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Shakespeares Narrative Poems
Venus and Adonis; Rape of Lucrece; The Passionate Pilgrim; The Phoenix and Turtle; A Lover’s Complaint
Sonnet Total
154
What is the source material for Macbeth?
Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (Holinshed’s Chronicles)
The lost work of Shakespeare?
Cardenio
When another author writes in someones work
Interpolations
Word occuring only once in a body of text
Hapex legomenon
Longest hapex legonmenon
Occured in ‘Love’s Labor Lost’ (t honorificabilitudinitatibus)
Shakespeare Birth
April 23, 1564
Shakespeare’s Death
April 23, 1616
A Shakespeare Contemporary
Christopher Marlow, born in the same year, died much earlier
Wife
Anne Hathaway
Where was Hathaway born?
Shottery
What was Hathaway left in the will?
Second Best Bed
Dark Lady
Emilia Lanier
John Shakespeare’s birth place
Snitterfield
What did John do
was a brogger– illegal wool trader
Significant things about Shakespeare’s mum
botn in Wilmcote; last name Arden for the Arden editions
Who is Edmund Shakespeare?
Eighth child, buried in Southwark Cathedral
Where do direct decendants of Shakespeare come from?
Joan Shakespeare and Willian Hart
Where was Shakespeare born?
Stratford-upon-Avon; Henly Street
Shakespeare’s kids
Susannah, Hamnet, Judith (Hamnet died)
Who did Susannah marry
John Hall; lived in Hall’s Croft three minutes from Holy Trinity Church where Shakes is buried
Shakespeare’s granddaughter
Elizabeth, Susannah’s daughter, married Thomas Nash
Sir Thomas Lucy
Owned Charlecote Park; Shakes was allegedly poaching deer on the land; left town
Who did Shakespeare study
Ovid, Juvenal, Martial, Horace, Seneca, Plautus, and Terence
Shake’s favorite
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Shakespeare’s Epitaph
Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here
Blessed be the man that spares these stones
And cursed be he that moves my bones
What was someone who went to University called?
Wit
University Wits
Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, etc
Who is Ben Johnson?
sons of Ben or ‘Tribes of Ben,; would gather in taverns and record conversations
How did Christoper Marlowe die?
Killed in a tavern brawl, stabbed in the eye
What did Marlowe write?
Dr. Faustus, Tamburlaine, and Jew of Malta (Barrabas)
Henry Wriotheselt
3rd Earl of South Hampton, patron of the arts and Shakespeare
Roderigo Lopez
A Jewish-Portuguese doctor, executed in Elizabeth’s reign for plotting
Henry Carey
Lord Hudson/Lord Chamberlain; supported Shakes– Lord Chamberlain’s Men
James Burbage
1576, named the first theatre The Theatre
Burbage son
Richard Burbage, star of the Lord Chamberlain’s men
Lord Admiral’s Men
Ben Johnson is cheif writer; Edward Alleyn star actor; preform in The Rose
First Folio
Put together by John Heminge and Henry Condell in 1623
Shakespeares clowns
Will Kempe, Robert Armin, Richard Tarlton; Kempe preformed Kempe’s jig from London to Norwich
Francis Meres
First contemporary to recognize Shakespeare’s greatness
Ben Johnson said…
“sweet swan of Avon” & “small Latin and less Greek” & “not of an age, but for all time”
Robert Greene said…
“upstart crow”
David Garrick said….
“bard of all bards was a Warwickshire Bard”
What was Elizabethean popcorn?
Hazelnuts
Plague Bill
Theatres closed due to plague; waited until a certain number of people died
People who stood on the ground
Groundlings
Best place to be seen, couldn’t see the play
Lord’s rooms
The money box
Box Office
Bankside Entertainment
Bear baiting, Pubs, Bowling, Prostitution
Bears
Harry Hunks and George Stone
Only indoor theatre for Shakespeare
Blackfriars Theater
Henry’s wives
Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived
Cleans the royal arse
The Groom of the Stool
Boy who is punished in place of the prince
Whipping boy
Humors
Blood, Phlegm, Yellow Bile, Black Bile
Quadrivium
Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, Astronomy
Trivium
Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric
Petty School
School for little kids
A wooden paddle book used at Petty Schools
Hornbook
Gun Powder Plot
Guy Fawkes, November 5, 1605
Heliocentric vs. Geocentric
Copernicus
Site of hangings
Tyburn gallows with the Triple Tree
Old Globe Architect
Peter Street; float the pieces across to bankside
New Globe
Theo Crosby (architect) & Sam Wanamaker
When did the theaters close?
1642
What theater was used to recreate the Globe?
Swan Sketch Johannes de Witt
Best Shakespeare Library in the US?
Folger Shakespeare Library
Where is Shakespeare Buried?
Holy Trinity Church; Seven Ages of Man stained glass window from ‘As You Like It’
Where did Shakespeare Retire?
New Place
Who is the bane of Shakespeare lovers?
Reverend Francis Gastrell, had New House razed because of visitors
Who revived Shakespeare’s reputation?
David Garrick
Who put together the First Folio?
John Heminge & Henry Condell
