Transcript
It’s Greek to me.
Elbow room
Knock knock! Who’s there?
In a pickle
Love is blind
In a better world than this
Break the ice
Refused to budge an inch
Dead as a doornail
Fancy free
For goodness sake
Good riddance
Melted into thin air
Have not slept one wink
The naked truth
Star crossed lovers
Seen better days
Tell the truth and shame the devil
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
Married Anne Hathaway and had three children
Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men.
Tragedies
Comedies
Histories
What years did Shakespeare live?
1564-1616
In what British town did Shakespeare live?
Stratford upon Avon
Shakespeare wrote both _______ and ________.
Shakespeare wrote plays and poetry
What is a sonnet?
A sonnet is a 14 line poem.
What is the rhyme scheme of sonnet?
abab cdcd efef gg
Which of Shakespeare’s sonnets is considered to be the most famous?
Sonnet 18 “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”
All of the actors were men
Plays were performed during the day
Few props were used, outside of costumes.
Socio-economic status of the audience was varied.
The poorer people stood in the center; they were called groundlings.
The audience was vocally involved.
Outbreaks of the Bubonic Plague were so serious that the Globe Theatre was forced to close several times. The outbreaks and closures occurred in 1593 , 1603 and 1608. In 1563, in London alone, over 20,000 people died of the deadly Bubonic Plague.
William Shakespeare and his company built TWO Globe Theatres. On June 29, 1613, there was a fire at the original Globe and the theatre burnt to the ground within two hours. A new Globe was quickly re-built in 1614.
The motto of the Globe theatre was "Totus mundus agithistrionem" ( the whole world is a playhouse ). The phrase was slightly re-worded in the William Shakespeare play As You Like It to "All the world’s a stage," which was performed at the Globe Theatre.
Boys played the female roles, as said earlier…the lead content in the white make-up they wore led to many early deaths of the boy actors.
What was Shakespeare’s theater called?
The Globe
What else was it called?
The Wooden O
Where was the theater?
London
What were the benefits of the theater being round?
CHARACTERS Listed in order of importance
PROLOGUE Introduction to story
ACT I Scene [Stage directions] Dialogue is the conversation between characters Monologue is when only one character is speaking. An aside is when a character speaks and the other
characters aren’t supposed to hear. Soliloquy: a character speaks his/her thoughts aloud
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