#comp ii

entire class: *crickets*

6 plays total, a report for each on anything we want, & a final report overall

Antigone: i thought antigone was really good! it’s a greek classic by sophocles about a woman & i was just really into it. I wrote my report about mourning rituals of the time & the politics surrounding them & how it all related to religion & misogyny - 92%.

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside: literally unbearable. i read half of this play, the way it was written (both the early modern english & the amount of characters and plot) made it difficult to follow & frankly following it wasn’t worth the effort ! i couldn’t stand to finish it and there were not sparknotes. wrote about how sex was the backbone of the play in every way, the culture & religious context it was all in, blahblah - 94%

The Servant of Two Masters: I actually liked this one too! 18th century Italian play, it was interesting to read something from that time & place and then watch a live performance (watched this one, it’s great and they made some funny adjustments) and then read a little more about what the genre was before this - all improv basically by people who mastered the archetypes. it was hard to think of an essay topic & i decided to write about how Beatrice was a lesbian who Dressed As A Man as personal preference, i used textual evidence - 96%

Night of the Living Dead Live: this one was good! it was fun and inspired some good convos about zombies and i really liked a lot of the scenarios because they explored things that horror fans really wonder about the plot and the character’s decisions. our school theatre did a production of this right after we read it in class so i got to see that and it was SO good! i knew a couple of the actors and was very proud. i went with my mom and we laughed so much. i turned in my paper late (which should’ve lost me a letter grade but didn’t!?) and wrote basically a comparison of the movie to the play, what the play did differently, why, & whether it was effective - 100%

A Tempest: A Tempest was really damn good. of course it would’ve probably been more interesting if i’d read The Tempest, because i really had no context for the play and what it was criticizing except for what i read online. but it was about colonialism and how so often the colonizer won’t just..go home and life doesn’t get to return to normal. i would be interested to read other works by Aimé Césaire since I learned some stuff about his life & what he did for my paper, i wrote about him and about colonialism - 100%

Corpus Christi: i saw Corpus Christi live when i was 17 and i loved it so so much. apparently i loved it a lot more than my gay professor but maybe the way i remembered the production i saw just made everything click, idk. i wrote about holiness & being gay & what types of people, like jesus 2000 years ago, die young in the modern day. argued it wasn’t blasphemy & had a good message and helps me connect - 98%