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1
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What town was William Shakespeare born in?

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Stratford-upon-Avon

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When was Shakespeare born?

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April 26, 1564

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What is prose?

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Prose is normal language

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What is poetry?

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Poetry is concentrated language through sound. It is also known as verse. It was produced through sound and rhythm.

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When did Shakespeare die?

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April 23, 1616

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Metrical Writing/Meter

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Regular and natural rhythmic pattern in language.

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Iamb

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Unit of speech that contains one unstressed(no emphasis) syllable followed by a stressed(emphasis) syllable

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Iambic Pentameter

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Iambic: contains iambs
Pentameter: 5
Iambic Pentameter: poetry using 5 iambs

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Blank Verse

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Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter

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Who were Shakespeare’s parents?

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John and Mary Arden Shakespeare

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Why were words so crucial in an Elizabethan play?

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Words were one of the few aspects of his plays that he could make extraordinary because they didn’t have many props, costumes, lighting schemes, or access to scenery.

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What did Shakespeare’s father(John) do for a living?

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He was a glove maker and local politician.

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Who was Shakespeare’s mother (Mary) the daughter of?

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A wealthy landowner.

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What was Shakespeare’s school like?

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He attended King’s New School in Stratford. His school days were long and rigorous teaching rhetoric (for dumb people, that means speaking & writing), logic, history, and Latin.

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When did Shakespeare drop out of school?

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“Middle school” when his father lost his fortune.

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What was the structure of the sonnets?

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Quatrain 1, Quatrain 2, Quatrain 3, Couplet

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What was the rhyme scheme of the sonnets?

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abab, cdcd, efef, gg

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What is sonnet 18 about?

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It starts out praising the beauty of a person. Then, it says that this praise cannot be given without poetry. From this the sonnet starts praising poetry itself and explains the immortality of poetry.

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What do the last 2 lines of sonnet 18 suggest?

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As long as men live and poetry is alive then poetry will give life, glory, and beauty to men.

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Why did Shakespeare use iambic pentameter?

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It was common to write plays in blank verse during his time. Playwrights chose this form because the iambs closely resembled our natural rhythm of speech.

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True or False: Shakespeare invented the Shakespearean stanza(rhyme scheme).

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False, he was just the best at it

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What don’t we know about the speaker in Shakespeare’s sonnets?

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We don’t know if the speaker is Shakespeare or an imagined figure.

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How many sonnets are there?

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154

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Which sonnets are addressed to the young man and his beauty?

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1-127

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Which sonnets are addressed to the dark lady and talks about the shame that goes along with it?

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127-154

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What did Shakespeare mean when he said “Love is not time’s fool”?

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He is saying that love is beyond time and that love is timeless and immortal.

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Inversion

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Shakespeare often rearranged the word order to create new rhythms or to emphasize a particular word. Ex. Him I hit.

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Archaic Language

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More ancient or older language often used with inversion.

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Omission

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Shakespeare might omit a whole word or a part of a word to create rhymes. Ex. Heard the news?

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Petrarchan Love

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The love is perfect and intense to one but is unreturned making petrarchan love a sorrowful topic.

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Classical Allusion

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An indirect reference to something from Greek/Roman mythology.

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Biblical Allusion

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An indirect reference to something from the Bible.

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Pun

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A play on words and the sounds of those words to create amusement, thought provocation, clarification, or explanation for the audience.

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Paradox

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A seemingly false or self-contradictory statement but when investigated can be proven true. Ex. What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young.

35
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When did Shakespeare marry? Who did he marry?

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He married in 1582 to Anne Hathaway.

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Who were Shakespeare’s children?

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He had one daughter(Susanna) and twins Hamnet and Judith. Hamnet died in the plague

37
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What time frame did people speculate Shakespeare moved to London and what were these years called?

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1583 - 1592 “The Lost Years”

38
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What did he work on in London?

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Theatre

39
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Which company did he part-own?

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King’s men

40
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When did the Globe Theatre open?

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1599

41
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What are the sources of inspiration for Shakespeare’s work?

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Pyramus and Thisbe, Luigi Da Porto, Matteo Bandello, Arthur Brooks

42
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When was the Globe Theatre burned down?

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1613

43
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How many plays are attributed to Shakespeare?

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  1. (14 comedies, 10 history, 10 tragedies and 4 romances)
44
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What were his TWO major poems?

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Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece

45
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Where is Shakespeare buried and what is the significance of his gravestone?

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The Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. The gravestone is flat and bears an epitah which threatens a curse to anyone who touches his bones.

46
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What does “legend say” Shakespeare died of?

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He drank too much wine and ate too many pickled herrings.

47
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What language did Shakespeare speak?

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Early Modern English(some aspects of middle and old english)

48
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Why is Shakespeare still popular hundreds of years after his death?

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He understood what made people tick/human emotions. He used different levels of diction in his plays to entertain all classes of people.

49
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Who are the groundlings?

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The poor people who sit on the unfinished floor without a roof in front of the stage during a play.

50
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Who was the Queen during Shakespeare’s life?

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Elizabeth I

51
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How did the queen feel about the plays?

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She was pleased because she thought they were written for her.

52
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Why didn’t the Queen marry?

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It was more useful to be a single queen because she was able to promise marriage and take it away. the Queen was a smart woman.

53
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Who wrote Pyramus and Thisbe?

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Ovid

54
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Pyramus and Thisbe was a story from what poem?

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Metamorphoses

55
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What famous story is derived from the plot of Pyramus and Thisbe?

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Romeo and Juliet

56
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What animal covered Thisbe’s veil in blood?

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Lion

57
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What tree changed the color of its fruit to honor the dead lovers?

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Mulberry (Bush)

58
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How were Pyramus and Thisbe able to communicate through most of their life?

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A crack in a shared wall

59
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Why did Pyramus kill himself?

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He saw Thisbe’s bloody veil and thought she had been killed

60
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When did Shakespeare’s name first appear in print?

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1592

61
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Why were plays performed in the afternoon?

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They needed sunlight because they had no special effects.

62
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What was the significance of clothing during the age of Shakespeare?

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Clothing was representative of social status. Common people wore earth colored wool or linen. Upper class wore vibrant colors with expensive fabrics.

63
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Who went to the plays?

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Everyone. Social class didn’t matter.

64
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How did London officials view theatres?

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They didn’t like them because it attracted “moral disease”(prostitutes and thieves). Also, because it attracted working men away from their jobs.

65
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What was the main “job” for women?

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Marriage, they were not allowed to contribute to society with a real job nor were they allowed to be in plays.

66
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Why was Romeo and Juliet such an important play in the career of Shakespeare?

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It combined both love and tragedy. It allowed people to connect more.

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What was important about the stage costumes?

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They were colorful but only because they were donations of wealthy benefactors. They were older equivalent of the special effects that we have today. People in drab clothes would be whisked away seeing this amazing story being portrayed in such vibrant colors.

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