William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare
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• Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564
• Born in Stratford upon Avon
• Died on April 23, 1616

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• Parents were John Shakespeare and Mary Arden.
• William was the third child of eight, but the
  first to survive.

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• Attended school in Stratford
• May have taught there as well.

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• Married Anne Hathaway in 1582
• He was 18. She was 26 and pregnant
• They had 3 children Susanna, Judith, and Hamnet

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• Nothing known about him for eight years.
• Turned up in London in 1592
• Belonged to The Lord Chamberlains Men

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• Puritans disapproved of theater
• Queen Elizabeth was a patroness of the
  theater
• Theaters closed because of an outbreak of
  plague

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• Shakespeare joined The Kings Men
• King James I was the patron of the acting
  troupe

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Shakespeare built the Globe Theater to perform
his plays.
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Groundlings in the yard.
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The Balcony
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The Heavens
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The Galleries
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The Gentlemens Room
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The Gentlemens Room
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The Stage
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• No scenery
• No curtain
• Few props
• Elaborate costumes

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• Wrote in poetic form called iambic pentameter
  
• Often used sentence inversions
• Often combined words
• Sometimes used rhyme
• Sometimes used prose

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The Prince of Verona
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Lord and Lady Capulet
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Lord and Lady Montague
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Aside

• a short speech delivered by an actor in a play.
  Usually directed to the audience and is presumed
  to be unheard by the other actors.

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Dialogue

• conversation between characters. Meant to reveal
  characters and advance action. T

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Dramatic Irony

• a contradiction between what a character thinks
  and what the reader or audience knows to be true

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Dramatic foil

• a character that provides a contrast to another
  character.

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Round character

• Shows many different traits, faults as well as
  virtues

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Flat character

• shows only one trait

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Oxymoron

• figure of speech that combines two normally
  contradictory terms. Example Awfully pretty,
  honorable villain, beautiful tyrant,

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Soliloquy

• a long speech expressing the thoughts of a
  character alone on stage.

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Tybalt
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Romeo and Mercutio
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Mercutio
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Friar Lawrence
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Count Paris
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Benvolio
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