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Shakespeare
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When and where was Shakespeare born? | April 23, 1564 in Stratford on the Avon |
| When did he die and where was he buried? | April 23, 1616 and buried in Holy Trinity Church |
| When was he baptized? | April 26, 1564 |
| Hometown? | Stratford-on-the-Avon |
| Father? | John Shakespeare was a glover (made gloves) William would have learned this trade |
| Father's other proffessions? | Produce dealer and served as an official in Stratford as alderman and baliff |
| Why/when was his father able to purchase a coat of arms? | Likely William's money in 1596 |
| Mother's name? | Mary Arden |
| How many children did Mary Arden have? | 8, William was third but 1st boy. |
| Where was William educated? | King's New School, a grammar school, until age 14 |
| What did he learn to write and study? | Greek and Latin |
| Did he go to university? | No, but he read constantly to find material. |
| Did he face critisism? | Yes from other playwrites, on the matter that he had no formal training. Some said he did not write his plays because of this lack. |
| When/whom did he marry? | In 1583 at 18 or 19, William married Anne Hathaway |
| Where did the newlyweds move? | To Anne's family cottage (her fam was well off) |
| How many children does he have? | 3: Susanna, and twins Judith and Hamnet |
| When did Hamnet die and when? | Age 10 from the plague |
| When did Shakespeare write? | 1589-1613 |
| What are the four types of plays? | Comedy, Tragedy, History, Problem plays |
| Comedy | Ends in marriage |
| Tradgedy | Ends in death |
| History | Retells but in dramatic fashion |
| Problem plays | Mixed, romances |
| His writing and acting took place w/ | With "The Lord Chamberlain's Men" |
| Henry Carey | 1st Baron Hunsdon, replaced by George Carey after his death. Then known as Lord Hunsdon's Men |
| When was the company known as Lord Hunsdon's Men ? | 1594-1603 |
| King James I came to power and then what? | Sponsored the company (now called The Kings Men" |
| Where did he work in 1599? | The Theater |
| How did the Theater End | Problems renweing the lease and argue over property |
| When was the globe built and by whom? | Burbage bros 1599 |
| What was the Globe's nickname? | The Wooden O |
| What happened to the Globe? | Burned down after a performance of Henry VIII in 1613. It was rebuilt ad eventually closed. |
| What is the Great Chain of Being? | Order of universe as seen by Elizibethens |
| Everyone and everything has its place so what was at the top? | God |
| Order of GCB? | God, angels, planets, kings/queens, nobles, commoners, lions/eagles, worms/shellfish |
| MOVEMENT of GCB= | CHAOS |
| What makes this period interesting? | Contrast between world views |
| What made plays interesting? 5 things | Widespread publication of Greek and Latin texts, GCB, Christianity, new scientific theories, growing feild of exploration in New World |
| What did Shakespeare and his contemporaries do w these interesting things? | Reflect on them in their plays and poetry of the day |
| What else did he draw inspo from? | Experiences in growing city of London and early experience in a small town. |
| Aside | 1-2 lines speech directed to audience not heard by other characters onstage |
| Blank Verse | Unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter made up of 5 pairs of unaccented and accented syllables w slight variation |
| Away | a/way emphasis on second syllable |
| u | unaccented |
| / | stressed, emphasis, accent |
| Epilogue | Final adress to audience usually from a character in the play |
| Prologue | Speech delivered by chorus member before action starts to set the scene |
| Soliloquy | Speech by character who is alone onstage or whose presence is not known to other characters (unrecognized) Expresses conglict and feeling |
| Monologue | speech by character for benefit of and directed to another character(s) |
| Why do we have thee,ye,etc | In Elizibethan and Jacobean English there was a difference between 2nd person pronouns in sing/plural forms |
| Thou | Nomanitiave singular |
| Ye | Nominative plural |
| Thee | Objective singular |
| You | Objective plural |
| Thy | Possesive adj singular |
| Your | Possesive adj plural |
| Thine | Possesive pronoun singular |
| Yours | Possesive pronoun plural |
| Antecedant action | Action before play starts |
| Replication | Echo or reverberation |
| Mettle | Someone's basic character |
| Spare | Lean or thin |
| Infirmity | Bodily weakness |
| Tempests | Violent windstorms often w rain, snow or hail |
| surly (adv) | In a proud commanding way |
| portentous | Foreboding, full of unspecified meaning |
| Prodigious | Impressively forceful |
| Who was the first Triumvirate of Rome | Caesar, Pompey and Crassus |
| When did Caesar defear Pompey | Febuary 15, he loses and dies |
| What happens to Crassus | He's removed |
| Who are Flavius and Marullus | Tribunes upset w comotion in street. People cheer for Caesar when they lit used to cheer for Pompey |
| Caesar marching through during the purifying festival of Luprical means what? | Change is coming throughout the empire |
| Theme 1: | Loyalty M and F to Pompey, Pompey to Caesar? |
| Theme 2: | Mob mentality- group ruled by emotion |
| Theme 3: | Ambition- using celebration to elevate position |
| Theme 4: | Supernatural-storm and Caesar and people out of GCB |
| Ides of March | 15th of March (taxpaying kind of, irrelevant date to Caesar) "Beware Ides of March" -Soothesayer (speaks on behalf of gods) |
| Caesar | Power hungry, demanding, insensitve, has epilepsy, selfish |
| Brutus | Serious, worried, for the people all the way, some think he's easily manipulated, friend to Caesar |
| Cassius | Scheming, hated by Caesar, leen hungry look for power, smart |
| Casca | Not in favor of Caesar, won't be fooled, no respect for the people |
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smyers28