Test Your Knowledge

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Test Your Knowledge

• Neither a________ nor a _________ be
• All the worlds a __________

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William Shakespeare

• Widely regarded as the greatest writer in English
  Literature

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Why Study Shakespeare?

• His plays, written between 1590 and 1613, have
  been in almost constant production since their
  creation.
• He deals with universal truths and conflicts in
  human nature his plays continue to draw
  audiences from all walks of life, just as they
  did in their own day.
• Shakespeare was a word-maker supreme. Not a day
  goes by that we do not speak and hear, or read
  and write his legacy.
• He made up more than 1,700 words- 8.5 of his
  written vocabulary. Reading his works is like
  reading the birth of language itself.
  Contemporary Ben Johnson said, He was not of an
  age but for all time.

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Test Your knowledge

• With bated ___________
• Break the ___________

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Why Study Shakespeare ? Cont.

• Consider the following examples of words he first
  coined
• aerial amazement assassination
• baseless bedroom bump
• countless courtship critic impartial
• dislocate dwindle exposure
• generous gloomy hurry lonely
• Invulnerable lapse dishearten laughable
• majestic monumental pious
• sneak useless auspicious frugal

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Shakespeare

• 1563-1616
• Stratford-on-Avon, England
• wrote 37 plays
• about 154 sonnets
• Sonnet- a fourteen line lyric poem with a single
  theme
• started out as an actor

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Stage Celebrity

• Actor for Lord Chamberlains Men (London theater
  co.)
• He was the principal playwright for them
• 1599gt Lord Ch. Co. built Globe Theater where most
  of Sh. Plays were performed

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Test Your Knowledge

• Come full ___________
• Too much of a good __________

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Shakespeare wrote

• Comedies
• Histories
• Tragedies

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The Theater

• Plays produced for the general public
• Roofless- open air
• No artificial lighting
• Courtyard surrounded by 3 levels of galleries

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Spectators

• Wealthy got benches
• Groundlings were poorer people that stood and
  watched from the courtyard (pit)
• All but wealthy were uneducated/illiterate
• Much more interaction than today

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Staging Areas

• Stage- platform that extended into the pit
• Dressing storage rooms were in galleries behind
  above stage
• second-level gallery (upper stage) was the
  famous balcony scene in R J
• Trap door- where ghosts appeared
• Heavens- angelic beings

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Test Your Knowledge

• Eating me out of house and _________
• A foregone ______________

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Differences

• No scenery
• Settings gt references in dialogue
• Elaborate costumes
• Plenty of props
• Fast-paced, colorfulgt2 hours!

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Actors

• Only men and boys
• Young boys whose voices had not changed play
  womens roles
• Would have been considered indecent for a woman
  to appear on stage

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Elizabethan Words

• An,and If
• Anon Soon
• Aye Yes
• But Except for
• Een Even
• Eer Ever

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Words (cont.)

• Haply Perhaps
• Happy Fortunate
• Hence Away, from her
• Hie Hurry
• Marry Indeed

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Words (cont.)

• Whence Where
• Wilt Will, will you
• Withal In addition to
• Would Wish

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Test Your Knowledge

• Laugh yourselves into ___________
• Not __________ an inch
• Hes full of the _________ of human kindness

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Shakespeare Part Two

• In Drama there are two kinds of writingDialogue
  and Stage Directions

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Dialogue

• Dialogue tells the story
• Characters speaking to one another
• Soliloquy- long speech expressing private
  thoughts, delivered alone onstage
• Monologue- long speech delivered to another
• Aside- a private remark to one character or to
  the audience (It is understood not to be heard by
  other characters).
• Chorus- single or group of characters who connect
  scenes or convey collective thoughts

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Stage Directions

• Stage Directions- help the cast and production
  staff bring the text to life.
• Playwrights include instructions about the
  setting, costumes, lighting, scenery, and props
  used onstage.
• This text may tell how and when characters should
  move and deliver lines.
• Stage directions are usually printed in italics
  and set in brackets or parentheses.

