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(shakespeare notes) Avon:

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suburb of birth

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: England was a ….: a form of gov with a ….

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monarchy; single leader

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: during shakespeare’s time, power shifted from one leader to the next with

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relative speed

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: henry VIII (8th) ruled from …, was succeeded by his … son, …, who died … years later

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1509-1547; sickly; edward; six

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: and what followed Edward’s death was a …. for the throne

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bloody scramble

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: Henry VIII had 3 children:

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Mary, Elizabeth, Edward

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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Edward named …. queen, … his sisters Mary and Elizabeth

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Lady Jane Gray; denouncing

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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Mary eventually won many … and … Lady Jane, who had been the de facto monarch for only … days

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supporters; deposed; nine

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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Mary (aka …) ruled for … years until her death in …

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Bloody Mary; five; 1558

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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Everyone had to convert to … due to Henry VIIII

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protestantism

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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Mary was …, everyone had to convert back to …. murdered anyone who was still …

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Catholic; Catholicism; protestant

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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Queen Elizabeth I ruled from …. (the first … monarch since Henry VIII)

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1558-1603; stable

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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Queen Elizabeth I refused to …, knowing that to do so would mean the … of her power

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marry; relinquishing

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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Queen Elizabeth I credited with defeating the … in the famous …

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Spanish Armada; Battle of Gravelines

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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Queen Elizabeth I enjoyed the …. and donated …. to them

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theater; costumes

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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: King James VI (and I)- King of … (1567-1625) and King of … (1603-1625)

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Scots; England

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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: King James VI (and I)- A …. (authored Daemonologie)

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scholar

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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: King James VI (and I)- historians hold conflicting opinions of his

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tenure

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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: King James VI (and I)- was one of the intended targets for the infamous …

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Guy Fawkes “Gunpowder Plot”

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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: King James VI (and I)- Became Shakespeare’s …., and the Bard and his associates happily renamed their company ….

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patron; The King’s Men

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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: King James VI (and I)- financial supporter of

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the arts

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- duration:

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1347-1750

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- over the course of these centuries, the plague ebbed and flowed across …, the …, and portions of …

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Europe; Middle East; Asia

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- Symptoms: large, tumor-like … and the appearance of … on the legs, arms, hands that would … and turn it …

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growths; spots; kill the flesh; black

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- the only “cure” was to lock the infected

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away in their own home

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- plague doctors wore … that had either …/…. to avoid “….”: didn’t know about ….

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masks; flowers/incense; death smells; germs

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- doctors used …. to handle sick people

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sticks

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- some doctors/fakes negotiated to receive …/…/…

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room; board; pay

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- the plague had numerous social effects: …, …, …, …, … shortages, and an intensifying of the age’s perennial …

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looting; violence; despair; unemployment; food; poverty

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- London Plague Regulations of 1538 (reissued in later years with modifications): infected were to be locked in their homes for ….; the streets were to be kept ….; …. were to be expelled; … and …. were to be restricted/banned entirely

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one month; clean; vagrants; funerals; plays

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- london plague regulations of 1538: vagrants expelled to avoid …, funerals/plays restricted: too many people in close … to each other → ….

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spreading diseases; proximity; spreads disease

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- the plague had a direct impact on Shakespeare’s profession: when the death toll reached a certain number, city officials …., popular belief held that the plague was a …. from an …

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closed the theaters; punishment; angry God

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- medical knowledge was severely …. during this time

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deficient

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- no equivalents to …, no …, no understanding of “…” or need for …

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hospitals; medicine; germs; antiseptics

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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- physicians were inherently … in the face of the plague, and this period in history would have been a highly … and …. experience for anyone in the medical field

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helpless; stressful; terrorizing

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(shakespeare notes) in 1564 (year of Shakespeare’s birth), some …. people died in …. out of a total population of …

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254; Stratford-upon-Avon; 800

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(shakespeare notes) in 1563, over …. londoners died

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20,000

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(shakespeare notes) 1593: … died

1603: … died

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15,000; 36,000

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: life expectancy was incredibly low (under …) and infant mortality was ….

