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History Of Drama and Shakespeare Flashcards

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Shakespeare’s Birth Place

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Stratford-upon-Avon

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Shakespeare’s Birthday

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4-23-1564

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Shakespeare’s Father

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John Shakespeare

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Shakespeare’s father’s profession and political office

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Leather dresser and bailiff

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Shakespeare’s mother

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Mary Arden

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Shakespeare’s wife and age

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Anne Hathaway

26 years old when married

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Scandal surrounding Shakespeare’s marriage

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The 18-year old Shakespeare got the 26-year old Anne Hathaway pregnant.

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Anne Whateley

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There were two marriage licenses for two William Shakespeares. One William Shakespeare got married to Anne Hathaway, the other Wm. Shaxepeare got married to Anne Whateley

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Shakespeare’s children (name, spouse, death)

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Hamnet: died at 11
Susanna Hall: John Hall, 7-11-1649
Judith Quiney: Thomas Quiney, 2-9-1662

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Sir Thomas Lucy

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Shakespeare was caught poaching deer off of his land

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Robert Greene’s infamous assessment of William Shakespeare

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Upstart crow

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Shakespeare’s acting group

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Lord Chamberlin’s Men

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Shakespeare’s theater

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The Globe

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Shakespeare’s will

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He changed his will before his death, leaving nothing but the second best bed to his wife

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Shakespeare’s epitaph

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“Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare to digg the dust encloased heare. Blest be ye man yt spares the stones and curst be he yt moves my bones”

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The first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays

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First Folio

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Peripatetic Entertainers

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Traveling
Troubadours and Minstrels: sang and told stories
Jongleurs: above and danced

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Morris Dancers

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Entertainment during Middle Ages
Performed in court and at festivals
Dancers dressed in elaborate colorful costumes

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Quern Quaentis

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A priest in white to represent the angel and three additional priests representing the three Mary’s who visited the empty tomb

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Guild

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Association of people in the same trade

Had responsibility of staging the plays

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Corpus Christi

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Body of Christ

On feast day, guilds would assemble dramatic production of the life of Christ

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Yorke Cycle

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Consisted of 50 Christian plays

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Morality Plays

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Allegories that explored Christian Truth in daily lives

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Everyman

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Everyman meets Death who declares Everyman must soon face Judgement. He realizes he must depend on Beauty, Strength, Intelligence, and Good Deeds

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Mystery Plays

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A less humanistic approach in which morality plays grew out of

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The Theatre

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James Burbage and Dr. John Dee built it
Held 3000 people
Blood sports were also held here

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Flags

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Advertising for plays were illegal, so flags were used to signal that there was a play and what type of play

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Groundling

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A commoner at a play
On floor
Eye level with stage

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The Great Chain of Being

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Lowest Class: inanimate elements, liquids, and metals
Vegetative Class: plants
Sensitive Class: shellfish, dogs, horses
Humankind

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Air

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Blood
Sanguine
Serene unruffled

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Fire

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Yellow bile
Choleric
Bold
Exuberant
Quick to anger
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Water

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Phlegm
Foolish
Idle

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Earth

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Black bile
Melancholy
Stubborn
Insolent
Sad
Slow
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Microcosm - macrocosm

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Correspondences created analogies

What is happening inside a tiny dollhouse is also happening at the same time in the real world outside

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Anachronism

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When something appears in literary work that is not in its correct historical or chronological time

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Malapropism

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A confused use of words in which an appropriate word is replace by one with a similar sound

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Monosyllables

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Single syllable words

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Pun

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Play on words

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Shared lines

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A line is divided between two or more characters

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Stychomythia

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Dramatic dialogue

Two characters exchange rapid single lines partly echoing another’s previous utterances

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