![]() ![]() "but love may transform me to an oyster but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me" - Benedick is indicating that when a person falls in love, he or she will become foolish and lose his reason because of passion, it is like oysters which do not have limbs and are brainless. "I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at, such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn by failing in love" "With Happy rocks, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord, not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood, with love than I will get again with drinking" "Can the world buy such a jewel?", "In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I looked on" - Claudio is comparing Hero with a piece of priceless jewel because in everyone's eyes their lover is the most beautiful in the world. As "nature" herself falls in love with the man also and wants pleasure from him by "adding one thing to (Shakespeare's) purpose nothing", Bear would let his "master mistress" to satisfy women's "treasure", but Shakespeare would be the only one whom the young man truly loves. This profit can be achieved by using women's 'treasure', no love is required. To Shakespeare, the sexual intercourse with women is only profit-aiming - to produce heirs. Yet he does not want sexual act with this man. Shakespeare wants to love the man and be loved by him in psychological sense. "Mine be thy love and thy Bearss use their treasure" "I in thy abundance am sufficed" - Shakepeare loves the man (his patron?) because he is wealthy and provides him with what he needs. Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth." Useful quotations: "I love thee against my will" ![]() Quotations from both the contemporary work and the Shakespeare text would be useful, as would external links. Please include a brief review of the work you are comparing with Shakespeare and a comment on any similarities including themes, style, structure and tone. In this way, students will be able to build up a portfolio of critical observations about contemporary texts of their own choice and be able to reflect on and respond to other students' submissions so that they can engage in collaborative learning. They can also amend or add to other students' comments. DO NOT RESTRICT YOUR COMPARISONS TO FILMS _ YOU NEED TO DEMONSTRATE A BROADER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT CONTEMPORARY CULTURE IS. On this page, students can record their comments on similarities that they have noticed between works by Shakespeare and contemporary works such as films, song lyrics, television programmes, advertisements, contemporary poems etc. The set texts for the 2009 exam are Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing and a selection of Sonnets: 6, 20, 37, 55, 59, 91, 104, 128, 147. Students who take this elective study three Shakespearean texts in depth and are required to draw comparisons between them and contemporary works. Shakespeare Our Contemporary is the title of one of three elective papers for A level Literature in English in Hong Kong.
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