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Imprints 12
Web Links
Drama
Choose a cluster:
Václav
Havel
This Web site provides a profile of the former president of the Czech
republic (and renowned playwright), who is quoted on the opening page
of the Drama section of Imprints 12.
Life and Death
Duel TV comedy sketch by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie
- Helen
Hayes
A quotation from Helen Hayes appears in a quote box on the last page
of "Duel." This Web site provides a biography, bibliography,
and many links to material about the career of the "First Lady
of the American theatre."
That's Extraordinary! radio play by Diana Raznovich
- Robin
Holtom
A painting by Robin Holtom appears within "That's Extraordinary!"
Students can view other works by the artist on this Web site. Note that
some of the paintings are of nudes. Ask students to choose one other
painting from this site that they might have chosen to accompany the
play. They should explain why.
- Reality
TV
This Web site provides a short history of reality TV, plus links to
particular shows and TV terms.
- Reality
Blurred
The blurring of reality through reality TV is explored in a web log
and a journal. Discuss whether students think the web log is authentic
or a marketing ploy.
- Radio
Play
This BBC Web site gives tips on how to write a radio play, with links
to material on dialogue, character, and structure. It provides links
to other radio sites, including a CBC site.
- Challenge students to create a one-act radio play, based on these
tips.
- Peggy
Noonan
A quotation from Noonan appears in a quote box on the sixth page "That's
Extraordinary!" Noonan, a speechwriter for U.S. President Ronald
Reagan and George Bush, senior, can be investigated on this personal
Web site.
The Dashwoods' Fate Is Decided movie script by Emma Thompson
- Sense
and Sensibility Diaries
A review by Toronto columnist Heather Mallick of Thompson's published
screenplay and diary, from which "The Dashwoods' Fate Is Decided"
was excerpted, is on this Web site.
- Ask students to discuss why readers might enjoy reading the screenplay
of a book, or if readers should just "read the book" as
Mallick suggests.
- Jane
Austen
Jane Austen is quoted on the sixth page of the selection in Imprints
12. This Web Site has every conceivable link to Austen's works
and biography. Students can read most of her work through links on this
site.
Love and Hate
The Raft: An Interlude burlesque act by Stephen Leacock
- Stephen
Leacock
This National Library of Canada Web site has an audio sample of Leacock
reading his famous story "My Financial Career," as well as
information about his life and wide-ranging works. There are links to
other Leacock Web sites, such as a museum and a building named after
him.
- Encourage students to choose one piece of Leacock's writing and
dramatize a reading in role as Leacock.
- Leacock's
Poetry
This Web site has two of Leacock's poems. Ask students to read the poems
and compare their humour, content, and language with other works by
Leacock.
- Friedrich
von Schlegel
Writer and philosopher von Schlegel is quoted on the third page of "The
Raft." This Web site has links to his better-known contemporaries,
as well as a bibliography.
Introducing Cyrano dialogue by Edmond Rostand
- Edmond
Rostand
This Web site provides links to Cyrano, Molière, and more. Ask
students to read the article on this Web page, and discuss what they
author is saying about Cyrano and Rostand.
- Small groups can then explore the other links on this Web site
and discuss why the site might be structured this way. What audience
is it intended for? What is its purpose?
- Cyrano
de Bergerac
This is an on-line edition of the play. Challenge interested students
to read the play and choose one scene to perform.
- More
Cyrano
This Web site provides a full synopsis of the play, and links to the
biography of Rostand. Ask students to plan or create a similar Web site
for another full-length play the class has studied.
- Cyrano
on Film
On this Web site, Roger Ebert reviews two films based on Cyrano
.
- As a class, view Roxanne; discuss whether the hero of
Roxanne is true to the impression they have of Cyrano's
character from the excerpt. Discuss other such remakes or modern
retellings of classic stories.
Venus Sucked In radio play by Anne Chislett
- Anne
Chislett
This Web site provides brief information on the storyteller and her
works. Discuss any questions the students would like to ask the author.
- Quiet
in the Land
This Web site provides a review of Chislett's most successful play,
Quiet in the Land. Ask students to use this review as a model
as they write a review of "Venus Sucked In."
- Venus
Rising
This Web site contains a description and explanation of the Botticelli
painting.
- Ask students to research other Web sites on the painting under
its actual title, "The Birth of Venus."
- Multimedia
Venus
This Web site contains a downloadable movie of a multimedia opera inspired
by the painting; its content may be too mature for some students.
- Animal
Venus
The artist on this Web site gives the classic Botticelli painting a
whimsical treatment. Discuss this parody as a class.
- Mary
Pickford
Pickford is quoted on the tenth page of the selection in Imprints
12. This Web site has links to other pages on "America's Sweetheart."
Click on the "Geocities" link for a refreshing "first-person"
biography of Pickford.
Creativity and Invention
Tom King's Traditional Aboriginal Decorating Tips
radio comedy sketch by Tom King from The Dead Dog Café
- Thomas
King
This site provides brief biographical information on Tom King. Discuss
what students already know about the author, what they would like to
find out, and where they might look for information.
- Dead
Dog Café
This Web site includes a description of the show, with selections from
CBC's audio catalogue. Listen to several of the skits, and then discuss
the challenge these skits would pose to an actor.
Galileo: The Starry Messenger stage play by Lindsay Price
- Galileo
Students can visit this virtual museum for Galileo to view a portrait
of Galileo with one of his apprentices, as well as examining some of
his inventions.
- Cosimo
de Medici
Galileo's patron, referred to in the play, is given a full page biography
in this Web site. Other chapters tell the story of the rest of the Medici
family of Florence.
- Nicholas
Copernicus
This Web site, originating from Cambridge University, provides a brief
and readable account of Copernicus's life and theory. Part of an electronic
history of astronomy, this site has a great many links to other figures
and theories, plus bibliographies and some graphics.
- Sarah
Bernhardt
Bernhardt is quoted on the seventh page of the selection in Imprints
12. This is a Web site with a wealth of links to her life story,
bibliography, films about her, and other subjects that touch on her
life.
- Alfred
Hitchcock
Hitchcock is quoted on the twelfth page of the selection. This Web site
provides links to a filmography, quotations, bibliography, and so on.
What Will Your Verse Be? movie monologue by Tom Schulman
from Dead Poets Society
- Monologues
This Web site provides a collection of comic and dramatic monologues
from the classics. Students can select one to perform for the class.
- Hollywood
Monologues
This personal Web site is so up-to-date that it has Bill the Butcher's
monologue from Gangs of New York, a monologue so bloodthirsty
that many students may relish the opportunity to deliver it to the class.
Gentler monologues also exist on this site.
- What
Are Monologues?
Students can visit this Web site to read a brief, screenwriter's definition
of the monologue, with links to explanations of other playwriting terms.
Ask students to review some of these terms and discuss any they are
still unsure of.
- Monologue
vs. Soliloquy
This Web site gives a brief description of the differences between monologue,
soliloquy, dramatic monologue, and interior monologue.
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