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Poetry

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Concentrated language produced through rhythm and sound. Sometimes called verse

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Prose

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Language of everyday speech.
The language used when speaking or writing

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Metrical Writing/Meter

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Meter is the use of a regular rhythmic pattern in language

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Iambic Pentameter

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Blank Verse
A form that normally uses a metrical pattern called unrhymed Iambic Pentameter
Unrhymed- the words at the end of a line do not rhyme

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Iamb

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a unit of speech that contains one undressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Pays attention to syllables, not words

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structure per line

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10 syllables every line, 5 emphasized

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rhyme scheme

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ABABCDCDEFEFGG

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Sonnet 18

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About comparing his lover to a summer’s day, but actually praises poetry

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Why Shakespeare used Iambic Pentameter

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Shakespeare didn’t use it in every line, and some of his works are even written in prose. He wrote in iambic pentameter because it was pretty common to write this in the Elizabethan Era. The rhythms in blank verse most closely resembled those in our everyday speech.

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Shakespeare’s birth

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April 1564

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Shakespeare’s death

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April 23, 1616, possibly from too much wine & pickled herrings

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Childhood home

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  • Lived in Stratford-upon-Avon
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Shakespeares parents

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John & Mary Arden Shakespeare, dad was a glove maker and politician, mom was daughter of a wealthy land owner

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School

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Probably attended King’s New School as a child, dropped out in middle school when his father lost his fortune. Was studying rhetoric, logic, history, and latin four long hours

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Love life

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Married Anne Hathaway in 1582

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Children

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Had twins, Hamnet and Judith, but Hamnet died from the plague at eleven, along with one older child Susanna

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Lost years

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Sometime between 1583-1592. He was 19-28 and moved to London and starteer working in a theater, while his family stayed home. No one knew where he was and what he was doing.

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Shakespeare’s theatres

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Member and later owner of the famous group the Lord Chamberleins (later called King’s Men). Invested in the building of the Globe Theater in 1599.

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Plays

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Total: 38, 14 Comedies, 10 histories, 10 tragedies, 4 romances, and a couple other collaborations

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Sonnets

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154

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Buried

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Buried at Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. His grave had a flat stone tab saying anyone who moved his bones would become cursed

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Early Modern English

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The language Shakespeare spoke, not very different from modern english except for some old holdovers. Used both rural and urban words

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Inspirations for his work

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Only 2 of his plays are actual original stories. All others are based on already told stories, which he rearranged, including Greek mythology.

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Coined phrases

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  • critical
  • majestic
  • dwindle
  • one fell swoop
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Shakespearean Stanza

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Not invented by Shakespeare, follows the ABABCDCDEFEFGG pattern

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Sonnets addressed to the “dark lady”

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Sonnets 127-152

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“Love is not time’s fool”

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Love will always last, it is stronger than and transcends time, it doesn’t answer to it

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Why are people so fascinated by Shakespeare

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He understood human emotion, and how to portray that through writing and plays.

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The first time his name appeared in print

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In 1583 when someone was insulting him in writing

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London during Shakespeare’s life

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Dramatic contrasts, rich vs. poor,
everyone went to plays
anyone could catch the plague

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The groundlings

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The people who had to sit on the ground at the theatre because they only payed a penny for their seats. There was no bathroom, and people were often affected by the weather so the ground would be muddy.

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When were plays performed

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During the afternoon, because there was no electricity

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Clothing in theatre

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Everyone wore earth colored clothes, except the rich(they donated clothes to plays) so the actors would be wearing bright colors. Also helped tell the stories in the play by reflecting status

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London officials and the theatre

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They didn’t like it because they thought it was prey to “moral diseases”, where pickpockets, prostitutes, and poor people could gather. It also spread the plague. They would come and shut down the plays.

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Women in theatre

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Womens main job was to get married for money and alliances, their only education was in the house/women’s roles, barely any rights
It was forbidden for them to appear onstage because it was immoral

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Queen Elizabeth in 1593

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Had been on the throne forty years

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Queen Elizabeth and Plays

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Loved the theatre, and liked going to relieve stress

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Why Queen Elizabeth didn’t marry

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Was a workaholic.
Gave her more rights than most women, and she could use it in negotiations as bait

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Romeo and Juliet in Shakespeare’s career

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Very important, it mixed comedy and tragedy in a play which was something no one had seen before

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inversion

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rearranging word order to create new rythms or emphasize a particular word

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archaic language

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an outdated form of language, heavy meaning sorrowful

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omission

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omit a whole word or part of a word to create rhymes

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classical allusions

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an indirect reference to something from Greek/Roman mythology

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Biblical Allustion

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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/playing with the sound of words to achieve particular affects. For example amusement, clarification or explanation. An important part of the economy of Shakespeare’s texts

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paradox

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a self-contradictory or absurd statement, that when explained could be true

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