Shakespeare 1 Flashcards
Where Born
Stanford-On-Avon, England
Plays written
37
Sonnets written
154
Who acted for and principal playwright for
Lord Chamberlains Men
Playwright
Person who writes plays
Where most plays took place + when built
1566 Global Theater
3 Types of Plays Written
Tragedies, Comedies, Histories
Comedy
Ends happily
Tragedy
Most people die
Histories
Based on real life events
When Romeo and Juliet written
1595
What type Romeo and Juliet is
Tragedy
Theater description
No artificial lighting, roofless, is a courtyard surrounded by 3 levels of galleries, wealthy got benches, groundlings stood in pit
Groundlings
Poor people who stood in pit to watch plays
Plays Info
For everybody, rich people in play spoke in iambic pentameter, poor people in play spoke in prose,
How crowd interacts
Throw tomatoes and yell and scream if play is bad
Stage
Platform extended into pit
Dressing + storage rooms
Above and behind stage
Second level gallery
Upper stage
Trap door
Where ghosts are at
Heavens
Up sides