Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)- American author best known for writing Little Women (1871), based on the Alcott home. She grew up in a Transcendentalist home and around authors such as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Alcott was a suffragist, abolitionist, and feminist.
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1. Continue watching An Iliad.
To consider in today's viewing:
- What is the toll of telling the story of war, rage, hate on the poet? What does O'Hare do to demonstrate this toll?
- How does the portrayal of Agamemnon, Achilles, etc. compare to your reading of these characters in The Iliad?
- What do you notice about the theatrical presentation? The costuming?The lighting? The set? The music? How is it all complementary to the story that the Poet is telling?
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