Lucia oh dear!

Now the school has decided to celebrate Lucia on Friday..

So all of those who had planned to do their Classic book talk on Friday will have to do it either:

This Wednesday at 14.00 or next Wednesday at 14.00

Week 50
Name	Title of book	Author
Linn Calles	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
Frida Deras	Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe
Elin Bäckström	Sense and sensibility	Jane Austen
Hannes Wahlström	Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
Simon Lundh	Robinson Crusoe
Clara Linnaeus	Pride and Prejudice
Jonas Fändriks	The three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas
Gustav Westerberg	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Arthur Conan Doyle
Lukas Nygårdh	The Trumpet of the Swan	E.B. White
Linus Holmberg	Robinson crusoe	Daniel Defoe

+ Linnea

+Ulrika

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Today we will spend some time looking through the play and the way Shakespeare creates his comedy.

Then afterwards we can look at some study questions and answers for the first three acts.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Study Questions and Answers

From Shakespeare Explained by Forrest Lunt. New York: Hearst's International Library. 

ACT I - SCENE I 

1. What does Shakespeare tell about the characters Proteus and Valentine, lines 63-68? 

Valentine is shown to be a man of action, generous, unemotional, true; Proteus is a man of reflection, selfish, emotional, false. 

2. Is this scene humorous? Why? 

Yes. See lines 20, 23-40, 70-158. The play upon words in the scene between Valentine and Proteus; the play upon words in the scene between Speed and Proteus; and Speed himself make the humor. 

SCENE II 

3. Compare the first 50 lines of this scene with The Merchant of Venice Act I, Scene ii, lines 37-140. 

Note the similarity in the speeches of Lucetta and Portia; Julia and Nerissa. 

4. What are your conclusions? 

That Shakespeare liked the scene in the earlier play and therefore developed the same situation when he wrote The Merchant of Venice. That Shakespeare used whatever he liked or whatever "took" more than once. 

SCENE III 

5. Why is this an important scene? 

Because it tells the audience that Proteus, the devotee of love, is to be separated from the woman he loves and, therefore, raises the questions, "How will he act?" "What will he do?" 

ACT II - SCENE I 

6. What shows you that Valentine's love for Silvia is genuine? 

Valentine's failure to see through Silvia's device (see lines 121-140) suggests that his love for her is genuine. 

SCENE II 

7. What is the reason for giving this short scene? 

In order to show Proteus and Julia together. After hearing his speech, lines 8-12, an audience would be further interested in the questions raised at the end of Act I, Scene iii. 

SCENE III 

8. What kind of humor is found in this scene? 

9. Do you enjoy it? 

Natural, homely nonsense. If one sees the clown leading his dog by a string onto the stage, the quibbling wit of the speeches will probably cause laughter. 

SCENE IV 

10. How does Thurio reveal his character, lines 10-42? 

By his speeches, especially lines 12, 20 and 30. In the first he shows jealousy; in the second, stupidity; in the third, anger. 

SCENE V 

11. Would comedy of this kind interest a modern audience? 

It would depend upon the way it was played. The words read probably seem uninteresting but the action which goes with the words on the stage would cause laughter. This scene shows the absolute necessity of visualizing a play. 



ACT III 

12. Which character is the more interesting, Valentine or Proteus? 

The answer will depend upon the reader; whether he is more interested in seeing treachery punished or honesty and love rewarded. Both are interesting. 

A short piece of the play from a Youtube clip from "Shakespeare in Love" 

Finally, when I disappear to have my online class in Spanish there is a final exercise on "Two Gentlemen of Verona".

It needs to be done by the start of the spring term.