Elizabethan+Poets+and+Dramatists+Project


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Elizabethan and Jacobean Playwrights and Poets Assignment**

Pretend you're a teacher trying to make an informative website for students. Create a mini-website on this wiki which gives a variety of linked and connected information about one of the following people: Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, John Webster or Sir Philip Sidney.

There should be a main introductory page which contains basic information and navigation links. This index page can be made to appear in the "Navigation" menu on the left by giving it the tag "navigation". Your mini-site should have the following subsections:
 * Organization:**


 * 1** -**Life and Legacy** - Give the main biographical facts of your author's life, and try to find ways that we could walk in these people's footprints today - are there museums made from houses they lived in? Are there libraries or parks or statues named in their honor? Find modern pictures of houses where they lived, theaters where their plays were performed, websites of museums, maps that show places they went, etc. Consider making a separate image gallery if you find enough interesting pictures.


 * 2 -Works** (a list of 5-10 of their **most important** works [don't just copy a long list from somewhere], with short plot summaries and description of why the work was so important and, if possible, links to online versions of them from sites like [|Project Gutenberg])


 * 3 -Connections/ Relationship to Shakespeare -** Can you find any information about how this person influenced (or was influenced by) Shakespeare? Can you discover any similarities or differences between Shakespeare and your writer?


 * 4 -Sample Work and Analysis of Themes, Symbols and Style** Present an interactive (linked) analysis of a one or more interesting excerpts from a play or poem by the author (your excerpt should be at least 5 lines long). Find definitions of words you don't know, maps of countries or places mentioned, pictures of unusual objects, explanations of historical things mentioned in the poem, etc. Link to definitions, articles, paintings, etc. from at least five different websites. Here is an example of the sort of thing I'd like you to do:

//'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimbel in the wabe.//

Afterwards, explain the excerpt in your own words, and tell why it's interesting. Try to discuss the important themes, symbols and unique writing style used by the author in the piece or pieces you are analyzing. Explain how the work you're analyzing represents the author's philosophy and style.)

__**Links to Student Mini-sites:**__ Christopher Marlowe- Ahmed the super nuts .........................................................and...........................................................................Shirley :) Ben Jonson Sir Walter Raleigh - JNF&VEE AomGrace +Mika S AND C John Webster A's Kig