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Shakespeare's birth and death
1564 & April 23, 1616
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Poppers
actors that were not respected
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Where was Shakespeare born & died?
Stratford on Avon
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Lord Chamberlain's Men
(The King's Men)
- preformed for royalty
- shakespeare's company
- preformed at Globe Theater
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Groundlings
- people who couldn't afford seats
- stood on ground in front of stage
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4 types of plays shakespeare wrote
- comedy
- history
- tragety
- romance
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poetry
- meterical writing
- blank verse
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iambic pentameter
- 1st unstressed (u)
- 2nd stressed (-)
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why did shakespeare writing in iambic pentameter?
it is the most pleasing rythem to our ear
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blank verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter
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real life
something that has/or could have happened
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stage life
- just an illusion
- doesn't actually happen
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drama
a literary form that imitates life
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Dramatic Conventions
- give information to audience they couldn't otherwise get from the presentation of action
- help experience willing suspension of disbeliefs
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soliloquy
1 actor "converses" with himself about inner feelings
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aside
character speaks directly to the audience without the other characters on the stage hearing (promotes audience involvement)
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dramatic irony
the audience knows something that the characters do not
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tragedy
- serious action which leads to a disastrous conclusion for the protagonist(s)
- an imitation of an action that is complete, whole, & of certain magnitude
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introduction
gives background, setting, & characters
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complication
- rising action
- building of tension
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climax
- peak of action & intensity
- turning point for protagonist(s)
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falling action
- new direction for main characters
- continues suspense
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catastrophe
- moment marking the protagonist(s) tragic failure
- (usually death)
- shows nubility of protagonists
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courtly love
- idealized love
- women put "on a pedestal"
- the way it is supposed to be (rules)
- Paris->Juliet
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- unreturned
- Romeo->Rosaline
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pun
a play on words that has more than 1 meaning at the same time
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oxymoron
- a figure of speech in which 2 dissimilar words are put together to form a common phrase
- "hate/love"
- "pretty ugly"
- "jumbo shrimp"
- "seriously funny"
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juxtaposition
placing 2 unlike things/scenes near eachother to highten the contrast of each
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mood
- emotional tone of a STORY(not character)
- can use emotional adjectives to describe
- (hound: moor->melocolny)
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characterization
- what they say & think
- what they do
- what others say & think about them
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setting
- time & place of a story
- shakespeare uses words & characters actions to describe: ask for torch=nighttime
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imagery: metaphor
comparing 2 unlike things useing is/are
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imagery
rich, descriptive language that creates a picture
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simile
comparing 2 unlike things using like/as
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symbolism
- object that has a literal meaning & suggests another
- wedding ring=love
- gravestone=death
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what was the sorce of the play?
Arthur Brooke poem: The Tragicall History of Romeo & Juliet
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When was early modern english?
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