Teacher 1. Dear friends,dear guests we announce the second sitting of our Literary club.
It is dedicated to William Shakespeare-the Great Bard,the Swan of Avon,the Great Unknown.

Some facts:

Compere 1. When Shakespeare’s works were gathered together for posthumous publication in the First Folio edition of 1623; they were divided into comedies and tragedies. But “comedies begin in trouble and end in peace; tragedies begin in calm and end in tempest”. We are going to speak about tragedies,comedies and sonnets of William Shakespeare.

Демонстрация слайдов –портрета Шекспира, домика Шекспира . На их фоне учащиеся рассказывают биографию Шекспира.

Compere 2 : William Shakespeare was born April 23, 1564 in Stradford-on-Avon. His father was a farmer, and his mother was from a poor noble family. The population of that town was only about 2000. There were six children in the family, and William was the eldest. Very little is known about William’s education. He went to the local Grammar School. He got married when he was only 18. His eldest son’s name was Hamlet. He worked as an actor at James Burbadge’s company in London.

Демонстрация слайдов –театра Глобус и персонажей Шекспира . На их фоне учащиеся рассказывают биографию Шекспира.

Compere 1: In 1599 the Burbadge brothers and Shakespeare bought the Globe Theatre. Shakespeare worked as an actor and a playwright there. So most of his time he spent in London; his wife and children lived in Stradford-on Avon. He has written many comedies, such as: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Twelfth Night and others. He has also written tragedies now world famous: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth and others. He became famous as a playwright in 1592.

Compere 2: Do you know the name of the Prince of Denmark? Yes, it is Hamlet.
Демонстрация слайдов – Гамлет . На его фоне ученик читает монолог Гамлета..

Pupil 1.

To be, or not to be, that is the question: –
Whether’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune:
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them? – To die –; to sleep,
No more; – and, by a sleep, to say we end
The heart ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh in heir to, – ‘tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die; – to sleep; –
To sleep
!
Pupil 2.
Быть или не быть – таков вопрос;
Что благородней духом – покоряться
Пращам и стрелам яростной судьбы
Иль, ополчась на море смут, сразить их
Противоборством? Умереть, уснуть –
И только; и сказать, что сном кончаешь
Тоску и тысячу природных мук,
Наследье плоти, – как такой развязки
Не жаждать? Умереть, уснуть, – Уснуть!

Pupil 3 Essay on Hamlet prepared beforehand.

Compere 1: “To be, or not to be; that is the question”
This quotation is known to everybody, but there are a lot of other famous quotations and interesting expressions from Shakespeare’s plays. Let us dwell upon some of them:

 There is no darkness but ignorance. (pre-arranged essay)
 Men are masters of their fate. (pre-arranged essay)
 All the world’s stage,and all the men and women merely players.
(oral essay)
 Love looks with the eys not with the mind,
And therefore the winged cupid’s painted blind. (discussion)

Compere 2. Romeo and Juliet, how did they meet each other? Scene at the Ball.

R&J Scene V. (Сцена на балу. Знакомство)
Capulet's house.

Rom. If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

Jul. Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

Rom. Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

Jul. Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in pray'r.
Rom. O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do!
They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

Jul. Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

Rom. Then move not while my prayer's effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purg'd. [Kisses her.]

Jul. Then have my lips the sin that they have took.

Rom. Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg'd!
Give me my sin again. [Kisses her.]

Jul. You kiss by th' book.

Nurse. Madam, your mother craves a word with you.

Rom. What is her mother?

Nurse. Her mother is the lady of the house.
And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous.
I nurs'd her daughter that you talk'd withal.

Rom. Is she a Capulet?
O dear account! my life is my foe's debt.

Exeunt [all but Juliet and Nurse].

Jul. Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman?

Nurse. The son and heir of old Tiberio.

Jul. Go ask his name.- If he be married,
My grave is like to be my wedding bed.

Nurse. His name is Romeo, and a Montague,
The only son of your great enemy.

