leer
/lir/
verb
gerund or present participle: leering
Not really, but the title seemed clever until I actually looked up what leer meant.
As you may have guessed, we spent the majority of this week watching our Shakespeare plays. My group decided to watch King Lear, and focus on the feminist aspects shown throughout the play. That's what our "critical lens" was, Feminism and Cultural Studies. Despite having a certain criteria that we were supposed to be focused in on, I had a really difficult time understanding the play. Generally, it takes me a bit to get used to their speech, but I struggled throughout the entire play. I will need to read the No Fear Shakespeare version over break, I think.
It definitely helped that we watched a few over views of King Lear before we watched the actual play. If I thought I was lost WITH that background knowledge, I don't want to know how much I would have struggled without it. It amazes me that all the information you would ever need for anything EVER is at our fingertips. Not even our fingertips anymore. I'm sure Siri or something like it could google whatever you wanted her to, hands free. That's just so crazy to me.
I think we have a lot of content to work with though, and it will be interesting to see where our group takes this project within the set parameters. Yeah, we have to talk about feminism and stuff, but even that's a pretty broad topic within itself. I wonder if we'll keep it general or pinpoint one aspect.
I can see us getting really into it, which I hope will happen, and picking apart each sister as well as some of the other kings' men, and showing how they are or are not feminists in this story, or I can see us taking the story as a whole and saying why it is or isn't feminist. I assume we'll do some variation of my first idea, because it's more on point with the actual assignment, but who knows? Not me. At least not right now.
/lir/
verb
gerund or present participle: leering
- look or gaze in an unpleasant, malicious, or lascivious way.
Not really, but the title seemed clever until I actually looked up what leer meant.
As you may have guessed, we spent the majority of this week watching our Shakespeare plays. My group decided to watch King Lear, and focus on the feminist aspects shown throughout the play. That's what our "critical lens" was, Feminism and Cultural Studies. Despite having a certain criteria that we were supposed to be focused in on, I had a really difficult time understanding the play. Generally, it takes me a bit to get used to their speech, but I struggled throughout the entire play. I will need to read the No Fear Shakespeare version over break, I think.
It definitely helped that we watched a few over views of King Lear before we watched the actual play. If I thought I was lost WITH that background knowledge, I don't want to know how much I would have struggled without it. It amazes me that all the information you would ever need for anything EVER is at our fingertips. Not even our fingertips anymore. I'm sure Siri or something like it could google whatever you wanted her to, hands free. That's just so crazy to me.
I think we have a lot of content to work with though, and it will be interesting to see where our group takes this project within the set parameters. Yeah, we have to talk about feminism and stuff, but even that's a pretty broad topic within itself. I wonder if we'll keep it general or pinpoint one aspect.
I can see us getting really into it, which I hope will happen, and picking apart each sister as well as some of the other kings' men, and showing how they are or are not feminists in this story, or I can see us taking the story as a whole and saying why it is or isn't feminist. I assume we'll do some variation of my first idea, because it's more on point with the actual assignment, but who knows? Not me. At least not right now.