Dear tragedizers,
With less than three weeks to go before the deadline for your first assignment, I thought it might be useful to point you towards - and/or remind you of - some resources that you should find useful.
If you've missed activities for any reason, you should of course catch up with them as a matter of priority. Given the assignment task, it's particularly important to focus on the Poetics-related material from Weeks 1 and 2.
I'd also strongly recommend that you follow up the seminar activities from Week 2, i.e. reflecting on the Poetics and producing a creative synopsis. Those of you who took part in the Week 2 seminar will remember that we completed the first activity; it would be good to post your reflections to the wiki, so I can provide any further feedback as appropriate. The second activity was something that we began during the seminar, to be followed up by posting material to the creative synopsis wiki. As you'll see when you look at that page, posts receive feedback that will be very relevant to your assignment task. If you were in the Week 2 seminar, you'll have been allocated one of the five potential protagonists for comment. If you weren't, simply pick any one of the five. Whatever you contribute will be valuable practice.
I've also just added a new page at the end of the Week 3 section, with key quotations from Mark Griffith's edition of Sophocles' Antigone. Many of those quotations refer to Sophocles' inventive approach to designing his plot; they may suggest ways of adapting your own source material for tragic purposes.
Best wishes,
Adrian
