History Of Drama and Shakespeare Flashcards
Shakespeare’s Birth Place
Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare’s Birthday
4-23-1564
Shakespeare’s Father
John Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s father’s profession and political office
Leather dresser and bailiff
Shakespeare’s mother
Mary Arden
Shakespeare’s wife and age
Anne Hathaway
26 years old when married
Scandal surrounding Shakespeare’s marriage
The 18-year old Shakespeare got the 26-year old Anne Hathaway pregnant.
Anne Whateley
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
Shakespeare’s children (name, spouse, death)
Hamnet: died at 11
Susanna Hall: John Hall, 7-11-1649
Judith Quiney: Thomas Quiney, 2-9-1662
Sir Thomas Lucy
Shakespeare was caught poaching deer off of his land
Robert Greene’s infamous assessment of William Shakespeare
Upstart crow
Shakespeare’s acting group
Lord Chamberlin’s Men
Shakespeare’s theater
The Globe
Shakespeare’s will
He changed his will before his death, leaving nothing but the second best bed to his wife
Shakespeare’s epitaph
“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”
The first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays
First Folio
Peripatetic Entertainers
Traveling
Troubadours and Minstrels: sang and told stories
Jongleurs: above and danced
Morris Dancers
Entertainment during Middle Ages
Performed in court and at festivals
Dancers dressed in elaborate colorful costumes
Quern Quaentis
A priest in white to represent the angel and three additional priests representing the three Mary’s who visited the empty tomb
Guild
Association of people in the same trade
Had responsibility of staging the plays
Corpus Christi
Body of Christ
On feast day, guilds would assemble dramatic production of the life of Christ
Yorke Cycle
Consisted of 50 Christian plays
Morality Plays
Allegories that explored Christian Truth in daily lives
Everyman
Everyman meets Death who declares Everyman must soon face Judgement. He realizes he must depend on Beauty, Strength, Intelligence, and Good Deeds
Mystery Plays
A less humanistic approach in which morality plays grew out of
The Theatre
James Burbage and Dr. John Dee built it
Held 3000 people
Blood sports were also held here
Flags
Advertising for plays were illegal, so flags were used to signal that there was a play and what type of play
Groundling
A commoner at a play
On floor
Eye level with stage
The Great Chain of Being
Lowest Class: inanimate elements, liquids, and metals
Vegetative Class: plants
Sensitive Class: shellfish, dogs, horses
Humankind
Air
Blood
Sanguine
Serene unruffled
Fire
Yellow bile Choleric Bold Exuberant Quick to anger
Water
Phlegm
Foolish
Idle
Earth
Black bile Melancholy Stubborn Insolent Sad Slow
Microcosm - macrocosm
Correspondences created analogies
What is happening inside a tiny dollhouse is also happening at the same time in the real world outside
Anachronism
When something appears in literary work that is not in its correct historical or chronological time
Malapropism
A confused use of words in which an appropriate word is replace by one with a similar sound
Monosyllables
Single syllable words
Pun
Play on words
Shared lines
A line is divided between two or more characters
Stychomythia
Dramatic dialogue
Two characters exchange rapid single lines partly echoing another’s previous utterances