Jul. My only love, sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy. (Exeunt.)

Compere 1. Enough with tragedies! The Twelfth Night,ladies and gentlemen!
( Pre-history: the cruel and stupid chief steward to Olivia,the beautiful countess, was cheated by the coward servants.They passed him the false letter from Olivia in which he is praised for his wit and so on)

Twelfth Night . Scene IV. Olivia’s Garden

Enter OLIVIA and MARIA

OLIVIA. I have sent after him; he says he'll come.
Where is Malvolio?
MARIA. He's coming, madam; but in very strange manner.
He is sure possess'd, madam.
OLIVIA. Why, what's the matter? Does he rave?
MARIA. No, madam, he does nothing but smile. Your ladyship were
best to have some guard about you if he come; for sure the man is
tainted in's wits.

Exit MARIA

OLIVIA. Go call him hither.
I am as mad as he,
If sad and merry madness equal be.

Re-enter MARIA with MALVOLIO

MALVOLIO. Sweet lady, ho, ho.
OLIVIA. Smil'st thou?
I sent for thee upon a sad occasion.
MALVOLIO. Sad, lady? I could be sad. This does make some
obstruction in the blood, this cross-gartering; but what of that?
If it please the eye of one, it is with me as the very true
sonnet is: 'Please one and please all.'
OLIVIA. Why, how dost thou, man? What is the matter with thee?
MALVOLIO. Not black in my mind, though yellow in my legs.
OLIVIA. Wilt thou go to bed, Malvolio?
MALVOLIO. To bed? Ay, sweetheart, and I'll come to thee.
OLIVIA. God comfort thee! Why dost thou smile so, and kiss thy hand
so oft?
MARIA. How do you, Malvolio?
MALVOLIO. At your request? Yes, nightingales answer daws!
MARIA. Why appear you with this ridiculous boldness before my lady?
MALVOLIO. 'Be not afraid of greatness.' 'Twas well writ.
OLIVIA. What mean'st thou by that, Malvolio?
AIALVOLIO. 'Some are born great,'-
OLIVIA. Ha?
MALVOLIO. 'Some achieve greatness,'-
OLIVIA. What say'st thou?
MALVOLIO. 'And some have greatness thrust upon them.'
OLIVIA. Heaven restore thee!
MALVOLIO. 'Remember who commended thy yellow stockings,'-
OLIVIA. 'Thy yellow stockings?'
MALVOLIO. 'And wish'd to see thee cross-garterd.'
OLIVIA. 'Cross-garter'd?'
MALVOLIO. 'Go to, thou an made, if thou desir'st to be so';-
OLIVIA. Am I made?
MALVOLIO. 'If not, let me see thee a servant still.'
OLIVIA. Why, this is very midsummer madness.

OLIVIA. Good Maria, Where's my cousin Toby? Let some of my
people have a special care of him.
Exeunt OLIVIA and MARIA

Compere 2. Love , Love, Love! Many sonnets are dedicated to Love! Let us listen to one of them! Our students like sonnet 130 best of all!

Pupil 4. Sonnet 130

 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
 Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
 If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
 If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
 I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
 But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
 And in some perfumes is there more delight
 Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
 I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
 That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
 I grant I never saw a goddess go;
 My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
 And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
 As any she belied with false compare.

Перевод 130 сонета по желанию.

Compere 1. We can speak about Shakespeare more and more… Let us meet again!
May be some of you would like to recite other sonnets? Do not be shy! Go ahead!

Pupils recite the sonnets in English and Russian.(66 и 18)

Teacher 2. Shakespeare is not a dead poet who lived long ago, but a breathing spirit thrusting himself into our everyday lives. In all countries of the world, in all languages, Shakespeare continues to speak profoundly to mankind. It was Shakespeare who put into words, in dramatized form, the feelings, hopes, fears, frustrations and triumphs of people.
(slide) Second sitting of our literary club is over. Let us meet next time next school year. Thanks to everybody.
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