Discussion topic
think about the experiences you've had with dramatic texts, including seeing live performances or film adaptations. how does the era in which a play was written affect your ability to enjoy it or understand it? how is it different to read or see a play written more than two millennia ago (such as tragedies and comedies from ancient greece) compared to a few centuries ago (for example, shakespeare or others from the renaissance) or one produced in the last 100 years?
is there something like a modern sensibility to more recently written dramatic works that you connect better to them than to works from past centuries? are there traits in older forms of drama that engage you because they are not modern? describe the traits of drama that keep you engaged as well as characteristics that make it challenging to do so.

Read the excerpt from "a modest proposal." the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown. which statement effectively uses a quotation to show that swift claims that the poor will also benefit from his proposal? “swift writes that poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress.” swift writes that poorer tenants will finally have something to pay their landlord’s rent since they have neither money nor trade. swift writes that poorer tenants will have something to trade for rent since “their corn and cattle” have already been seized. swift writes that “poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own” that can “ to pay their landlord’s rent.”

How does douglass contrast his childhood on colonel lloyd’s plantation with this arrival on baltimore at the auld’s?

What is included in the body of a business letter ?