Do Now:
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What do you know about Shakespeare?
Write down anything and everything that
comes to mind when you hear the name
Shakespeare. Think of places, titles of his
works, history, etc.
The Tragedy of
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
“Hostility and its Effect on the Innocent”
Structure
Play
Scene 1
Act I
Act 2
Scene 2
Scene 3
Plot: Types of Conflict
Character vs Character
Character vs Nature
Character vs Society
Character vs Self
The Renaissance: 1400 - 1650
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Renaissance means "rebirth“.
It was characterized by a surge of interest in
classical learning and values.
The Renaissance witnessed
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the discovery and exploration of new continents
the understanding of the Solar System
the growth of commerce
the invention of
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paper
Printing
the mariner's compass
gunpowder.
It was a time of classical learning and wisdom.
The Reformation
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1A 16th century movement in Europe.
A time of religious reform.
Characterized by reforming the Cathoic
Church and the establishment of
Protestant Churches.
King Henry VIII
A true Renaissance Man:
•Developed his own church.
•Indulged every impulse.
•Killed many wives.
• Most notably Queen Mary
I – also known as “bloody
Mary”
•Left two powerful daughters and
one weak son to fight and divide
a nation for many years
Elizabeth I
Protestant “Virgin” Queen
Elizabeth is reported to
have killed or maimed many
of her lovers as well as
anyone else who crossed
her.
Her very public tantrums
changed England for ever –
socially and politically.
Shakespeare feared her
wrath and wrote to please
her – most of the time!
William
Shakespeare
and his Romeo
and Juliet
English I
Biography of a Poet and Playwright
• Born April 23, 1564 in Stratfordupon-Avon, England.
• Parents: John and Mary
Shakespeare.
• William was the third child of
eight and the first son.
• Wrote 154 sonnets and 38 plays.
• Died April 23, 1616
Marriage
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Anne Hathaway was 26 years old
when she and Shakespeare
married. William was 19.
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Anne and Will would have three
children as a family.
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After William turned 21, William
left Anne for over twenty-five
years.
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Shakespeare returned to Anne
shortly before his death.
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Upon her death, Anne asked to be
buried with him.
Children
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Sussana, born May 23, 1583 – six months after
her parents’ marriage
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Sussana would care for her father in London for
many years until her marriage to a doctor.
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Two years later on January 31, 1585, Anne and
William's twins, Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare,
were born.
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Hamnet Shakespeare contracted the Bubonic
Plague and died at the age of eleven.
ELIZABETHAN
THEATRES
1500 - 1650
Theatre Characteristics
They were of two types:
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Open-air amphitheatres
 Indoor halls
There was little or no scenery used on the
stage.
Admission to the open-air amphitheatres cost
one old penny.
Was an acting
group that
included
Shakespeare.
Also known
as “The
King’s Men”
The group that
acted at The
Globe
Was one of the
largest group of
actors at the
time
The Globe Theatre
The Globe is located on
the edge of London
On Southwark Street
The Globe is near the
Thames River
The Globe Theatre – Shakespeare’s Most
Successful Financial Venture
Called the
“Wooden O”
because of its
eight sided shape.
Ticket Prices:
1 pence – to
stand by the
stage
2 pences – to sit
around the stage
walls
No curtains or
set pieces
The orchestra
stood on the
balcony of the
stage.
The penny pit
was the area on
the ground in
which peasants
would stand to
see the play
The Globe - built in 1599.
Open-air amphitheatre, with three tiers of galleries, a
covered stage, and a thatched roof.
The first Globe burned down in 1611, when its thatch
caught fire during a performance.
The second Globe was built on the foundations of the
first but given a tiled roof.
It could accommodate an audience of 3,000.
A Virtual Tour and History
Do Now:
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William Shakespeare wrote ________ sonnets
and _________ plays. He had three children;
Susanna, __________, and _________. His
most famous theater was called The
_________ theater, for its circular shape. Poor
folk, or ___________, could pay one pence to
see a play by Shakespeare’s acting troupe
called _________ __________’s Men.
William Shakespeare and
the Shakespearean
Sonnet
English I
dialogue: conversation between two or more characters
monologue: a long speech by one character
soliloquy: an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by
oneself or regardless of anyone else hearing
aside: a remark or passage by characters in a play intended
to be heard only by the audience, not the other character
What is a sonnet?
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14 line poem written in iambic pentameter
Iambic Pentameter?
Iambic Pentameter is the rhythm and meter in
which poets and playwrights wrote in
Elizabethan England.
Quatrain
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Quatrains are
four line stanzas of
any kind
Rhyming Pattern/ Rhyme
Scheme
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The Shakespearean
sonnet has three
quatrains followed by
a couplet, the scheme
being: abab cdcd
efef gg.
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Iambic Pentameter?
Iambic Pentameter is the rhythm and meter
in which poets and playwrights wrote in
Elizabethan England.
Iambic…
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Quite simply, it sounds
like this: dee DUM, dee
DUM, dee DUM, dee
DUM, dee DUM. It
consists of a line of five
iambic feet, ten syllables
with five unstressed and
five stressed syllables.
It is the rhythm of
the human heart
beat.
Syllables?
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What is a syllable?
There are three syllables (separate sounds)
in the word syllable!
“But soft, what light through yonder window
breaks.”
How many syllables are there in that
quotation?
Pentameter…
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Well an ‘iamb’ is ‘dee Dum’ – it is the heart
beat.
Penta is from the Greek for five.
Meter is really the pattern or rhythm
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Every set pattern is a foot
So, there are five iambs (feet) per line!
(Iambic penta meter )
Scan These Lines
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I am a pirate with a wooden leg
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I AM / a PI / rate WITH / a WOOD / en LEG
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But soft: what light through yonder window breaks?
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Shakespeare’s Writings
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Histories
2 Henry VI
3 Henry VI
1 Henry VI
Richard III
Richard II
King John
1 Henry IV
2 Henry IV
Henry V
Henry VIII
Tragedies
Titus Andronicus
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Othello
Timon of Athens
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Comedies
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Taming of the Shrew
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Much Ado About Nothing
As You Like It
Twelfth Night
Troilus and Cressida
Measure for Measure
All's Well That Ends Well
Pericles Prince of Tyre
The Winter's Tale
Cymbeline
The Tempest
Poetry
Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
Sonnets
`A Lover's Complaint'
The Passionate Pilgrim
The Phoenix and The Turtle
Romeo
and
Juliet
Prologue
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Establishes the setting
Introduces main characters
Explains background
Introduces character’s main conflict
Spoken by the chorus
If the audience does not like the story, they
may leave and get their money back.
Prologue: Romeo and Juliet
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[Enter] CHORUS.
Chorus
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
[Exit.]
Do Now:
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What are your thoughts and feelings
about love and marriage? You will have a
few minutes to write out your thoughts in
your notebook. We will quickly discuss
your thoughts and I will share and offer
answers aloud.