IN the weeks to come, The Star’s Newspaper-in-Education (Star-NiE) programme will present a collection of stories donated by The Straits Times newspaper of Singapore for use by teachers and students in the classroom.
The stories chosen are classis legends, myths, fables and folklore from around the world rewritten as modern news or feature stories. Young readers and adults will enjoy reading the likes of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Hamlet, and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein in a modern news format.
But these stories are not just good yarns. They touch the soul, nourish the mind, and give readers a better sense of their place in the world. By studying the plots and characters, readers can make the stories a part of their lives.The tale behind the story The stories that Shahrazad (also spelt “Scheherazade”) told the Sultan to avoid being executed make up a collection of tales known as The Arabian Nights, or The Book Of One Thousand And One Nights.It is believed that they
IN the weeks to come, The Star’s Newspaper-in-Education (Star-NiE) programme will present a collection of stories donated by The Straits Times newspaper of Singapore for use by teachers and students in the classroom.
The stories chosen are classis legends, myths, fables and folklore from around the world rewritten as modern news or feature stories. Young readers and adults will enjoy reading the likes of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Hamlet, and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein in a modern news format. But these stories are not just good yarns.
They touch the soul, nourish the mind, and give readers a better sense of their place in the world. By studying the plots and characters, readers can make the stories a part of their lives.The tale behind
Barbara Field, a queen of adaptations and champion of playwrights, dies at 87 Writer of Guthrie s A Christmas Carol also launched the Playwrights Center, where she mentored many. February 23, 2021 7:57pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Playwright Barbara Field s stage adaptation of A Christmas Carol was seen by millions during its 35-year run at the Guthrie Theater, introducing many to the power of theater with a transformative ghost story.
But her most enduring legacy might be less dramatic. While she was a graduate student at the University of Minnesota in 1971, Field and a clutch of other students acted on the advice of theater professor Charles Nolte and created the Playwrights Center, which has helped generations of writers from August Wilson and Lee Blessing to Melanie Marnich and Christina Ham find their voice.
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2018 marks the two hundredth anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a pioneering novel that draws our attention to the ethical complexities of technology and humanity. This novel has also inspired innumerable film adaptations that reshape and revisit issues at stake in the novel. This recent video addressing the impact of these adaptations is useful for considering the impact of these ideas and is a great example of the type of format that you might take on in your final projects this term, though your projects will be on a smaller scale.
Laura Mulvey argued that films depict women through the male gaze. How is this or is this not present in the film? Select one moment on which to focus. How is this made more complex by the fact that the novel the film adapts is by a female writer?