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Categories of Shakespeare’s plays

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Tragedy, comedy, history

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Shakespeare’s 4 great tragedies

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Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and Othello

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Shakespeare’s most widely taught plays

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Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar

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2 Shakespearean comedies

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Taming of the Shrew

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2 Shakespearean histories

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Henry V, Richard III

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Theatre he made famous

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The Globe

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River running through London

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The Thames

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Home town

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Stratford on Avon

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Wife

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Anne Hathaway

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Plays MUST be

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Italicized (underlined if written)

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Ben Jonson

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Contemporary who said “Shakespeare is not of an age but for all time”

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Monarch on the throne at the beginning of career

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Elizabeth I

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Monarch on throne at the end of his career

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James I (James VI of Scotland)

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Shakespeare’s theatrical groups

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Lord Chamberlain’s Men

King’s Men

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Scholars who believe Shakespeare wrote his atrributed plays

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Stratfordians

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Group of scholars believing Edward DeVere wrote the Shakespeare attributed plays

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Oxfordians

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Earl of Oxford many people believe wrote the Shakespeare attributed plays

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Edward DeVere

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Original collection of Shakespeare’s works

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First Folio

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Name given to the common people who stood in “the pit” for plays

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Penny Knaves/Groundlings

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Aside

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Line spoken by actor to the audience that no one on stage hears

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Soliloquy

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Dramatic (usually long) speech given by a characte to himself, usually revealing his thoughts or reflections

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Sonnet

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A poem of 14 rhyming lines

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Couplet

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2 lines of poetry that usually rhyme

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Exposition

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Beginning/part of the story that reveals the basics of the tale

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Rising action

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Increase in the conflict/intensity of the conflict

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Crisis/turning point

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A significant event or change occurs that will affect the outcome of the story

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Falling action

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What comes after the climax and leads to the conclusion

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Denouement

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Resolution/end of the story

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History

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English Monarch

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30
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Comedy

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Happy ending, usually marriage

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Tragedy

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Death

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Blank verse

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Poetry with regular meter (often iambic pentameter), but no rhyme. Most of Shakespeare’s plays are this

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Iambic pentameter

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Shakespeare’s sonnets, unstressed then stressed syllables, 5 metrical feet (iamb pairs)

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Quatrain

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Stanza of 4 lines, often with an alternating rhyme

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Rythm

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Regular pattern of something

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Meter

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A way of organizing and counting beats in poetry

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“A little more…

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than kin, and less than kind”-Hamlet

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“Oh that this..

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too too solid flesh would melt”-Hamlet

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“Frailty,…

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thy name is woman”-Hamlet

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“Neither a…

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borrower nor a lender be”-Polonius

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This above all,…

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to thine own self be true

42
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“The dram…

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Of evil”

43
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“Something is rotten…

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in the state of Denmark”

44
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“There are more things…

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in heaven and earth, Horatio / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy”-Hamlet

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“Brevity…

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is the soul of wit”-polonius

46
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“More matter…

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with less art”-queen

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“Words,…

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words, words”-Hamlet

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“Though this be…

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madness, yet there is method in’t”-Polonius

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“There is / nothing…

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either good or bad but thinking makes it so”-Hamlet

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“What a piece…

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of work is a man”-Hamlet

51
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“I am but mad…

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north-north west: when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw”-Hamlet

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“The play’s…

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the thing / wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king”-Hamlet

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“O heavy…

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burden”-king

54
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“To be…

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or not to be”-Hamlet

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“Ay, there’s…

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the rub”-Hamlet

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“What dreams…

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may come”-Hamlet

57
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“Thus conscience…

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does make cowards of us all”-Hamlet

58
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“Get thee…

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to a nunnery”-Hamlet

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“O what a noble…

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mind is here overthrown”-Ophelia

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“O woe…

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is me (I)”-Ophelia

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“Madness in great ones…

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must not unwatched go”-stuncle Claudius

62
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“Suit the action to the…

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word, / the word to the action”-Hamlet

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“Purpose is…

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but a slave to memory”-player king

64
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“Our thoughts are…

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ours, and their ends none of our own”-Player king

65
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“It would cost you…

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a groaning to take off mine edge”-Hamlet

66
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“Tis now the very…

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witching time of night”-Hamlet

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“May one be…

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Pardoned and retain the offense”-Claudius

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“For use almost can…

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change the stamp of nature”-Hamlet

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“I must be cruel…

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only to be kind”-Hamlet

70
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“Hoist with…

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his own petar(d)”-Hamlet

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“O ‘tis most…

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most sweet / When in one line two crafts directly meet”-Hamlet

72
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“Good night,…

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mother”-Hamlet

73
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“Alas, poor

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Yorick!”-Hamlet

74
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“Sweets to the

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sweet, farewell”-Queen Gertrude

75
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“Goodnight sweet prince…

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and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest”-Horatio

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“The rest…

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is silence”-Hamlet

Honors English 2 (8 decks)

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