1. AP. Dr. Arbaayah Ali Termizi BBL 4308
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Semester 1,2018/2019
AP. Dr. Arbaayah Ali Termizi
BBL 4308
Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

2. Main objectives of the course are:
By the end of this course, students are able to: 
explain their understanding of Shakespeare's work as well as Elizabethan period time (C2)
analyze the use of elements, motives, and conventions in literature in Shakespeare’s plays (C4, CTPS) 3.
create sketches of Shakespeare to show that the work continues to influence contemporary society and culture (A5, TS)
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3. Distribution of course work
Essay (20%)
Short project (20%)
Mid semester examination (30%)
Final examination (30%)
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4. Nature of coursework
Essay (20%) and short project (20%) – guidelines is discussed in ppt slides Week 6
Short project (20%) involves writing script for sketch of Shakespeare’s play
Mid semester examination* (30%) – will cover topics from slides in Week One to Week Five
Final examination* (30%) – will cover topics from slides in Week Seven to Week 10 which will be shared later
Both written exams will be subjective in nature
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5. Who is William Shakespeare?

6. The background Who is William Shakespeare His works His background
His family
His friends
His period
* Point 1 to 6 can be read in detail in Unit One of the latest BBL3208 PJJ module
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7. Shakespeare is …. A writer An entrepeneur An artist A genius An actor
A Dramatist
A writer
An entrepeneur
An artist
A genius
An actor
A poet
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8. A bit on the negative side
FFRAUD
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10. The many images of Shakespeare…
The Stratford Monument (1616)
The Soest Engraving (1636)
The Droeshout Engraving (1623)
The Marshall Portrait (1640)
The Hilliard Miniature (1588)
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11. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The Chandos Portrait (1610)
Attributed to John Taylor
Possessed by Duke of Chandos
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12. Contemporary representation of Shakespeare
Joseph Fiennes playing Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love
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13. Quoted Phrase "All the world's a stage,
and all the men and women merely players:
they have their exits and their entrances;
and one man in his time plays many parts...
"As You Like It, Act II, Scene 7, 139–42.
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14. Shakespeare’s Ancestry
Briefly it should be mentioned that, during the sixteenth century, there were many families with the name Shakespeare in and around Stratford.
"Shakespeare" appears countless times in town minutes and court records, spelled in a variety of ways, from Shagspere to Chacsper.
Unfortunately, there are very few records that reveal William Shakespeare's relationship to or with the many other Stratford Shakespeares.
The Bard's paternal grandfather was Richard Shakespeare (d. 1561), a farmer in Snitterfield, a village four miles northeast of Stratford abd record shown that he was a tenant farmer.
Richard Shakespeare worked on several different sections of land during his lifetime, including the land owned by the wealthy Robert Arden of Wilmecote, Shakespeare's maternal grandfather.
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15. Shakespeare’s Parents
Shakespeare's father, John, came to Stratford from Snitterfield before 1532 as an apprentice glover and tanner of leathers.
John Shakespeare later prospered and began to deal in farm products and wool.
Sometime between 1556 and 1558 John Shakespeare married Mary Arden, the daughter of the wealthy Robert Arden of Wilmecote and owner of the sixty-acre farm called Asbies.
We assume neither John nor Mary could write -- John used a pair of glovers' compasses as his signature while Mary used a running horse -- but it did not prevent them from becoming important members of the community.
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16. John Shakespeare was elected to a multitude of civic positions, including
ale-taster of the borough (Stratford had a long-reaching reputation for its brewing) in 1557,
chamberlain of the borough in 1561,
alderman in 1565, (a position which came with free education for his children at the Stratford Grammar School),
high bailiff, or mayor, in 1568, and
chief alderman in 1571.
* Due to his important civic duties, he rightfully sought the title of gentleman and applied for his coat-of-arms in 1570
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17. John Shakespeare’s Declining Reputation
Applied for coat-of-arms
Behind in his taxes
Mortgaged Mary’s estate
Fined 40 pounds for missing a court date
Removed from the board of alderman
Owned only his house at Henley Street
Fined for not attending church
Re-applied coat-of -arms and granted
Reinstated on the town council
(due likely to the success of William in London)
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18. Shakespeare’s family coat of arm
On October , by permission of the Garter King of Arms (the Queen's aid in such matters) "the said John Shakespeare, Gentlemen, and ... his children, issue and posterity" were lawfully entitled to display the gold coat-of-arms, with a black banner bearing a silver spear (a visual representation of the family name "Shakespeare").
