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Well-known Facts about Will (1564-1616)
• Great writer of England
• Plays translated into all languages, musicals, ballets
• Born Stratford-upon-Avon
• Well-to-do, affluent while alive
• Most quoted, other than the Bible
• http://www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/index.htm
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Lesser-known Facts
• Teen father: married pregnant 26 year old Anne Hathaway when he was 18
• Deadbeat dad: Left wife and children for London stage career
• Father of twins• Elizabethan rapper: uses
rhythm and rhyme• “Plagiarism” ?:
• http://www.anonymous-movie.com/
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The Competition
• Bear-baiting• Races• Gambling• Music• Drinking/socializing• Prostitution• Public executions
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Conditions in London-BAD!
• Thames River polluted with raw sewage
• Trees used up for fuel
• Poverty
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Personal hygiene/health
• Bathing considered dangerous
• Body odor strong
• Childhood diseases
• Children often died before 5 years
• Small Pox
• Bubonic Plague
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Living Conditions
• No running water
• Chamber Pots
• Open Sewers
• Crowded
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Clothes
• One set used all year long, rarely washed
• Underclothing slept in, infrequently changed
• Clothes handed down from rich to poor
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The Globe Theater
• Built in 1599 by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men (Theatrical Company)
• Across the Thames- “Wrong side of town”
• King’s Players - Shakespeare’s company
• Penny admission
• Burned down in 1613 during one of Shakespeare’s plays
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Actors
• All men• Female parts played
by young boys• No actual kissing or
hugging on stage
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The groundling
• Poor audience member• Stood around stage in
“the pit”• Women not allowed
(had to dress up as men to attend)
• Threw rotten vegetables at bad performances
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Shakespeare’s Works
• 38 plays firmly attributed to Shakespeare• 14 comedies• 10 histories• 10 tragedies• 4 romances
• Two major poems• Venus and Adonis• Rape of Lucrece
• 154 Sonnets• Numerous other poems
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Shakespeare’s Language
• Wrote in Early Modern English
• A mix of old and very new
• Rural and urban words/images
• Understandable by the lowest peasant and the highest noble
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Shakespeare’s LanguageCoined many words and phrases: into thin air / flesh and blood
accused • addiction • alligator amazement • anchovies • assassination • backing • bandit • bedroom • bump • buzzers • courtship • critic • dauntless • dawn • design • dickens • discontent • embrace • employer • engagements • excitements • exposure • eyeball • fixture • futurity • glow • gust • hint • immediacy • investments • leapfrog • luggage • manager • mimic • misgiving • mountaineer • ode • outbreak • pageantry • pedant • perusal • questioning • reinforcement • retirement • roadway • rumination • savagery • scuffles • shudders • switch • tardiness • transcendence • urging • watchdog • wormhole • zany
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A theatrical convention is a
suspension of reality.
No electricity
Women forbidden
to act on stage
Minimal, contemporary
costumes
Minimal scenery
These control the dialogue.These control the dialogue.
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Audience loves to be scared.
Audience loves to be scared.
Soliloquy
Aside Types of speechTypes of speech
Blood and gore
Use of supernatural
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Use of disguises/
mistaken identity
Multiple marriages
(in comedies)
Multiple murders
(in tragedies)
Last speaker—highest in
rank (in tragedies)
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Romeo and Juliet
• Tragedy• Written in 1595• Set in Verona, Italy• Themes:
1. parental control/rebellious teens
2. fate/freewill
3. impulsive behavior/self-control
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