{"id":33,"date":"2016-04-03T02:57:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T02:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2016-04-03T02:57:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T02:57:16","slug":"first-essay-assignment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/assignments\/first-essay-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"First Essay Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this assignment, your job is to develop a five-page essay that weaves together multiple sources \u2013 not exclusively plays, but also poetry, peer-reviewed articles, songs, books, images, your own understanding \u2013 to give a comprehensive sense of the elements that comprise the Celtic Revival\/Celtic Twilight in the Irish expressive arts.<\/p>\n<p>Before you begin this assignment, consider the following questions. You do not have to answer all of them, but they are an excellent starting point.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What does \u201crevival\u201d mean (without directly citing a dictionary, please)?<\/li>\n<li>What does \u201ctwilight\u201d mean (without directly citing a dictionary, please)?<\/li>\n<li>How are the <em>plays, especially,<\/em> most effective in conveying this sensibility?<\/li>\n<li>Who was participating in the Celtic Revival\/Celtic Twilight? What was their context (class, gender, religious orientation, education, location)?<\/li>\n<li>Why would Irish playwrights, poets, and others consider a revival of anything when Ireland was on the brink of Independence?<\/li>\n<li>Why are the arts (performing, visual, literary) important in a revolution?<\/li>\n<li>What does this movement say about Irish identity at the time?<\/li>\n<li>What roles do religion, language, land, and colonialism play?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Checklist:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>All of your expressive (visual, literary, musical, dramatic) examples must be from before 1920, but articles, books, and films may be more contemporary.<\/li>\n<li>All of your expressive (visual, literary, musical, dramatic) examples must be made by Irish people, but articles, books, and films may be by others.<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least two poems<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least one song<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least one film<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least three plays<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least one presentation by Walter, and one presentation by Sean<\/li>\n<li>Cite at least one peer-reviewed article (<em>not<\/em> Wikipedia)<\/li>\n<li>Use one photograph (embed in your essay)<\/li>\n<li>Use one painting (embed in your essay)<\/li>\n<li>Include your own ideas<\/li>\n<li>Include an introduction with a thesis statement, and a conclusion<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this assignment, your job is to develop a five-page essay that weaves together multiple sources \u2013 not exclusively plays, but also poetry, peer-reviewed articles, songs, books, images, your own understanding \u2013 to give a comprehensive sense of the elements&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/assignments\/first-essay-assignment\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/irishdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}