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Mary Arden

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Shakespeare’s mother

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William Shakespeare

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Playright, poet, author, actor, landowner, part owner of the Globe theater

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John Shakespeare

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Shakespeare’s father, glovemaker

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Stratford-upon-Avon

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Shakespeare’s birthplace

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Anne Hathaway

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Shakespeare’s wife

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Susanna, Hamnet, Judith

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Shakespeare’s kids

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Lord Chamberlain’s Company of Players

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Shakespeare was a member of this acting group under Elizabeth I

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The King’s Men

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The same acting group as Lord Chamberlain’s Company of Players; name changed under King James I

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London

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Renaissance city; encouraged the arts

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Renaissance

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Rebirth, allowed Shakespeare to explore the arts

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Globe Theater

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Most famous theater in London; destroyed by fire but rebuilt

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Swan

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Theater in London

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Rose

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Theater in London

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Soliloquy

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Actor alone on stage - speaking his thoughts aloud (talking to himself)

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Asides

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Saying something to the audience that other actors pretend not to hear

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Fencing

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Audience loved duels; actors had to be good at this skill

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Tumbling

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Actors needed to fall on stage and through doors

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Penny Public / groundlings

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Poor people who paid one penny to stand in “Pit” (court / open yard) to watch plays

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Sonnets

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Shakespeare is famous for writing these -
14 line poems written in iambic pentameter (2 syllables, 5 beats)
Topic is usually love

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Puns

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Humorous play on words

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Rhyming tags

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Two lines at the end of the act / scene to indicate a new scene is about to begin

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Prologue

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Introduction to play

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Henry VIII

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King who had six wives; Elizabeth I came from his line

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Elizabeth I

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Queen who ruled during Shakespeare’s time, encouraged the arts, Shakespeare performed many times for her

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Elizabethan

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Name of era during which Shakespeare lived and wrote, named after Elizabeth I

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