Assignment:
Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays
• For your initial discussion post, you should:
o Select one of the questions below:
- How does Shakespeare's work embody the concerns of British literature during his era?
- How are gender dynamics of his era revealed in Shakespeare's work?
- How are cultural norms defined as evidenced by Shakespeare's work?
- What sins condemn the characters in Shakespeare's tragedies? What does this dynamic reveal about concerns of the people of Shakespeare's era?
- Why does Shakespeare's work continue to be popular over four hundred years after his work was published?
o Write a well developed paragraph around 250 to 300 words that answers the question and includes:
- a clearly defined topic sentence
- at least one MLA formatted quotation from the assigned readings of literature for this module
- three or more sentences that explain how the quotation supports the topic sentence
o Be careful not to confuse editorial sections of the assigned readings with the literature (poems, stories, sermons, speeches, essays, etc.)