Creative Adaptation PaperOur ideas of adaptation are very similar to eighteenth-century notions of imitation (or mimesis). Both activities update the point of an earlier work for a new audience during a different historical moment. Creativity?or innovating within the boundaries of the original?therefore involves adapting or imitating a classic to address a new world or era. Choose one (1) of the following assignments and submit it on 30 September:A. Casting The Critic (2014 edition): You have been hired by a studio to write, cast, and produce a film-adaptation of Sheridan?s 1779 afterpiece The Critic that will convey Sheridan?s main points but in twenty-first-century terms and references. Given this afterpiece?s goal to place the critic on-stage and examine how critics gain authority, create a 4-page paper in which you not only reveal your casting decisions as to the twenty-first-century actors who will play Sheridan?s characters, but also defend your casting choices.On your first page, list Sheridan?s Dramatis Personae [p. 6] but now paired with your choice of twenty-first-century actors. The biggest change you will have to make here is to change the tragedy of The Spanish Armada and its list of characters to something that 2013 audiences would understand. What might be a twenty-first-century version of this fictional, tragic play?On pages 2 through 4, first present the thesis that guided all of your casting decisions. That is, what overarching goal of your filmed adaption of this dramatic afterpiece guided all of your casting decisions? For the remainder of the paper, defend your casting decisions for each of the following characters (each given at least a paragraph) and tell us how they will help audiences in 2013 access the point of your film: Dangle, Sneer, Sir Fretful Plagiary, Puff, Mrs. Dangle, and one (1) of your characters from whatever object you chose to replace/adapt The Spanish Armada.B. The Vanity of Higher Education: Lines 135-174 of Johnson?s The Vanity of Human Wishes imitates/adapts Juvenile?s Satire X and targets the unreasonable optimism of people who believe that more education inevitably and automatically leads to more happiness. Your task is to adapt these lines of Johnson?s poem for a 2013 audience to convey much of his original goal within these lines. To complete this adaption, compose a 2-page paper in which your first page recasts lines 135-174 of Johnson?s poem to make them accessible to 2013 readers, their diction, their references, and their assumptions about college education. For example, if Johnson is talking about Melancholy in line154, then your line 154 should update what this word would translate into in 2013 (see the OED for its eighteenth-century connotations). Update Johnson?s proper names to proper names closer to 2013. Maintain end-rhymed couplets, but feel free to innovate within them to address 2013 students (and their parents).For an entire second page of your paper, tell us what your main goal was (your thesis) and how most of your lines (cite some specifically) demonstrate that goal. For example, point out why you rhymed some of your couplets the way you did. You might point out where your couplets? form allowed you to parallel, contradict, or relate ideas about higher education in two-lines. Are there moments where you broke the strict form of the couplets and did not exactly rhyme? Why? How do moments of Latinate syntax (concluding verbs) affect your reader? How do you think your poem?s literary devices and form affect your reader? CLICK HERE TO GET MORE ON THIS PAPER !!!CLICK HERE TOORDER THIS PAPER AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE
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