Description

In an English 12 class in the Byng Arts program, we worked on a creative and stylistic analysis of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Students focused on a selected topic, such as the multiple roles that make up Hamlet's persona; the portrayal of women in the play; or the use of disease imagery. They then designed and produced a work in an artistic mode -- such as visual, musical, dramatic, or filmic -- that responded to the focus topic question.

Students then wrote an essay to explain how their aesthetic design choices reflected elements of Shakespeare's text, such as figurative and sound devices, imagery, tone, or conflict. Essentially, students created a literary close reading in a non-textual aesthetic mode.

Included in the gallery are examples of students' work in progress (close reading analyses, drafts, sketches) as well as some of their final essays explaining the interpretation and analysis informing their projects.