Shakespeare Mardi Gras Ryde Saturday 25 June 2016 · Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar,...

Shakespeare Mardi Gras Ryde Saturday 25 June 2016

Why Shakespeare?

1. The Prelude: William Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlains Men Float, costumed actors and drummers

2. Comedy: Plays with happy endings As you like it, Merchant of Venice, Merry Wives of Windsor, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Taming of the Shrew; Twelfth Night

3. Tragedy: Plays with sad endings Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, King Lear, Anthony & Cleopatra, Othello

4. Creative Vocabulary: Expressions & sayings from Shakespeare A dish fit for the gods; As white as driven snow; If music be the food of love play on; Green eyed monster; All that glitters is not gold; As luck would have it; Gild the lily; In a pickle; A sea change; A wild goose chase…. And more

5. Finale: “This is very Midsummer Madness!” Signature Costumes and NCC new commissioned work.

The Comedies

Themes:

• Love • Gender roles • Nature • City life v country life

Setting:

• France, Forest of Arden

Famous Quotes:

• “All the worlds a stage and all the men and women merely players”

• “Blow, blow, thou winter wind”

• “Thereby hangs a tale”

• “Forever and a day”

• “Rhyme nor reason”

• “Under the greenwood tree”

As you like it

The Comedies

Themes:

• Social injustice • Revenge • Money and love

Setting:

• Italy: Venice

Famous Quotes:

• “All that glistens is not gold”

• “If you wrong us shall we not revenge?”

• “Love is blind”

• “A pound of flesh”

• “The Quality of Mercy is not strained”

The Merchant of Venice

The Comedies

Themes:

• Marriage and wealth • Class • Jealousy • Language and communication

Setting: • Windsor Castle

Famous Quotes:

• “The world’s mine oyster”

• “The short and the long of it”

• “What the dickens”

• “As good luck would have it”

• “Better three hours too soon than a minute late”

The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Comedies

Themes:

Love and marriage Opposites and contrasts Magic Order and disorder Dreams

Setting:

Athens, and a wood nearby

Famous Quotes:

“The course of true love never did run smooth”

“Love looks not with the eyes”

“I am the merry wanderer of the night”

“Fancy free”

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Comedies

Themes:

Forgive and forget Exploration and mistreatment of

native populations Friendship Freedom Nature Power

Setting:

The sea and an Island

Famous Quotes:

“We are such stuff as dreams are made of”

“Brave new world”

“A sea change”

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here”

The Tempest

The Comedies

Themes:

Role of women Love Money makes the man

Setting:

Italy, Padua

Famous Quotes:

“Out of the jaws of death”

“The whirlygig of time”

“For the rain it raineth every day”

“I’ll not budge an inch”

The Taming of the Shrew

The Comedies

Themes:

• Love • Disguise • Appearance

Setting:

Mythological Illyria (Adriatic coast)

Famous Quotes:

“If music be the food of love, play on”

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust apon them”

“This is very midsummer madness”

Twelfth Night

The Tragedies

Themes:

• Ambition • Revenge • Loyalty • Madness • The supernatural

Setting: Denmark -Elsinore

Famous Quotes:

“To be or not to be – that is the question”

“Heart of hearts”

“To thine own self be true”

“Every dog will have its day”

“In my mind’s eye”

“Get thee to a Nunnery”

Hamlet

The Tragedies

Themes:

• Love • Tragedy • Conflict • Fate

Setting:

Italy – Verona

Famous Quotes:

“O Romeo Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo?”

“Parting is such sweet sorrow”

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”

“A fool’s paradise”

“Wild goose chase”

Romeo and Juliet

The Tragedies

Themes:

• Idealism • Ambition • Deceit • Recognise and heed warnings • Betrayal

Setting:

Rome

Famous Quotes: “Friends, Romans, Countrymen,

lend me your ears”

“I came I saw I conquered “

“A dish fit for the gods”

“Beware the ides of March”

Julius Caesar

The Tragedies

Themes:

• Ambition • Lust for power • Betrayal • Fate • War and devastation

Setting:

Scotland & England

Famous Quotes:

• “Is this a dagger that I see before me?”

• “Double double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble”

• “When shall we three meet again in thunder lightning and in rain?”

• “Something Wicked this way comes”

• “Knock knock who’s there?”

• “What’s done cannot be undone”

Macbeth

The Tragedies

Motifs: • Nature • Blindness • Clothing & nakedness • Madness • Betrayal

Themes:

• Law and order • Appearance v reality • Justice • Reconciliation

Setting:

Britain

Famous Quotes:

“How sharper than a serpents tooth it is to have a thankless child”

“Full circle”

“I am a man more sinned against than sinning”

King Lear

The Tragedies

Themes:

• Love • Opposites/binaries • Duty & honour

Setting:

Egypt & Rome

Famous Quotes:

“Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety”

“My salad days”

Anthony and Cleopatra

Motifs: • dominant female power over men

The Tragedies

Themes: • Jealousy • Reputation and honour • Love • Betrayal • Race

Setting: Venice & Cyprus

Famous Quotes: “Green eyed monster” “Wear my heart upon my

sleeve” “Vanish into thin air” “I am what I am”

Othello

Motifs: • Black and white imagery • Use of song • The Devil

A DISH FIT FOR THE GODS Julius Caesar

AS WHITE AS DRIVEN SNOW A Winter’s Tale

IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE Twelfth night

GREEN EYED MONSTER Othello

ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD The Merchant Of Venice

A SEA CHANGE The Tempest

AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT The Merry Wives Of Windsor

WILD GOOSE CHASE Romeo And Juliet

GILD THE LILY King John

IN A PICKLE The Tempest

FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE King John

THE WHIRLYGIG OF TIME Taming of the Shrew

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resources/activities.aspx http://www.rsc.org.uk/downloads/arts_award_and_rs

c_mapping_resource_2014.pdf

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The Comedies

1. As you like it 2. The Merchant of Venice 3. The Merry Wives of Windsor 4. A Midsummer Nights Dream 5. The Tempest 6. The Taming of The Shrew 7. Twelfth Night

The Tragedies

1. Hamlet 2. Romeo & Juliet 3. Julius Ceasar 4. Macbeth 5. King Lear 6. Anthony & Cleopatra 7. Othello

The Creative Vocabularies

1. A Dish fit for the Gods 2. As White as Driven Snow 3. If Music be the Food of Love 4. Green Eyed Monster 5. All that Glitters is not Gold 6. A Sea Change 7. As luck would have it 8. Wild Goose Chase 9. Gild the Lily 10. In a Pickle 11. Fight Fire With Fire 12. The Whirlygig of Time

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