2. Started out performing with “The Lord Chamberlain’s Men”
Background
Lived
wrote 37 plays
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
about 154 sonnets
Started out performing with “The Lord Chamberlain’s Men”
Guess which one is the movie version!?!?

3. Background Information
Born Stratford-on-Avon
Well-to-do, affluent while alive
Most quoted, other than the Bible

4. Comedies: light and amusing, usually with a happy ending
Tragedies: serious dramas with disastrous endings
Histories: involve events or persons from history
Types of Plays

5. The Globe Many playwrights with nowhere to “play”
Barn turned into theatre
Original Globe was 3 stories and held about 3000 people.
Although most of Shakespeare’s plays were held there, he only owned 12% of the theatre.
The Globe

6. The Globe All classes of people attended plays there.
No roof so that they had sunlight.
Thus, plays had to be during the day.
People often skipped work to go.
Was not allowed to be built in the city of London because crowds often became rowdy.

7. THE GLOBE

8. THE GLOBE

9. The Elements of the Theatre and Plays
Costumes were often the company’s most valuable asset
Costumes were made by the company, bought in London, or donated by courtiers
The Elements of the Theatre and Plays
Costumes

10. It would have been indecent for a woman to appear on stage Acting
Only men were permitted to perform
Boys or effeminate men were used to play the women
It would have been indecent for a woman to appear on stage
Acting
The Double Switch! Girl is Boy and Boy is Girl!

11. Wealthy people got to sit on benches
Spectators
Wealthy people got to sit on benches
Groundlings, poor people, had to stand and watch from the courtyard
Women not allowed (had to dress up as men to attend)
Threw rotten vegetables at bad performance
There was much more audience participation than today
Will Ferrell is the most famous alumnus of the comedy improvisational group called “The Groundling” based in Los Angeles

12. London During Elizabethan Era
Poor Sewer System
Bathing considered dangerous
Body odor strong
London During Elizabethan Era
Personal hygiene/health
Queen Elizabeth

13. London During Elizabethan Era
Diseases
Childhood diseases
Children often died before 5 years
Small Pox
Bubonic Plague

14. London During Elizabethan Era
Bear-baiting
Races
Gambling
Music
Drinking/socializing
Prostitution
Entertainment

15. London During Elizabethan Era
Clothing
One set used all year long, rarely washed
Underclothing slept in, infrequently changed
Clothes handed down from rich to poor

16. Life's A Stage:
Terms for Drama

17. Foreshadowing
is the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature.
Friar Lawrence warns Romeo that his romance with Juliet is rash and hurried.
His warnings are an example of Foreshadowing.

18. Imagery
is language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching.
Queen Mab is described in great detail—she’ll visit you while you dream!

19. Irony
Dramatic Irony
is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
For example, the audience knows that Juliet took a sleeping potion and isn't really dead. Romeo's suicide affects the audience even more because of this knowledge.

20. is when an author says one thing and means something else.
Irony
Verbal Irony
is when an author says one thing and means something else.
"Two households, both alike in dignity.” When you first read this, you may think that the two families are pretty dignified or honorable. As the play goes on, however, you realize that each family is violently competitive. They are similarly undignified.

21. is a discrepancy between the expected result and actual results.
Situational Irony
is a discrepancy between the expected result and actual results.
Shakespeare's play, the young lovers do end up spending eternity together, but not in the way the audience had hoped.

22. Monologue
A long speech made by one person.

23. A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.
Soliloquy
Juliet speaks to the audience about her love of Romeo from outside of her balcony ; she doesn’t know that he is listening in!

24. Aside
A piece of dialogue intended for the audience and supposedly not heard by the other actors on stage.
Romeo listens in on Juliet while she talks on the balcony and talks to the audience (or himself) about whether he should reveal himself to her or continue to eavesdrop!

25. Stage Action
the stage direction is entered into the dialogue.

26. Rapper’s Delight: hip hop a hippie a hippie To the hip hip

27. Sonnet
a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Show me your GRILLE, Shakespeare!!!!!

28. is rhymed words at the ends of lines.
Rhyme Scheme
is rhymed words at the ends of lines.
My name is Jay-Z
And now you can see
How I rhyme like a bee!
Zoom, Zoom, STING!

