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Shakespeare!

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When did shakespeare die?   April 23, 1616  
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When was shakespeare born?   April 23, 1564  
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Where was shakespeare born?   Stratford  
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During what era was shakespeare born?   Renaissance (Elizabethan)  
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What was the name of Shakespeare's acting company?   Lord Chamberlain's Men Acting Company  
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a poetic form that usually uses a metrical pattern known as unrhymed iambic pentameter   blank verse  
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the use of a regular rhythm pattern in language   meter  
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a concentrated and heightened form of language , produced through rhythm and sound   poetry  
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the language of everyday, ordinary speech   prose  
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a unit of speech that contains one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable   iamb  
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a poetic form that consists of five iams.   iambic pentameter  
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Shakespeare's plays are primarily _______   verbal  
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Shakespeare used words to express the _____ and ____ of his drama   setting; mood  
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Shakespeare used ____ to express the setting and mood in his drama   words  
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mordern dramas are primarily ___   visual  
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Characters in a Shakespeare play are understood to be characters that _________   represent real people  
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Modern dramas suggest that everything is ____, including the places and people   real  
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____ wrote The Poetics in which he spelled out his ideas on tragedy   Aristotle  
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THE POETICS was a poem that spelled out his ideas on _____   tragedy  
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Aristotle described the stage life as an ____   illusion  
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Aristotle described tragedy as an _______   imitation of an action  
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Shakespear was influenced by _____   medieval art  
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___ was deeply symbolic   medieval art  
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what was the globe theatre shaped like?   O  
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tower attached to the roof   penthouse  
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center area where groundlings watched the plays   pit  
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stage of theater extended into audience with a _______   trapdoor in the middle  
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why were plays perfomed during the day?   because there were no stage lights  
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where were many of shakespeare's plays first performed?   at the globe theater  
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