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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
Isle of Wight Mardi Gras 2016: Shakespeare 400
