1. With Your Table Write down everything you know about Shakespeare He lived in two centuries—what were they?

3. With your table, write everything you know about Ancient Rome Winning table gets prizes!

4. William Shakespeare 1554-1616

5. I. Time Period A.The Elizabethan Age B.The Renaissance 1. Artistic flourishing

6. Michelangelo’s David 1504, Italy

7. II. What He Wrote A.Narrative Poems B.Sonnets 1. 14-line poems that follow a specific rhyme scheme C.Plays 1.Tragedies—end in death (King Lear, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet) 2.Comedies—end in marriage (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) 3.Historical Tragedies—based on accounts that would have been familiar to Shakespeare’s audience. Also end in death (Julius Caesar, Richard III).

8. Literary Terms for Drama 1. Monologue: A long speech spoken by one character (i.e., the Queen Mab speech) 2. Soliloquy: A long speech a character speaks while alone (i.e., Juliet’s “Romeo, Romeo speech”) 3. Aside: A brief remark a character makes without the other characters being able to hear (i.e., under her breath, Juliet defends Romeo in front of her mother) 4. Couplet: Two lines of poetry that rhyme 5. Quatrain: Four lines of poetry that rhyme

9. 6. Iambic Pentameter: Words written in such a way that every other syllable is emphasized (“In FAIR verONa WHERE we LAY our SCENE”) 7. Wordplay: When a writer employs two possible meanings of a word or two words that sound similar (Romeo says that “you have nimble soles, but I have a soul of lead.”) 8. Extended Similes: a comparison between unlike things that continues for several lines

10. Shakespeare and Irony 1.Dramatic Irony: the audience knows something the characters do not (Romeo does not know that Juliet is really alive) 2. Situational Irony: the opposite of what is expected occurs (Romeo and Juliet are in love even though they come from rival households) 3. Verbal Irony: When someone says the opposite of what is true (sarcasm) (Mercutio teasingly describes Benvolio as quarrelsome)