English Literature

Texts for discussion (read everything in English)

William Blake. Songs of Innocence. Songs of Experience. (choose 1-2 poems)

George Gordon Byron. She Walks in Beauty. When We Two Parted. My Soul is Dark.

William Wordsworth. We are Seven. Idiot Boy.

Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ode to the West Wind.

John Keats. Ode on a Grecian Urn.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (you may read it in Russian)

Mary Shelley. Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus

I. Read biographies of William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, John Keats, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley. Try to find the most interesting facts. Find names of their main literary works. Formulate their main achievements.

To test your knowledge you’ll participate in a short quiz.

II. Read theoretical material about Romanticism as a literary movement. Prepare examples from the poems (Texts for discussion) to illustrate each feature of romantic literature

III. Main part of this practical class will be dedicated to analysis of poetic texts. Texts of all poems should be read very carefully. Choose one poem to participate in its analysis at class (2-3 poems will be analyzed).

Provide the written / printed variant of analysis of one poem (extra task*).

Poem Analysis

• Read all poems mentioned in section “texts for discussion”. You must choose one to analyze. Select a poem that speaks to you (or at least one that you can attempt to analyze). Be careful. Sometimes the shorter poems are the most difficult and ambiguous poems.

• Translate all unknown words. Listen to the poem. Try to create your own impression. Read the poem at least 3 times.

• If you are analyzing a poem, it is probably quite well-known and already has much written about it. Research and read about the poem. Other literary criticism can aid you in your analysis. Be careful, however, not to copy, plagiarize, or ignore the original poem. You must come up with a new thought, a new analysis, for the poem. Simply copying someone else's ideas will not be sufficient. There is a variety of examples providing analysis throughout the Internet. Read several of them.

• Use an encyclopaedia or the Internet to look up people and places mentioned in the poem. These allusions may be a key to the poet’s attitudes and ideas.

• For more careful and detailed instructions use Application 1 and bibliography

IV. Read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by S. T. Coleridge. Be ready to answer the following questions. Prepare quotes (in Russian) to illustrate your answers.