Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.
-
Upload
julius-chase -
Category
Documents
-
view
220 -
download
3
Transcript of Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.
![Page 1: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Rome,Julius Caesar
&Shakespeare
English IIRSS - 2009
![Page 2: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Rome
![Page 3: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Roman Garb
![Page 4: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Roman classes
• Right to vote– Patricians
• Nobles (landowners)
– Plebians• Commoners
(regular townspeople)
• No rights– Slaves
• Captured prisoners of war
![Page 5: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Rome
• Monarchy? Republic? Dictatorship? Oh my!
• How about a triumvirate!!– Caesar– Crassus– Pompey
![Page 6: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Julius Caesar
• In 58 B.C., Caesar governed part of Gaul (France) and over the next 10 years conquered all of Gaul.
• Very charismatic. People loved him.
![Page 8: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Pompey
• With Crassus gone, it’s only Caesar and Pompey ruling Rome. (…so much for that triumvirate)
• Pompey feels jealous of Caesar’s popularity.
• He convinces the Senate to order Caesar to D.E.A.R. (drop everything and return – to Rome, that is…)
![Page 9: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Caesar
• Being the brave and daring man that he is, Caesar decides to invade Rome instead.
• He wins the battle and makes himself absolute ruler. Isn’t there another word for that?
![Page 10: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Pompey
• Ran… like the coward he is… to Greece.
• Caesar followed him.
• Ran again… to Egypt.
• This time he was murdered (guess who did it…)
![Page 11: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Caesar
• 3 years later, he found Pompey’s sons and defeated them as well. (Why?)
• Caesar returns to Rome in victory and becomes the undisputed leader of the entire Roman Empire!!!
![Page 12: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Marcus Brutus
• Very good friends with Caesar.
• Caesar appointed him to a high office.
• Conspirators convinced him that Caesar was too powerful and needed to be taken down.
![Page 13: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Conspirators against Caesar• Marcus Brutus• Caius Cassius
– Brutus’ brother-in-law
• Decius Brutus• Casca• Cinna• Metellus Cimber• Trebonius• Caius Ligarius
![Page 14: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Caesar’s Death
![Page 15: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Shakespeare probably used Greek historian Plutarch’s (46 – 127) writings to write his play, Julius Caesar.
![Page 16: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
William Shakespeare
• (1564 – 1616)• Born in
Stratford-upon-Avon (England)
• This period is known as the Elizabethan Era; therefore, Shakespeare’s type of drama is known as Elizabethan Drama. (Who is this Elizabeth person?)
![Page 17: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Elizabethan Drama
• Shakespeare wrote three types of plays:– Comedies (nobody dies)– Tragedies (everybody dies)– Histories (based on history)
• Julius Caesar is a historical tragedy. (Why do you think that is? Hmm…)
• His plays were performed in the Globe Theatre.
![Page 18: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
The Globe Theatre
• Holds up to 3000 patrons.
• Circular structure.
• Stage in the middle.
• Working-class folks paid a penny ($4 now) & stood on the ground. (exposed to weather, dirty)
• For 2 pennies, you can sit in the gallery. (Roof, see better)
![Page 19: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Words to know…
• Act – a division within a play
• Aside – lines that are spoken by a character directly to the audience
• Anachronism – objects or concepts that are not placed in their proper historical time period.
• Double entendre – phrases or words which have double meanings, one of which is usually sexual in nature
• Dialogue – conversation between two or more characters
![Page 20: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
• Drama – work of literature designed to be performed in front of an audience
• Dramatic irony – when the audience or reader knows something that the characters in the story do not know
• Foil – a character who is nearly opposite of another character
• Hubris – excessive pride that leads to a character’s downfall (tragic flaw).
• Irony – a contradiction between expectation and reality.
![Page 21: Rome, Julius Caesar & Shakespeare English II RSS - 2009.](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022081519/56649f305503460f94c4bba4/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
• Monologue – a long speech spoken by a character to himself, another character, or to the audience
• Pun – a play on words that either sound alike or that have multiple meanings
• Rebuttal – rhetorical device meant to contradict previous comments given by another party.
• Scene – a division of an act into smaller parts
• Soliloquy – thoughts spoken aloud by a character when he/she is alone
• Synecdoche – referring to the part when you mean the whole.