L2+Introduction

= = = = =On this web quest you and a partner will choose a play to study which you will also need for the following web quest. You will gain an understanding of the meaning behind your play as well as the charatcers and undertones which add to creating "the world of the play". =

Before you and your partner decide on a play you must watch this short youtube documentary on shakespear and his plays.

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Now that you have a better understanding of Shakespeare you and your partner may now choose one of the following plays:

 - Hamlet (1600-1601)
Since its first recorded production, //Hamlet// has engrossed playgoers, thrilled readers, and challenged actors more so than any other play in the Western canon. No other single work of fiction has produced more commonly used expressions.

- Julius Caesar (1599-1600)
Although there were earlier Elizabethan plays on the subject of Julius Caesar and his turbulent rule, Shakespeare's penetrating study of political life in ancient Rome is the only version to recount the demise of Brutus and the other conspirators. - Romeo and Juliet (1594-1595)

Celebrated for the radiance of its lyric poetry, //Romeo and Juliet// was tremendously popular from its first performance. The sweet whispers shared by young Tudor lovers throughout the realm were often referred to as "naught but pure Romeo and Juliet."

//Macbeth// is one of Shakespeare's most stimulating and popular dramas. Renaissance records of Shakespeare's plays in performance are scarce, but a detailed account of an original production of //Macbeth// has survived.

- Romeo and Juliet (1562-1597)
// **Romeo and Juliet** // is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young  lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It is among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.