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WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREPlease take your seat and start your notes by answering:
What is one thing you already know about Shakespeare? Why do we study him?
EXPECTATIONSFor each slide, write two most important points in your notes
BEFORE THE RENAISSANCE
• Folk Tales• Retelling of stories• Not very famous Playwrites• Actors travelled town to town in
turn for money and hospitality
• Mass production of new stories and dramas
• Writers and Actors became more popular
Wasn’t the first, but made the style popular!
Shakespeare in Love
Why he was so Popular!
Common Plots of Shakespeare• Overcoming the
monster• Rags to riches• The quest• Voyage and
return• Comedy• Tragedy• Rebirth
Words Invented:
Shakespeare’s Patron: Queen Elizabeth
A Midsummer-Night's Dream
"That very time I saw — but thou couldst not —Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he tookAt a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bowAs it should pierce a hundred-thousand hearts:But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaftQuench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon,And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation fancy free." — Act II., Sc. i.
Film Festivals
Legacy
Words Invented:
Common Plots of Shakespeare• Overcoming the
monster• Rags to riches• The quest• Voyage and
return• Comedy• Tragedy• Rebirth
Legacy
LegacyCommon Plots of Shakespeare• Overcoming the
monster• Rags to riches• The quest• Voyage and
return• Comedy• Tragedy• Rebirth
Words Invented:
How has Shakespeare made a long lasting impact on us?
More than just
Drama!!!
(a) When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,(b) And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,(a) Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now,(b) Will be a totter'd weed of small worth held: (c) Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,(d) Where all the treasure of thy lusty days; (c) To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes,(d) Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise.(e) How much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use,(f) If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine(e) Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,'(f) Proving his beauty by succession thine! (g) This were to be new made when thou art old, (g) And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.
Sonnets
"So, till the judgement that yourself arise,You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.“
"You still shall live, such virtue hath my pen,Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men."
Couplets More than just
Drama!!!
"How like Eve's apple doth thy beauty grow,If thy sweet virtue answer not thy show!"
Insults!!!!
Queen Elizabeth I
Assignment:Write three COUPLETS about Elizabeth I
*two lines of that rhyme OR
Write One SONNET about Elizabeth I*14 lines with the ABABABABAB pattern
until the last two lines which are a couplet
