Those of you who enjoy watching all the beautiful programmes the BBC has to offer and who are in the possesion of either an Ipad or an IPhone. The BBC has made aan app available which gives us the opportunity to watch them whenever and where ever we like.

If you're interrested, check the link below.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bbc-iplayer/id416580485?mt=8

Love, Marit

Hi there, i can't seem to find where we have the trainingsession this week... Where o where?

He Marijn, no trainingsessions the comming week. The 4 masterclassess are in Zaandam, Muz Theater.

Those of you who crave 24/7 access to info on the meaning of the words in Shakespeare might want to procure the comprehensive (but heavy and bulky) volume "Shakespeare's Words". Not an item to carry around with you all day (676 pages) but quite illuminating and entertaining.
Only E 17,99 at Bol.com!
Check https://www.bol.com/nl/p/engelse-boeken/shakespeare-s-words/1001004001876581/index.html
They also have books on pronunciation, but I can't yet vouch for their usefulness, having not yet had a closer look.
Keep those tennis balls flying!
Bart

And yet another way of looking at meaning would be to look at the text 'as it could have read' in modern day English.
Sparknotes produces a series of books called 'No Fear Shakespeare'. Those books consist of the original text and a modern version, helpfully arranged side-by-side. The modern translation has no real literary ambition, and is not word-for-word, but it is sentence-by-sentence and can be very helpful to quickly get an idea of what is going on. The books are quite cheap (all around 6 euros), but acquiring the complete works can of course still be a daunting enterprise (even though not all plays are available in this manner).

The good news is that all the books are also available online. Go to https://nfs.sparknotes.com/ and you'll see a list of all available plays. After clicking on one, you can dig down deeper to find the section you want by clicking on Act and Scene numbers. Long scenes (e.g. Shrew II-1, which takes up an entire Act) can be browsed through using the pup-up menu on top of the page.
Happy learnings!
Bart

About the meaning of words. We will devote our 2nd training session to understanding the meaning of words with an exercise. This was tim's suggestion as it is important we all know what it's about. Ps yes shakespeare's words, love it!

I just checked the meaning of the words of sonnet 33 on sparknotes, cause I didn't understand one of the lines - it really helped!
thanks, Bart!

and about pronunciation - there is a lot of Shakespeare speeches spoken on YouTube.
probably not all the dialogue but I think most big speeches are there and also the sonnets, at least the one I'm working on and also my speech for next time...

Shakespeare's words by Ben and David Crystal is available online here:
https://www.shakespeareswords.com

A lot easier than carrying around the book or even buying, though I suggest you do for all the extra information in there.

I like this blog! And the whole traject!!

Have a question though - I finally discovered the second syllable-thing,
speak and then catch the ball on the 2nd syllable, but when is the right moment to throw it? the last word? the last syllable?
And with your example, Amber, you write ' so and WHY' and why is the moment to catch, but why not AND?
Can somebody enlighten me ;-)

He Maud, You throw on the last stressed syllable, and you catch on the first stressed syllable. As in
and ONE and TWO and THREE and FOUR and FIVE
(the and is unstressed, the one, two etc are stressed) Does this help in any way?
Amber