In teaching our first-year university students to understand what Shakespearean language is and what it does, we asked them to edit the three different early modern editions of Hamlet and then adapt ...their edits into a comics spread. Using some of the numerous graphic novel adaptations of Shakespeare and a platform that we forked from Willian Carvalho's 2012 project 'comicgen', our first-year university students create their own visual representations of Shakespearean dialogue. This article explores the early modern texts that often coalesce to form a modern edition of Hamlet, the many Shakespearean graphic novels available today, the pedagogical comics platform created for our students, and the results of our pedagogical project.
If we believe social media, newspapers, and even some of our best friends and colleagues, the war over standard usage is on. As with many wars, the opposing sides seem to be entrenched in differing ...ideological positions and many of the battles seem to take place over the most unstable, smallest bits of territory - such as the Oxford comma, singular they , or split infinitives. In this ongoing war, possessive apostrophes have attracted particularly aggressive forays. For example, when some English cities proposed removing apostrophes from street signs, various news outlets published headlines such as, ‘It's a catastrophe for the apostrophe in Britain’ ( NBC , 31 January, 2009), ‘Dropped apostrophes spark grammar war in Britain’ ( New York Times , 16 March, 2013), and ‘“It's pandering to the lowest common denominator”: Anger as Cambridge bans apostrophe from street names’ ( Daily Mail , 18 January, 2014). Explaining Birmingham's ban, one city councillor was not that much less sensational, stating that apostrophes ‘denote possessions that are no longer accurate, and are not needed’ and that ‘they confuse people. If I want to go to a restaurant, I don't want to have an A-level (high school diploma) in English to find it’ ( NBC ).
If we believe social media, newspapers, and even some of our best friends and colleagues, the war over standard usage is on. As with many wars, the opposing sides seem to be entrenched in differing ...ideological positions and many of the battles seem to take place over the most unstable, smallest bits of territory - such as the Oxford comma, singular they, or split infinitives. In this ongoing war, possessive apostrophes have attracted particularly aggressive forays. For example, when some English cities proposed removing apostrophes from street signs, various news outlets published headlines such as, ‘It's a catastrophe for the apostrophe in Britain’ (NBC, 31 January, 2009), ‘Dropped apostrophes spark grammar war in Britain’ (New York Times, 16 March, 2013), and ‘“It's pandering to the lowest common denominator”: Anger as Cambridge bans apostrophe from street names’ (Daily Mail, 18 January, 2014). Explaining Birmingham's ban, one city councillor was not that much less sensational, stating that apostrophes ‘denote possessions that are no longer accurate, and are not needed’ and that ‘they confuse people. If I want to go to a restaurant, I don't want to have an A-level (high school diploma) in English to find it’ (NBC).
Investigates errors in grammar, punctuation or spelling committed on English diagnostic tests taken in 2014-2015 by first-year students entering the Health Sciences programme at the University of ...Otago. Identifies the errors and whether the error patterns demonstrate a genuine linguistic deficit or a test-taking deficit. Delves into whether the grammatical errors demonstrated by the students have any larger implications, such as whether grammar is therefore worth spending time on for these students, or whether a lack of grammatical skill will affect their larger life goals. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
A proper respect for the integrity of social history is one thing; a willingness to sacrifice what fiction clearly reveals about changing values to the historical test of altered practices is quite ...another. Cognitive dissonance ensures that cultural attitudes and social behaviour are not always in step, especially at moments of transition. In the early modern period, for example, when romantic love was increasingly seen as the proper basis for courtship on the stage, arranged marriages were still a common social practice. It is perfectly possible that parents could side with Romeo and Juliet at the theatre, while assuming the right to choose their own children's marriage partners at home.
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