Part IV: Shakespeare

Question 1

Shakespeare’s companies

Answer 1

Leicester’s men (patronized by Lord Strange)

Lord Chamberlain’s Men -> Kingsmen

Question 2

Histories

Answer 2

• Julius Caesar
• Anthony and Cleopatra
  Influence: Plutarch

Influence: Holinshed Chronicles

Tétralogies:

• Henry VI + Richard III
• Richard II + Henry IV + Henry V

Question 3

Comedies

Answer 3

(Exposition, rising action, turning point, falling action, denouement)

Stoke characters, blocking figures, helpers, fool, pedant

Question 4

Tragédies

Answer 4

• Twelfth Night
• Hamlet
• Romeo and Juliet
• Hamlet
• Othello
• Macbeth
• Anthony and Cleopatra
• King Lear
• Titus Andronicus

Question 5

Romances or tragicomedies

Answer 5

Blackfriars

• The Winter’s Tale
• Cymbeline
• The tempest

Dispersed family + Nature’s power + Music + Miraculous

Question 6

Folio

Answer 6

1623

John Heminges + Henry Connell