Analyzing and Interpreting Literature from a Christian Worldview
Take a look at these free resources on the study of Shakespeare:
Ambleside Online's Shakespeare Rotation, http://www.amblesideonline.org/ShakespeareSch.shtml
This comprehensive resource includes links to Shakespeare Sparks Notes, Shakespeare Resource Center History, Glossary, grammar and language information, Absolute Shakespeare - the essential resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre, AllShakespeare - free study guides, translations, biography notes, and The Video Shakespeare - play free videos of Shakespeare plays on Real Player.
Why Shakespeare for Christian Students? http://www.berith.org/hsres/shak/shak01.html
This scholarly yet understandable essay answers some of the critics who claim that Shakespeare "did not write as a Christian." Ralph Allen Smith answers that "...Christians will remember that he was buried in a church and that his last will names Christ as his Savior. What Shakespeare wrote while contemplating eternity, it seems to me, is a confession not to be taken lightly. Be that as it may, the worldview which informs and forms his plays is Christian. It is the realistic and complex moral worldview of the Bible. If modern, English-speaking Christians -- whose worldviews now suffer from the influence of TV and movies that are at best non-Christian and not infrequently outright anti-Christian -- have a serious interest in learning to think like Christians Shakespeare is a nearly indispensable source."
Mr. William Shakespeare, http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/ includes:
A Shakespeare Timeline, which gives the key events of Shakespeare's life and work along with related documentary evidence, A Shakespeare genealogy, A chart showing the relevant family relationships and dates, A Shakespeare Timeline Summary Chart, showing the events of Shakespeare's life in outline along with important contemporary events and publications, A Shakespeare Biography Quiz, The Shakespeare Canon, Rowe's Some Acount of the Life &c. of Mr. William Shakespeare, prefaced to his 1709 edition of the Works, Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare, The Prefatory materials from the First Folio.
Finally, check out the free Study Guide for Macbeth, from BJU
http://bjupress.com/services/bjhomesat/pdf/handouts/macbeth.pdf
Ambleside Online's Shakespeare Rotation, http://www.amblesideonline.org/ShakespeareSch.shtml
This comprehensive resource includes links to Shakespeare Sparks Notes, Shakespeare Resource Center History, Glossary, grammar and language information, Absolute Shakespeare - the essential resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre, AllShakespeare - free study guides, translations, biography notes, and The Video Shakespeare - play free videos of Shakespeare plays on Real Player.
Why Shakespeare for Christian Students? http://www.berith.org/hsres/shak/shak01.html
This scholarly yet understandable essay answers some of the critics who claim that Shakespeare "did not write as a Christian." Ralph Allen Smith answers that "...Christians will remember that he was buried in a church and that his last will names Christ as his Savior. What Shakespeare wrote while contemplating eternity, it seems to me, is a confession not to be taken lightly. Be that as it may, the worldview which informs and forms his plays is Christian. It is the realistic and complex moral worldview of the Bible. If modern, English-speaking Christians -- whose worldviews now suffer from the influence of TV and movies that are at best non-Christian and not infrequently outright anti-Christian -- have a serious interest in learning to think like Christians Shakespeare is a nearly indispensable source."
Mr. William Shakespeare, http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/ includes:
A Shakespeare Timeline, which gives the key events of Shakespeare's life and work along with related documentary evidence, A Shakespeare genealogy, A chart showing the relevant family relationships and dates, A Shakespeare Timeline Summary Chart, showing the events of Shakespeare's life in outline along with important contemporary events and publications, A Shakespeare Biography Quiz, The Shakespeare Canon, Rowe's Some Acount of the Life &c. of Mr. William Shakespeare, prefaced to his 1709 edition of the Works, Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare, The Prefatory materials from the First Folio.
Finally, check out the free Study Guide for Macbeth, from BJU
http://bjupress.com/services/bjhomesat/pdf/handouts/macbeth.pdf
posted by Melissa Morgan, eaglesnesthome.com @ Thursday, February 22, 2007
2 Comments:
At 11:06 AM,
Anonymous said…
New to your blog, but it is an interesting and infomrative resourse. Have you read Henry Jenkins *Convergence Culture*? An interesting overiew of the discernment movement and Christian education using popular media.
FYI...the colors and formatting on your blog make it very hard to read. They are so low contrast and discordant, that it can be extremely discouraging. Would you consider changing the color scheme and not copying and pasting from Word (or whatever procedure you use that screws up the formatting). Thanks
CS
At 12:09 PM,
Melissa Morgan, eaglesnesthome.com said…
Thanks for your great comments. .I have not read *Convergence Culture,* but it appears to contain useful insights that might help with marketing and understanding media. I checked out the book at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jenkins and also read some online reviews. I notice that it is Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award. Henry Jenkins is the Director of MIT's Comparative Media Studies Program. If anyone wants to read further, here is the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (C3), http://www.convergenceculture.org/aboutc3/.
I apologize for the colors and formatting problems. I use a Template provided by Blogger, called Thisaway (Blue). My html skills are pretty rudimentary, and if I start fooling with it, it might make things worse. If you don't mind, could you please tell me what browser you are using? It might help to know that, as the formatting appears okay in Internet Explorer. I definitely want to make it readable for everyone. I do work in Word and then post into the Blog; I'll do the next post in notepad (text) and post. Also, this comment is being prepared in Notepad, not Word. If you can, please visit and see if this makes any difference. Thanks for reading, and for your insights.
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