{"id":8086,"date":"2016-04-07T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=8086"},"modified":"2016-03-29T14:18:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T21:18:44","slug":"celebrating-shakespeare-shakespeares-influences-and-influencers-by-keely-coxwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/celebrating-shakespeare-shakespeares-influences-and-influencers-by-keely-coxwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Shakespeare: Shakespeare\u2019s Influences and Influencers By Keely Coxwell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BIGCALLOUT_Shakespeare\"<\/a>In honor of William Shakespeare we are celebrating the 400th anniversary of his death on April 23, 2016. What better way to do this, than by highlighting the writing done by first-year students in Associate Professor of English John Wesley\u2019s first-year seminar, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare? This first-year seminar in scholarly inquiry studies four remarkable plays Shakespeare wrote or saw into production in 1599, the same year he opened the Globe Theatre. In the first half of the course, students were introduced to the myriad ways in which Shakespeare\u2019s 1599 plays are shaped by and give shape to the political and cultural intrigues of that year. In the second half of the course, students turned to a play (and year) of their own choosing, the historicist analysis of which is the basis of an independent research project. As part of this project, students were asked to prepare a blog post that reflected on aspects of Shakespeare’s life, a specific work, or a resource or organization associated with Shakespeare, or to provide a personal interpretation of a play. During the month of April, we\u2019ll feature the posts from students that celebrate all things Shakespeare!
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Congratulations to our wonderful first-year writers. For additional online resources about Shakespeare, check out these sites:<\/p>\n