WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life of Drama

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1 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life of Drama Pre-viewing: What plays written by Shakespeare are you familiar with? All the world is a stage Explain this metaphor. INTRODUCTION 0:00-3:15 Buffoon to be shrouded in mystery timeless Enigma to delight in Essence to enthrall Expressions Flaws to reign The Bard Faults to revere Insight to surpass Magnitude Playwright Vanities Comprehension question: 1. Why is Shakespeare considered a mystery? Quote: He was no of an age but for all time. What does this quote say about Shakespeare s work? Why are people still interested in this playwright?

2 SCENA PRIMA 3:15-11:45 Blessing to be struck badly off Conquest to thwack bitter Edge cruel Expansion Expressions disciplined Exploration black mark dreary Glover first taste Elizabethan Outbreak hustle and bustle lively Plague social ladder notorious Suitor sensational Tavern shrewd Twins well-to-do Wool-dealing 1. What was England s international status in Shakespeare s day? 2. How did Queen Elizabeth I govern her country? 3. Where was Shakespeare born? 4. What disease struck his entire hometown? 5. What was Shakespeare s childhood like? 6. How was he educated? 7. What influence did Roman history have for Shakespeare? 8. What was his first experience in the theater? 9. What was the underlying meaning for Dudley s annual festival in Stratford? 10. What were the circumstances around his withdrawal from school? 11. What circumstances sped up his marriage to Anne Hathaway? 12. What kind of relationship did he have with his wife? 13. What might Shakespeare have been doing in his 20 s?

3 Quote: England was ripe for the arrival of the genius of Shakespeare. Why? SCENA SECUNDA 11:45-23:25 Entanglement to be drawn into consoling Establishment to be on call devastating Outburst to be tight with money duplicitous Proprietor to despise fickle Pub to keep to one s self huge Rage to portray mean-minded Wasp to set out resented to take against somebody vast 1. Who became Shakespeare s patron? 2. What was the rumor between Shakespeare and his patron? 3. Why are his sonnets so significant? 4. Who is the dark lady? 5. What was his professional life like? 6. What was his biggest expense? 7. What style of plays did he write? 8. How many people had seen his first play? 9. What evidence is there of Shakespeare s loveless marriage? Quotes: There is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers that with his tiger s heart wrapped in a player s hide supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you. - Robert Greene Where did the hostility between these two men come from? Shakespeare s darkest fears were about to be realized. What does this quote foreshadow?

4 CLOZE Complete the following quote taken from Twelfth Night: Let thy love be than thyself or thy cannot hold the bent; for women are as whose fair being once doth that very. What does Thomas Decker s quote refer to? A stiff and horror sucks up the of my and my stands end with the panting of my... even when I do but how the bowels of my country have been out. SCENA TERTIA 23:25-31:00 Brothels to be stricken with grief undaunted Condensation to dissipate ungodly Depth to win acclaim to win acclaim Plank Tease 1. How did the death of Shakespeare s son Hamlet affect him and his work? 2. What happened to the original Globe Theater? 3. Who played the roles for women in Shakespeare s plays? 4. What role in the play Hamlet did Shakespeare act himself? 5. Did Shakespeare consider himself an actor, playwright or poet? 6. Which were more innovative, his words or plots? 7. Where did the majority of his subjects or stories come from?

5 CLOZE Complete the following quote. Shakespeare s audiences on their during every. reverberated with Shakespeare s. A simple Why is this true to fact? SCENA QUARTA 31:00-37:55 Coat of arms to draw a parallel tantalizing Glimpse to give up Hags to rage Longings to urge on Expressions Profundity old man Rage 1. What were Shakespeare s players called after James I took the throne? 2. What was the significance of the tragedy? 3. What happened in 1613? 4. What did this mean for Shakespeare? 5. What relationship developed between Shakespeare and his daughters as relevant through his plays? Quote: Our revels now are ended. These, our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air... We are such stuff as dreams are made on. How does this quote reflect Shakespeare s life at the time?

6 SCENA QUINTA 37:55 - end Bequest to generate enduring Folio to interweave fertile Heir to make out a will jealousy Legacy to retire profound Manipulator severest Renewal Expressions sorrow Rift red-light district Simplicity Will 1. How did Shakespeare retire? 2. Who was the benefactor of his will? 3. What did Shakespeare separate for his wife? 4. What is noteworthy about the date of his death? 5. What was Ben Johnson s reaction to Shakespeare s death? 6. Why may we never have known about his plays? CLOZE Complete the following epitaph, written by Shakespeare for himself: Good for sake forbear to the dust here blessed be the that these and cursed he moves. Complete the following poem by Ben Johnson and the commentary that follows it. While I thy writings to such, as man nor can praise much soul of the. The, delight, the wonder of stage thou art a without a and art alive still while thy doth and we have wits to read and to.

7 these efforts we never have William Shakespeare s plays. Eighteen out of the plays gathered in the had never been. plays, including MacBeth, Twelfth Night and The might been lost. In the first film of a Shakespeare play was made staring as King John. Since then, countless and television films of his plays have been and throughout the world. In every his plays performed in the theaters to packed. For an actor, the highest accolade is to the great Shakespearean heroes. After the video: Translate the following quotes into modern language maintaining the original meaning. Use slang or idioms whenever necessary. Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. - MacBeth 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 leafs have all too short a date. - Sonnet My Mistress s eyes are nothing like the sun. Coral is far more red than her lips red. 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. - Sonnet To be or not to be; that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of trouble