Tuesday, 1/15 - Shakespeare! Ha, HA!

• P&P

• Today we take a quiz on Oedipus!

1.     What is the significant difference between how the ancients viewed crime and how moderns view it?

2.     According to the ancients, what is the cultural significance of killing one's father?

3.     Explain how Oedipus develops the philosophical conundrum "the one and the many."

4.     In contrast to us moderns, the question "Who am I?" for the Greeks was closely linked to the question "_______________?"

5.     How is Creon a foil to Oedipus?   

• Now, let's discuss what you know about Shakespeare and Elizabethan England

 HW: procure a cheap paper copy of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. We will begin it tomorrow ; )