In your small group, decide what sort of project you would like to do. Choose from this list. If you have a different idea, consult your teacher.

1. Performance Projects

a. Choose a scene from one of the comedies to act out for the class. Make an effort to memorize most of the lines, but you may use scripts.

b. Choose a scene from one of the comedies and do a puppet show. Construct your own puppets (you may use socks, paper bags, etc.) and work from a script.

c. Do a readers' theatre production using a scene from one of the comedies.

d. Videotape (on your own time) a scene from one of the comedies. Work from a script.

2. Creative Writing Projects

a. Write a "new" Shakespeare comedy (not an entire play, just a scene.) Read it aloud to us.

b. Write the "Outduction" to Taming of the Shrew. Be sure to use Shakespeare's language.
Read it for us.

c. Rewrite the end of Much Ado About Nothing (or a different comedy) as a tragedy.

3. Art Projects

a. Do body biographies over the "warring lovers" or other stock characters from the comedies.

b. Do a comparison frame chart over all of the comedies we studied. Compare and contrast the comic elements that appeared in each.

4. Music Projects

a. perform the songs from Twelfth Night.

b. write and perform a song that would work with Taming of the Shrew or Midsummer Night's Dream.