1. Understanding Shakespeare

2. Shakespeare’s Audience – Elizabethan Theatre – Not very popular with local merchants, the Puritans, the Church, and to some degree, the government – Think critically: why might this be? – 1 st Elizabethan Theatre – James Burbage – 2 sons: Richard and Cuthbart  Globe – Stage: raised platform surrounded by the audience on 3 sides

3. Shakespeare’s Audience – Attendees: – Nobles – Merchants – “Groundlings” – Significance: Shakespeare wasn’t respected during his time so he needed to cater his plays to entertain the groundlings – BAWDY Puritans

4. Shakespeare’s World – Renaissance – Rebirth into thinking – Man became the center of the universe (created in the image of God) – Idea came from the fact that man creates children – What’s the woman’s role in all of this? – Development of codpiece

5. Shakespeare’s Craft – Bawdy: – Why? – When does it disappear? – Engage the masses  transition to poetry when the audience is hooked on the story – Prose – Usually spoken by groundling character or nobles behaving badly – Blank Verse – Un-rhyming verse written in pentameter – iambic pentameter – Couplets – End of long speech or character dialogue – Signifies something important being said But, woe is me, you are so sick of late, So far from cheer and from your for mer state, That I dis trust you. Yet, though I dis trust, Dis com fort you, my lord, it no thing must …..

6. Shakespeare’s Language – Unfamiliar words – Words out of use – Words that are still in use but not how a different meaning – Words used to build a dramatic world – Syntax – Words out of “normal” order to create iambic pentameter – If confused, look first for the placement of subject and verb – “he goes” vs. “goes he” – Omits words

7. Shakespeare’s Language – Wordplay – Puns – Play on words that sound the same but have different meanings or on a single word that has multiple meanings – Metaphors – Shakespeare makes play on words in which one object or idea is expressed as if it were something else

8. The Shakespearean Sonnet (take notes now)

9. What are the characteristics of a Shakespearean sonnet? – 14 lines – 3 quatrains (4 lines each) – 1 couplet (2 lines) – Follows the same rhyme scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGG – Each line is written in iambic pentameter – Each line consists of 10 syllables. – The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs. – An iamb= unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable

10. Examples of iambic pentameter? baBOOM/ baBOOM/ baBOOM/ baBOOM/ baBOOM How many syllables? Pattern?

11. Examples of Iambic Pentameter When I / do COUNT/ the CLOCK/ that TELLS/ the TIME When IN/ dis GRACE/ with FOR/ tune AND / men’s EYES – How many syllables per line? – Pattern?

12. – How many syllables per line? – 10 – Pattern – Unstressed stressed

13. Summary – Write your summary now of 3-4 sentences.