EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY!! (50 extra homework points) 

 

Attend a performance of Julius Caesar at Clackamas High School, and see another of Shakespeare's tragedies!

1. Take a picture of yourself in front of the  stage set up in the theater (not during the performance of course!) 

2. Write 1/2 to one page about what you thought of the play and the performance. What did you like about it? What were the most interesting parts? What were the costumes, props, stage decorations like? How were the actors? Tell me all about it! 

 

 Polanski's portrayal of the old witch is a direct reference to the blind clairvoyant prophet of Apollo, who appears in such famous works as Homer's The Odyssey and the plays of Sophocles. (If you read Antigone last year, you might recognize the name!) According to Robert Graves, the author of The Greek Myths, "Tiresias" was a common name for soothsayers throughout Greek legendary history. Polanski's vision of the eldest witch shows the inspiration of Greek drama with her obvious blindness and mask-like visage. Tiresias is famous for turning into a woman for seven years, so the allusion makes further sense as an artistic decision by the director.