Western
Literature week 5
Percy Jackson
Perseus "Percy" Jackson is
a fictional character, the title character and narrator of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He is also one of seven main protagonists of the sequel series The Heroes of Olympus, appearing in
every book except The Lost Hero, and appears in the ongoing Trials of Apollo series, making him one of the few characters to appear in all three series of the Camp Half-Blood chronicles. He has also
been a narrator and protagonist in Riordan's
Greco-Roman/Egyptian crossover stories, part of the Demigods and Magicians collection. The character serves as
the narrator in Percy Jackson's Greek Gods and Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes, also by
Rick Riordan.
Percy Jackson is played by Logan Lerman in the film adaptations of the novels.
Orléans
Orléans
is a city in north-central France, about 111 kilometers
(69 mi) southwest of Paris. It is the
capital of the Loiret department and of the Centre-Val de Loire region.
Orléans is located on the Loire River where the river curves south towards
the Massif Central.
New Orleans (in
French, La Nouvelle-Orléans),
in Louisiana, United States, is named after the city.
New Orleans
New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The population of the city was 343,829 as of the 2010 U.S. Census.The New Orleans metropolitan area (New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner
Metropolitan Statistical Area) had a population of 1,167,764 in 2010 and
was the 46th largest in the United States. The New
Orleans–Metairie–Bogalusa Combined Statistical Area, a larger trading area, had a 2010 population of
1,452,502.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was
an English poet, playwright, and actor,
widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English
language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He
is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154
sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain
authorship. His
plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other
playwright.
Shakespeare
produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613.His early plays were primarily comedies and histories, and these are regarded as some of the best work
ever produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the
English language. In his
last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.
Shakespeare's
Sonnets
Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a
collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such
as the passage of time, love,
beauty and mortality. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young
man; the last 28 to a woman.
The sonnets were first published in a 1609 quarto with the full stylized title: SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS. Never before
Imprinted. (although sonnets 138 and 144 had previously been published in the
1599 miscellany The Passionate Pilgrim). The quarto ends
with "A Lover's Complaint", a narrative poem of 47
seven-line stanzas written in rhyme royal – though some scholars have argued
convincingly against Shakespeare's authorship of the poem.
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