While reading Twelfth Night, you may have wondered what the play would be like if William Shakespeare had lived in the present day. Well, now is your chance to find out!
In this assignment, you will rewrite a scene from Twelfth Night—presenting it either in prose (paragraph) form or as a play—and setting the action in today’s world. Thus, your piece should have a modern feel to it, while also staying true to the basic details of Shakespeare’s original. It should also
• Follow a familiar narrative structure, with a strong beginning, an interesting middle, and a logical conclusion.
• Include precise words and phrases, descriptive details, or sensory language to convey experiences or events.
• Depict characters in interesting and inventive ways.
• Contain dialogue, description, and pacing which helps develop characters effectively.
• Use transition words, phrases, or clauses to convey the sequence of events and to signal changes from one time frame or setting to another.
• Follow the rules of spelling, grammar, usage, and mechanics.