MY DEAR FRIENDS, THIS IS WHAT I AM ASKING YOU TO DO IN the

FRAMEWORK OF YOUR INDIVIDUAL (self-facilitated) studies

[ САМОСТІЙНА РОБОТА ]

PLEASE PROVIDE YOUR COMMENTS ON THE FOLLOWING

TOPICS
1. William Shakespeare’s “MACBETH”: FIND THE FOLLOWING
WORDS IN MACBETH’SS soliloquy : “ Life is a walking
shadow....signifying nothing”. WHAT DO THESE WORDS MEAN in
the context of the play?
2. William Shakespeare’s “OTHELLO” WHAT DOES OTHELLO’s
death tell us , readers? Comment on Desdemona’s taking full
blame on herself saying: “NOBODY, I MYSELF, FAREWELL”
3. WilLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S “RICHARD !!!”: DO YOU AGREE WITH
THE STATEMENT THAT RICHARD !!! is a villain with an intellect of
a genius? Why?
4. WILLIAM Shakespeare’s “THE 12th NIGHT”: Comment on ther
following types of passions represented by VIOLA, ORSINO,
MALVOLIO, SEBASTIAN. OR YOU MAY COMMENT ON THE
FUNCTIONS OF THE sub- plot in the play (choose either task)
5. Willam Shakespeare’s “THE TAMING OF THE SHREW”: WHAT IS
THE MEANING OF THE FINAL SCENE: PETRUCHIO WINS A BET
AFTER KATHARINA GIVES A SPEECH EXTOLLING THE VIRUES OF
OF A WIFELY SUBSERVIENCE
6. THE ANALYSIS OF any WILLIIAM SHAKESPEARE’S SONNET .
(addressee; the theme; the persona; the meter; the rhyme
scheme; the Meanining of the final two lines; metaphors-similes-
epithets) (THE ANASLYSIS SHOULD NOT BE LONG: 1-2 pages)
7. LAURENCE STERNE”S “TRISTRAM SHANDY “: PROVIDE at least
10
most important ideas (observations, comments, characteristics)
related both to the content (зміст) and form (форма) of this
unique novel. WHY IS IT CHARACTERIZED AS A SENTIMENTAL
NOVEL?

BELOW ARE THE POTENTIAL ENTRIES TO YOUR own

TERMINOLOGICAL GLOSSARY. DECODE THEIR MEANINS!
Epic
Saga
A scop
Harp
Lyre
Alliteration (example)
Kenning (example)
In medias res (example)
Stock character (example)
The matter of Britain
Romance
Ballad
Robyn Hood
King Arthur and the brotherhood of the Knights of the Round
Table (Holy Grail; Arthur; Lancelot and Guinevere; Modred;
Tristram and Isolde; who is Thomas Malory? Chivalric code)
Allegory (example)
Metaphysical poets
Conceit (example)
Pun
Paradox
Epigram
Euphuism
University WITS
Renaissance and Humanism
Picaresque novel
Blank verse ( EARL of Surrey)
Iambic pentameter
Heroic couplet
Masque
Spenserian stanza
Play within the play (sub-plot)
Irony
NACHIAVELLIAN character
Hubris;
Hamartia;
Catharsis;
Farce
Shakespearian Chronicles
HAMLET’S soliloquy (+ transcription)
Tragi-comedy (examples)
Satire
Persona;
Rhyme
Meter
Sonnet
addressee
Telling names
Ben Jonson’s theory of HUMORS
UTOPIA
Shakespearian question
Blazon
Cross-section of the society in Chocer’s CANTERBURY TALES
MEDIEVAL TABLIAUX (transcription and examples)
Enlightenment
Tragedy
Comedy (HIGH; LOW; ROMANTIC)
Anagnorisis
THE AGE OF REASON (AUGUSTAN CLASSICISM) [Enlightenment in
English literature] (examples). (Ще ПОПЕРЕДУ!)
Epistolary novel
NOTE: THIS LIST OF THE ENTRIES IS OPEN . WE ARE GOING TO
INCLUDE A FEW MORE UNITS in the GLOSSARY OF TERMS
DURING OUR ONGOING COURSE OF LECTURES AND SEMINARS.
FEEL FREE TO ASK ME ANY QUESTIONS!
GOOD LUCK!!