29. is a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
Quatrain
is a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

30. is a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines
Heroic Couplet
is a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines
You wait a couple months then you gon' see You'll never find nobody better than me

31. is a line of poetry that doesn’t rhyme.
Blank Verse
is a line of poetry that doesn’t rhyme.
How could you be so Dr. Evil, you bringin' out a side of me that I dont know... I decided we weren't gon' speak

32. is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.
is the repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds.
is the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels.
I said a hip hop a hippie a hippie To the hip hip hop, a you don't stop The rockin' till the bang man woogie say up jumped the boogie to the rhythm of the boogity beat

33. Pun
is the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound.
Yo, Tiger: When drinking, don't drive. Don't even putt !!

34. Metaphor
Simile
is the comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be" and not using like or as.
is the comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
All right stop, Collaborate and listen Ice is back with my brand new invention Something grabs a hold of me tightly Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly Will it ever stop? Yo! I don't know Turn off the lights and I'll glow To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal Light up a stage and watch me jump like a candle.

35. is giving human qualities to animals or objects.
Personification
is giving human qualities to animals or objects.
My bling was a talkin’
And was a walkin’
My gold was a showin’
And they was a known’
That my moneys be talkin’

36. is putting two contradictory words together.
Oxymoron
is putting two contradictory words together.
She was an open secret;
Giving freezer burn to me
I was the living dead underneath
Yo, SHE HURT ME TOO GOOD!!!

37. A Love Story for the Ages
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
A Love Story for the Ages

38. A Brief Introduction Romeo and Juliet
Written by Shakespeare in 1594 or 1595.
The play focuses on the following themes:
Love and Hate
Age and Maturity
Fate
Dreams,
Omens and forebodings (foreshadowing)

39. The Play is a Tragedy:
A narrative about serious and important actions that end unhappily.
Play ends with the death of main characters

40. Establishes the setting Introduces the main characters
Explains background
Introduces the characters’ main conflict
Romeo and Juliet: Act I
Exposition

41. A Very Brief Plot Summary
Act I
Overview
Act I – Shakespeare establishes an on-going feud between two families, the Montagues and Capulets.
Juliet’s father decides that even though Juliet is only 13 it is time to find her a husband.
Romeo (a Montague) and Juliet ( A Capulet) meet and fall in love.

42. – –– The Montagues Introspective; upset over being scorned by Rosaline
Romeo’s parents
Friend of Romeo; acts as a peacemaker; level-headed
The Montagues
Romeo
Lord and Lady Montague
Benvolio – ––

43. The Capulets
Juliet
Lord and Lady Capulet
Nurse
Tybalt
Sampson and Gregory
Innocent; her hand in marriage is being sought after by Paris (despite her age only being 13!)
Juliet’s parents
Juliet’s attendant; crude and humorous
cousin to Juliet; violent and hot-tempered; looking for trouble
Servants to the Capulets

44. Friend of Romeo and relative of the Prince; funny and outgoing; loud
Mercutio
Paris
Prince
Friar Laurence
Friend of Romeo and relative of the Prince; funny and outgoing; loud
Holds rank of Count; seeks Juliet’s hand in marriage
Upset over the behavior of the two families; vows that death will be the penalty if his streets continue to be disturbed
Doubts whether it is wise for Romeo to seek out Juliet;
Helps Romeo in his quest to marry Juliet, because he hopes it will bring the two families together and end the hate

45. The Prologue:
A Look Into the Future

46. Two Households
Capulets
Juliet’s House
Montagues
Romeo’s House

47. Both Alike in Dignity
Both families are wealthy and important
“Dignity,” however, ends up having a double meaning: they are rich, but we learn they lack dignity in many respects

48. In fair Verona, where we lay our scene
Verona is the setting of the play. It takes place in Verona, Italy

49. From Ancient grudge break to new mutiny
The Montagues and Capulets have disliked each other many generations
The source of this dislike is unknown
The two families have had their “grudge” renewed and have been fighting

50. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean
Civilians are being killed in the crossfire of the families
Civilians of Verona are fighting each other

51. From the fatal loins of these two foes
Both families have children (Romeo and Juliet) who end up falling in love with each other
The word “fatal” points to the tragic ending of the play

52. A pair of star cross’d lovers take their life
Both Romeo and Juliet meet a disasterous end: both commit suicide