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30; extraordinarily high

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: in poorer London parishes, only about half of the children survived to the age of … (and aristocratic children fared only a little …)

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15; better

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: parents likely to lose … or … children, would have developed a certain level of ….
However, numerous accounts of …

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three; four; detachment; intense grief

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: Shakespeare and his contemporaries had an intimate knowledge of both … and .., because both events took place in the …

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death; birth; home

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: even when the plague was dormant, the food supply in England was ….: one bad harvest could cause serious …, even …

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erratic; hardships; starvation

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: Danse Macabre: morbid …, grotesque ….

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celebration; life after death

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: the poor bore the brunt of the burden: …, low …, … increases

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inflation; wages; rage

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: diets were severely deficient in vital … and ….

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vitamins; minerals

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: lower class subsisted on … or … food types, usually low in …

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one; two; protein

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: upper class disdained … and …, gorging instead on …

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green vegetables; milk; meat

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: illnesses due to …. were rampant

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vitamin deficiencies

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: beer provided some, but no much, relief from …, and Elizabethans (including children) drank almost …

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pain; incessantly

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: home brewing aside, enough beer was produced and sold in England for every man, woman, and child to consume

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40 gallons a year

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: despite these conditions, the English population during Shakespeare’s time was steadily

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growing

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: population growth was most noticeable in …, where the … were located

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London; playhouses;

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: wages were around … in London

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50%

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: shakespeare’s success was due in large part to this …/…. boom

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demographic/economic

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: between 1567 and 1642, the London playhouses entertained close to

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50 million guests

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-religious turmoil: Henry VII converted to …., forcing the populate to convert: this was because he couldn’t … his wife under ….

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protestantism; divorce; catholicism

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-religious turmoil: King Edward VI: raised

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protestant

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-religious turmoil: Queen Mary I: …, as was her mother, …

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Catholic; Catherine

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-religious turmoil: Queen Elizabeth I: Raised

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Protestant

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-religious turmoil: Mary was notoriously brutal in her reimplementation of the ….

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Heresy Acts

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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-religious turmoil: Elizabeth, though she refused to return the .. and … stripped from the monasteries, attempted to strike …. She was brutal in …

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wealth; properties; common ground; punishment

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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare’s Life-Family: William’s father, John, moved to Avon in the mid…. century, where he became a successful …, …, …, and .. in … and other …

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sixteenth; glover; landowner; moneylender; dealer; wool; agricultural goods

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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare’s Life-Family: around 1557, John married …, the daughter of a … and well-…

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Mary Arden; prosperous; connected farmer

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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare’s Life-Family: John was appointed …

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ale taster

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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare’s Life-Family: 1576 John started losing his esteem and

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moderate wealth

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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare’s Life-Family: 1586: john replaced on … possibly because he was a ..

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.council; Catholic

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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare’s Life-Family: 1596: John’s application for renewal of “…” was renewed

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coat of arms

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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare’s Life-Family: 1601: the year before John’s death, he was included in the list of those qualified to speak on behalf of

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Stratford’s rights

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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare’s Life-Family: Shakespeare’s siblings: Joan (older sister assumed to have …), …, …, …, and Joan (younger sister- names were often …)

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died; Gilbert; Richard; Edmund; recycled

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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare full name: Gulielmus filius ohannes Shakespeare born

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April 23, 1564

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(shakespeare notes) as a child, William would have witnessed a number of “…” common in the political sphere of which his father was a part

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theatrical traditions

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(shakespeare notes) voracious

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reader

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(shakespeare notes) stratford was well-known for its … and … school

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excellent; free

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(shakespeare notes) Main purpose of such schools in Middle Ages was to train future

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clerics

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(shakespeare notes) literacy at the time was not viewed as …., but … changed this notion, placing a great emphasis on the necessity of literacy and its intrinsic connection to ….

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necessary; Protestantism; salvation

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(shakespeare notes) at the core of Stratford’s curriculum was the study of …, which gave young William access to numerous classical …

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Latin; Latin texts

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(shakespeare notes) shakespeare, more than literate, was well schooled in … and …

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philosophy; classics

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(shakespeare notes) Anne Hathaway: November 1582: William (…) married Anne Hathaway (…) and their daughter, …., was baptized … months later

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18; 26; Susanna; 6

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(shakespeare notes) Anne Hathaway: February 2, 1585: William’s son and daughter, Hamnet and Judith, were baptized in stratford. Hamnet died at the age of … when William was already living most of the year in …

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11; London

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(shakespeare notes) Anne Hathaway: 1597: william, evidently successful, purchased …., the second … in Stratford