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Drama Tragedy

• Tragic Hero- an outstanding person whose downfall
  is caused by his own flawed behavior
• Tragic Flaw- part of the heros character that
  leads him to make a fatal mistake
• Emphasizes human greatness
• Arouses pity, fear, and awe
• Ends unhappily with destruction of hero
• Comic relief- humorous scenes or characters that
  relieve tension (gives the audience a break)

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Drama Comedy

• Comedies show ordinary people in conflict with
  society.
• Comedic conflicts arise from misunderstandings,
  deceptions, disapproving authority figures,
  mistaken identities, and they are always resolved
  happily.
• Emphasizes human weakness
• Arouses sympathy, amusement
• Romantic comedy- problems among lovers
• Comedy of manners- satirizes social customs of
  society

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Do You Speak Shakespeare?

• Now is the _________ of our discontent
• Parting is such sweet __________
• Dead as a ____________

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Understanding Shakespeare

• His writing follows the plot model

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How to Read Shakespeare

• Reread for clarity- reread passages to understand
  characters and what is going on.
• Use text aids- stage directions and notes in the
  margin.
• Paraphrase- read to the end of the sentence and
  put it in your own words.
• Envision the Drama- Imagine how the scenes would
  look on stage, how the characters move, and how
  they would sound.

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Blank Verse

• Much of Macbeth is written in
• unrhymed verse
• iambic (unstressed, stressed)
• pentameter( 5 feet to a line)
• ends up to be 10 syllable lines

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Prose

• Ordinary writing that is not poetry, drama, or
  song
• Only characters in the lower social classes speak
  this way in Shakespeares plays
• Why do you suppose that is? (Act II, Scene 3)
  pg. 332

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Test Your Knowledge

• All that glitters is not __________
• To _______ own self be true
• He lives a ____________ life

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Metaphorical Language

• Comparison of unlike things-
• Paris standing over the lifeless body of
  Juliet, Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal
  bed I strew
• Thou detestable manGorged with the dearest
  morsel of the earth Romeo

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Pun

• Shakespeare loved to use them!!!
• Humorous use of a word with two meanings gt
  sometimes missed by the reader because of
  Elizabethan language and innuendo.

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Dramatic Irony

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

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Verbal Irony

• Words used to suggest the opposite of what is
  meant

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Situational Irony

• An event occurs that directly contradicts the
  expectations of the characters, the reader, or
  the audience

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Is Shakespeare still relevant today?How has his
work been used?

• Knock, Knock jokes- first to use them (Macbeth)
• R J 1594
• West Side Story 1961 movie
• Grease 1978 movie musical
• R J Leonardo DiCaprio 1996

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Is Shakespeare still relevant today?

• Love Story- song by Taylor Swift 2008
• Gnomeo Juliet 2010-11
• Letters to Juliet- movie 2010
• Episode of Glee

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Final quotes- Test Your Knowledge

• Whats done is __________
• It was Greek to __________
• That will last until the crack of _________
• Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou __________?

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Now its your turn Problem solve-generate ideas
from categories

• Shakespeares life
• His use of words
• The Theater
• Drama terms 1
• Drama terms 2
• His plays
• How to read Shakespeare
• Elizabethan words
• Ways we still use Shakespeare
• Your choice

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Assignment- Create, design, and writeexit
analyze answer What can you infer about
Shakespeares time period?

• Creative suggestions
• Flip book, mini booklet, brochure
• Puzzle, flash cards, pie chart
• Song or rap with the material
• Movie poster, theme collage, map, or diagram
• Your choice- see me

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Shakespeares Life

• Map of Britain with Stratford on Avon on it.
• Scenes or facts from his early days

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His use of words

• Inventions define and illustrate, or
• Create examples of puns, metaphors, or other
• Figurative language
• Knock, knock jokes- create more

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The Theater

• Actors
• Spectators
• Props
• Costumes
• Draw the theater itself

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Drama terms 1

• Dialogue, soliloquoy, monologue, aside,
• Stage directions, tragic hero, tragic flaw, comic
  relief

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Drama terms 2

• Verbal irony, situational irony, dramatic irony
• Prose, blank verse
• Plot model and elements

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Shakespeares plays

• Comedy
• Tragedy
• History
• 37 plays
• 154 sonnets- define
• Any other interesting info

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How to read Shakespeare

• Basic instructions on how to read it
• Booklet
• Manual
• pictures

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Elizabethan words

• List define
• make a mini dictionary or pictionary

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Your choice

• See me for an idea you may have.