1. Introduction to Shakespeare

3. William Shakespeare Born 1564, died 1616 Wrote 37 plays
Wrote over 150 sonnets
Actor, poet, playwright
Known as The Bard
Bard is essentially just another word for "poet" or "storyteller," usually from middle ages Europe.

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

11. The Theatre The Globe Theatre: Open ceiling Three stories high
No artificial lighting
Plays were shown during daylight hours only
Held people tightly packed
It was shaped like a 16 sided polygon

13. Spectators Wealthy people got to sit on benches
The poor (called “groundlings”) had to stand and watch from the courtyard
There was much more audience participation than today
All but the wealthy were uneducated/illiterate

16. Actors Only men and boys
Young boys whose voices had not changed played the women’s roles
It would have been indecent for a woman to appear on stage

17. Twelfth Night OR What You Will

18. Twelfth Night of Christmas
The Twelfth Night of Christmas is January 6, the Feast of Epiphany (Christian Feast of the Magi).
In Renaissance times, Twelfth Night was the last day of Christmas revels.
The purpose of allowing social roles to be turned upside down was to "channel potentially destructive insubordination into playacting and thereby promote harmony" (Bevington 326).

20. Twelfth Night or What you will
First Title
The original title was “What you will”
Second Title
Twelfth Night after Christmas

21. Setting to the Play Very romantic and exotic In a land called Illyria
Ancient region
Found near Italy
Today: Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, Regusa

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