shakespeare help

[thepopularone]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 4:28pm

what scenes from what shakespeare plays have a scene thatw oudl represent the theme of a "school boy"?

can't use romeo and juliet

[etoile]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 5:39pm

Perhaps I'm misreading the question but I don't think "school boy" is a theme.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 5:43pm

Yes, I'm also very confused by the question.

Are you asking what prominent Shakespearean characters were "schoolboys" or students or juvenile characters?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 7:55pm

I have a strong background in Shakespeare and am more than willing to help. However, like the others, I don't really understand what the task is.

[roquat]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 9:26pm

I think the most obvious would be the scene in the beginning of "Hamlet" when Polonious sends his son Laertes off to school, giving him a long speech full of platitudes about how to comport himself ("neither a borrower nor a lender be", "To thine own self be true") A less obvious one might be the Lady Macduff scene in "Macbeth" when Lady Macduff has a playful, yet melancholy discourse with her son just before the two of them are murdered. She is full of sorrow about her departed husband; he tries to cheer her up by taking what she says literally and acting obtuse.

[thepopularone]

Posted: 11/15/05 at 5:07pm

sorry, what is going on is that in my school, we r performing in this festival, and our theme is cycles of life, and for each cycle we find a scene from shakespeare to perform, the scene that I'm looking for is some scene from shakespeare that has to do with the theme of "school boy", perhaps learning something in someone's youth. Sorry for not being clear about my question.