Film Studies Daily Log

Friday, September 2
We took a step back from our discussion of the antique aspects of Shakespeare's English to get a quick overview of the history of the English language as a whole, looking at parallel translations of the same text (Matthew 6:9) from four periods: Old English, Middle English (Wycliffe), Early Modern English (King James Version),and Late Modern English.

HW due Tuesday:
Complete the FEW exercise by finding and printing out lines from Hamlet using all of your 25 assigned words which appear in the play. (See Documents page of the class website, room301.org.)