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Thee and Thou
Disappearing vowels
• Mostly “i” and “e” are affected.• Tries to get at both the accent and the poetry.• Supp’d = supped
Shakespeare Pretest
• Results: 27%!!
• Take out notebook paper• Number 1-8, with 3-4 spaces in between each
number
1. Fair is foul, and foul is fair…
2. O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife…
3. Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t.
4. That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold.
5. By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes
6. Double, double, toil and trouble,fire burn and cauldron bubble
7. It will have blood, they say, blood will have blood.
8. I am in blood stepp’d so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er.
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• Bloody gory play
•Ambition run wild•“Vaulting ambition”
The Elizabethan
Theatre
Renaissance EnglandMost of the 1500s or 16th Century
•Place: England•Also known as:• Elizabethan England, Tudor
England
What do you already know about William Shakespeare?
• Elizabeth I of England
Reign: 1558-1603
Her father:
Her father:
• Henry VIII• The one with the 6 wives• Reign 1509-1547
Her sister:
Her sister:
• Mary I• Also known asBloody MaryReign: 1553-1558
Her cousin:
Her cousin:
• Mary Stuart• Also known asMary Queen of ScotsHer son, James VII of Scotland will becomeElizabeth’s heir and James IOf England
• Elizabeth I of England
Was responsible for regulating the theatres.
James I
• Stuart Dynasty• 1603-1625• Scotland
Born in April of 1564
Grew up in Stratford-Upon-Avon outside of London in England
Son of a glover and an up and coming business man. Seemed destined to go to university.
Something changed in John Shakespeare’s fortunes, and William did not go to university.
Married Ann Hathaway in 1582.
Had three children: Susanna, Hamnet, and Judith
By late 1580’s William was in London writing plays and acting in them.
By 1594 he was with the premiere acting company in London, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. He was with this company for the next 15 years.
Wrote 37 plays and 2 cycles of Sonnets.
Among these are some of themost enduring plays of alltime: A Midsummer Night’sDream, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear,Twelfth Night, Henry V, and Othello.
Died in 1616.
His plays were published together in 1623 in what came to be known as the First Folio.
Quartos and FoliosDemonstration
About half (18 or so) of the plays published as quartos during W.S. life.
William Shakespeare is the world’s most produced playwright, living or dead.
Front piece of the 1st Folio edition of 1623.
800 published
233 surviving copies
One sold at auction in 2001 for 6 million dollars.
Categories
• Three main types of playsTragedies: plays where the main
character of high status is brought low due to flaws in personality. This is often in conjunction with fate. The protagonist usually comes to some sort of self- awareness in the process. Look for when the character names himself.
• King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth
• Comedies: plays where the main characters go through transformations that lead to personal and communal insight, yet end happily or in marriage.
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado about Nothing, The Merry Wives of Windsor
• History playsa genre Shakespeare perfectedplays about an historical personage,
exploring the person’s life, trials, hopes, and dreams, as well as issues of leadership and patriotism.
• Richard II, Henry V, King John, Henry IV pts 1 and 2
• Sub-categories:Roman plays: Titus Andronicus, Julius
Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus
• Problem Plays:Measure for Measure, All’s Well that
Ends Well, Troilus and Cressida
• Romances:– Cymbeline, Winter’s Tale, The Tempest
Replica at the Folger Shakespeare Library of the Shakespeare memorial in Stratford.
Portraits of Shakespeare
Martin Droeshout Portrait 1623, First Folio
William Marshall
Portrait 1640
The Chandos Portrait
Circa 1630
Anne Hathaway’s Cottage
The Grammar School
What is the inscription on Shakespeare’s grave?
GOOD FREND FOR JESUS SAKE FORBEARE,TO DIGG THE DUST ENCLOASED HEARE:
BLESTE BE Ye MAN Yt [that] SPARES THES STONES,AND CURST BE HE Yt MOVES MY BONES.
What were the different ticket costs to go to a play in Shakespeare’s time? Prices of admission depended on the kind of theater. Outdoor theaters like the Globe charged—in the early days—one penny ($1.66) to get in and another penny if you wanted to sit in the balconies. (A penny equals about $1.66 by today’s standards. Other equivalents are also in current US dollars.) By the early seventeenth century, they probably charged a flat sixpence (about $10) to get in. Admission to the private indoor theaters, which catered to a more affluent audience, generally began at a basic sixpence to gain entry to the galleries. Fancy gallants who wanted to be seen, however, could sit on the stage for two shillings ($40), and a box could be had for half-a-crown ($50). (From the Folger’s Shakespeare Library)
The Globe was built from the timbers of Burbage’s “The Theater” in 1599.
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← The inner above
The tiring house, “backstage”↓
The world’s most produced playwright!
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