Name: _________________________________________________________________________ Per. ________ Twelfth Night or what you will This Packet is due: ______________________ Packets will be graded on: Completion (50%): All spaces filled, all questions answered. Accuracy (25%): All answers correct and/or logically connected to the text Thoroughness (25%): All answers are complete thoughts; ideas are explored or explained; complete sentences not required, but one-word answers will rarely be sufficient. POINTS POSSIBLE: 100 Score: _____/100
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Completion (50%): All spaces filled, all questions answered.
Accuracy (25%): All answers correct and/or logically connected to the text
Thoroughness (25%): All answers are complete thoughts; ideas are explored
or explained; complete sentences not required, but one-word answers will
rarely be sufficient.
POINTS POSSIBLE: 100
Score: _____/100
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Shakespeare Background Notes:
1. Where was Shakespeare born, and in what year? When did he die?
2. What kind of schooling did Shakespeare probably receive? What would he have learned?
3. When (and why) did Shakespeare marry? How old was he? How old was his wife? What children
did they have?
4. What happened in the years following his marriage?
5. What is the most famous part of Shakespeare’s will? Why is this?
6. What did Shakespeare’s parents do? What kind of childhood/young adult life did this provide him?
7. When did Shakespeare first appear in London?
8. What reputation did the theater have at the time Shakespeare lived?
9. What was Shakespeare’s theater like? What was it called? Who attended plays there?
10. What two monarchs ruled England during Shakespeare’s lifetime?
11. Shakespeare wrote ______________________ and plays. His plays include three genres:
__________________________ , __________________________, and ______________________.
12. What controversy surrounds all of Shakespeare’s writing?
13. What controversy surrounds Shakespeare’s sonnets?
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Rhyme Scheme
Anatomy of a Sonnet
SONNET 116
A Let me not to the marriage of true minds
B Admit impediments. Love is not love
A Which alters when it alteration finds,
B Or bends with the remover to remove:
C O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
D That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
C It is the star to every wandering bark,
D Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
E Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
F Within his bending sickle's compass come;
E Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
F But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
G If this be error and upon me proved,
G I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Quatrain: a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes. Shakespearean Sonnets have three quatrains.
Couplet: two consecutive lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme. Shakespearean sonnets end with one couplet, which usually reveals the poem’s theme.
Iambic Pentameter: A type of meter consisting of five “iambs.” An iamb is a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. One line of iambic pentameter therefore consists of ten syllables. Iambic pentameter was considered similar to, but more elevated than everyday speech patterns. NOTE: While iambic pentameter was common for both Blank Verse (plays) and sonnets, Shakespeare doesn’t always stick to it exclusively—he uses variations of it, instead.
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Paraphrase the following sonnet line-by-line. Remember that a paraphrase should capture the gist of a quote; it
need not be word for word. Note the TONE of this sonnet (use your tone/mood handout).
Sonnet 130
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go,
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: