Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard. (Unless you have one that you think you can knock out the park).Here are the given instructions :Assignment Sheet: Play or Poem Collection ReviewYour taskfor 25 percent of your grade–is to write an article that promotes the reading of a particular play or poetry collection. Once you have chosen and read the work, you can then choose among a number of strategies for evaluating the work listed here, or you can use criteria of your own that you can persuade the audience are important.About 30 percent of the essay should be concerned with description of the contents of the book (but do not ruin moments of suspense; no spoilers). Your description would need to be entertaining in itself, reflecting your view of what the work does well, what its ideas might be.By no means would your description be plot summary only. Plays and poetry collections can be described by their themes, by their historic context (what was going on during the time it was written and published), by the way other critics reacted to them, by their use of certain poetic or dramatic elements.The other 70 percent, the rest, should be thought of as an evaluative section. Writers in review publications have used a number of strategies to consider literary works over the years, including the following:The relevance of the ideas expressed or explored in the work to present-day life.
The way the response to the work in the past or today is revealing about those responding.
The relationship between the work and the author’s life.
The way the work has been an influence on culture or on other artists.
A focus on particularly ingenious or insightful choices made by the writer.
The relationship between a work and a film or performance of that work.
A determination of whether early (or recent) critics of the work were correct.
Cautionary note: remember that your essay is aspiring to be a unified argument. The essay should never read like a connect-the-dots exercise in summarizing and then rating the work thumbs up or thumbs down. You are trying to promote the reading of a work you have chosen because you know it will be well done, but don’t neglect to mention its flaws, especially if these are revealing.Source citations: Cite sources using MLA 2016 style. For information about this citation style, please see Purdue Owls material on the subject. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Purdue Owl also has a helpful section on writing book reviews (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..On how to find works for this assignment: For poetry collections, youll want to avoid reviewing large Collected or Complete Poems volumes released at the ends of poets careers, but instead focus on the shorter books that are released during the poets lifetimes. Many times for modern poets, you can find these slim volumes in the library or order them on line. They are often mentioned in the introductory biographical essays in Poetry: A Pocket Anthology.For plays, you can look for titles of plays you might want to read in Norton Anthology of Dramas introductory essays. For contemporary plays, you might consider choosing a play mentioned in this recent New York Times article (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
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