Will In The World Flashcards
Discovery space
The back of the stage, that would concealed characters could be revealed or discovered.
Richard Burbage
An acting company that Shakespeare became chief playwright for two decades.
Shakespeare’s 3 children
Susanna, Judith, and Hamnet.
Hamnet died at 11 years old
King James l/ the king’s men
James I ascended the throne and granted his royal patronage to Shakespeare’s company, which then became known as “ The King’s Men”
Macbeth
One of Shakespeare’s most memorable plays.
Tragedy
Common features of Shakespearean tragedies?
The Fatal Flaw: The hero are fundamentally flawed. The weakness that ultimately lead to their down fall.
The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall: fall of a nobleman, a man with excessive wealth and power that will eventually lead to downfall.
External Pressures: The hero often falls victim to external pressures.
The 4 qualities of Shakespearean comedy usually end with?
Comedy through language
Love
Complex plot
Mistaken identities
Anne Hathaway
William Shakespeare’s wife
She was pregnant with Shakespeare’s child when they got married.
The 3 types of plays that Shakespeare wrote
Tragedies, Comedies, and Histories
A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
One of Shakespeare’s comedies
Pit
An area on the ground, by the stage for groundlings who paid a penny to watch.
What defines a Shakespearean history?
They are distinct in subject matter only, not in style.
The histories provide an equal measure of tragedy and comedy.
Iambic pentameter
Meter that Shakespeare nearly always used when writing.
Most of his plays were written in iambic pentameter
Ten syllables in each line
Prose
The everyday English spoken by people of the time.
Globe Theater
Shakespeare’s company opened it.
Built by a carpenter called Peter Smith.
Fire broke out in it.
A second one was built
The rhythmic structure of iambic pentameter?
Ten syllables in each line
Five pairs of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables
Groundlings
A spectator or reader of inferior taste, such as a member of a theater audience who stood in the pit below the stage.
The 3 proposed alternate identities for Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Edward de Vere
Sir Francis Bacon
Iambus
Each pair of of syllables
Proscenium
Apron stage,
A projection strip of stage for playing scenes in front of the curtain.
Stratford-Upon-Avon
William Shakespeare’s home town
Hut
An area above the stage where special effects could be used.
What are the 4 qualities of Shakespearean histories?
- Set Against Medieval English history
- Not Historically Accurate
- Provides Social Commentary
- Explores The Social Structure Of The Time