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New Place; largest house

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(shakespeare notes) Anne Hathaway: 1601: William’s father …., followed by his mother …. later

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died; seven years

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(shakespeare notes) Anne Hathaway: April 23, 1616: william shakespeare …, after presumably retiring to stratford …

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died; three years prior

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(shakespeare notes) Anne Hathaway: a … now grows where New Place once stood

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garden

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(shakespeare notes) Career: Between 1585 and 1592, William’s existence seems to slip out of the

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records

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(shakespeare notes) Career: the only documentation from 1592 is from John Aubrey- rival … and ….- who stated that William was a … in the country and an unusual … who made a … whenever he ….

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playwright; gossip; school teacher; apprentice butcher; speech; killed a calf

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(shakespeare notes) Career: by 1592, william had already arrived on the highly competitive

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London theater scene

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(shakespeare notes) Career: william was listed among the … had … in plays

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actors; minor roles

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(shakespeare notes) Career: 1594: william became a member of the play company …. (….) and stayed with this company

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Servants to the Lord Chamberlain (the King’s Men)

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(shakespeare notes) Career: 1599: William formed a … comapny and raised sufficient funds to lease a site and have the ….

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joint-stock; globe theater built

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(shakespeare notes) Career: the globe was built with an …. to utilize …

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open roof; daylight

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(shakespeare notes) Career: globe’s structural composition was symbolic- stage represented …, trapdoor represented …, balcony and above represented … (a pulley was attached to the rafters to raise/lower …. or …)

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earth; hell; heaven; angelic figures; characters

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(shakespeare notes) Career: all theaters were decorated with … that displayed .. which represented that specific … (globe had the …. holding a …)

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flags; symbols; playhouse; titan Atlas; globe

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(shakespeare notes) Career: other flags would represent type of play showing: black→…, white→ …

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tragedy; comedy;

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(shakespeare notes) Career: no intermissions: actors spoke

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much faster

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(shakespeare notes) Career: shakespeare’s plays were often accompanied by

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music

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(shakespeare notes) Career: there was a preparation (or “…”) room behind the stage

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green

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(shakespeare notes) Career: there were no prefabricated …., but there were sometimes …

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scenes; tapestries

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(shakespeare notes) Career: there were a lot of …, and all actors had to take … and …. lessons

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props; dancing; fencing

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(shakespeare notes) Career: …. are in every play, and these were largely employed for the people in the …– also known as the …

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puns; pit; groundlings

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(shakespeare notes) Career: puns meant for …, …. jokes, wanted to include …

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lower class; lewd; entire audience

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(shakespeare notes) Career: if it rained, groundlings would get … but aristocrats would not

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wet

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(shakespeare notes) legacy: credited with writing …. plays, … sonnets, and …. long narrative poems

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38; 154; 2

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(shakespeare notes) legacy: his works have been translated into every

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major living language

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(shakespeare notes) legacy: his writing forged many of the …. and …. used today

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words; phrases

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(shakespeare notes) legacy: interest in his writing dwindled during the … and …. centuries, but …. repopularized his works in the … century, making them a staple in literature

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17th; 18th; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; 19th;

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(shakespeare notes) legacy: many of the story arcs he made popular are re-envisioned in today’s

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films and plays

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(shakespeare notes) conspiracy: some critics believe that shakespeare did not …. the plays commonly attributed to him

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author

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(shakespeare notes) conspiracy: the fact that he was fairly … and “….” counted against him

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ordinary; upper middle class

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(shakespeare notes) conspiracy: most critics attribute the plays to various … from higher …. and prestigious …, claimin that william could have no knowledge of the royal court or aristocracy based on his ….

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writers; social classes; educations; station

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(shakespeare notes) conspiracy: however, because Shakespeare was credited as the author at the time, it would have required a conspiracy on a ….t o accomplish such a charade

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massive scale

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(shakespeare notes) conspiracy: funerary monument in …. in …

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Holy Trinity Church; Avon

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(shakespeare notes) conspiracy: wrote his own epitaph: “

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cursed be he that moves my bones”

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(shakespeare notes) conspiracy: theater considered … (another reason why playhouses were closed during plague times)

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evil

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Shakespeare was likely raised …., and a … is a prominent theme in many of his plays/sonnets

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Catholic; struggle of faith

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