The coat-of-arms could then be displayed on their door and all their personal items.
The coat-of-arms appears on Shakespeare's tomb in Stratford. 
The motto was "Non sanz droict" or "not without right”.
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19. Shakespeare’s birthplace (Stratford-upon-Avon)
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20. Shakespeare’s birth
The baptismal register of the Holy Trinity parish church, in Stratford, shows the following entry for April 26, 1564: Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakespeare.
The actual date of Shakespeare's birth is not known, but, traditionally, April 23, St George's Day, has been Shakespeare's accepted birthday, and a house on Henley Street in Stratford, owned by William's father, John, is accepted as Shakespeare's birth place.
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21. Shakespeare’s Siblings
William Shakespeare was indeed lucky to survive to adulthood in sixteenth-century England.
Waves of the plague swept across the countryside, and pestilence ravaged Stratford during the hot summer months.
Mary and John Shakespeare became parents for the first time in September of 1558, when their daughter Joan was born andshe was baptized in Stratford on September 15, and succumbed to the plague shortly after.
Their second child, Margaret, was born in 1562 and was baptized on December 2. She died one year later.
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22. Shakespeare’s Siblings
The Shakespeares' fourth child, Gilbert, was baptized on October 13, 1566, at Holy Trinity. Records show that Gilbert Shakespeare survived the plague and reached adulthood, becoming a haberdasher, working in London as of 1597, and spending much of his time back in Stratford. Gilbert Shakespeare seems to have had a long and successful career as a tradesman, and he died a bachelor in Stratford on February 3, 1612.
In 1569, John and Mary Shakespeare gave birth to another girl, and named her after her first born sister, Joan. Joan Shakespeare accomplished the wondrous feat of living to be seventy-seven years old -- outliving William and all her other siblings by decades. Joan married William Hart the hatter and had four children but two of them died in childhood.
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23. Shakespeare’s Siblings
Undoubtedly already euphoric that Joan had survived the precarious first few years of childhood, the Shakespeares' joy was heightened with the birth of their fourth daughter, Anne, in 1571, when William was seven years old.
Unfortunately, tragedy befell the family yet again when Anne died at the age of eight.
The sorrow felt by the Shakespeares' over the loss of Anne was profound, and even though they were burdened by numerous debts at the time of her death, they arranged an unusually elaborate funeral for their cherished daughter. Anne Shakespeare was buried on April 4, 1579.
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24. Shakespeare’s Siblings
In 1574, Mary and John Shakespeare had another boy and they named him Richard, probably after his paternal grandfather. Richard was baptized on March 11 of that year, and nothing else is known about him, except for the fact that he died, unmarried, and was buried on February 4, a year and a day after the death of Gilbert Shakespeare.
Mary gave birth to one more child in They christened him on May 3 and named him Edmund, probably in honor of his uncle Edmund Lambert. Edmund died in not yet thirty years old. He was buried in St. Saviour's Church, in Southwark, on December 31 of that year.
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25. Shakespeare’s Education
Shakespeare probably began his education at the age of six or seven at the Stratford grammar school, which is still standing only a short distance from his house on Henley Street and is in the care of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Although we have no record of Shakespeare attending the school, due to the official position held by John Shakespeare it seems likely that he would have decided to educate young William at the school which was under the care of Stratford's governing body.
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26. The schoolmaster Sir Hugh Evans tests Will Page on his Latin in a scene from 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'
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27. Shakespeare’s Education
Like all of the great poets and dramatists of the time, Shakespeare learned his basic reading and writing skills from an ABC, or horn-book.
“a primer framed in wood and covered with a thin plate of transparent horn. It included the alphabet in small letters and in capitals, with combinations of the five vowels with b, c, and d, and the Lord's Prayer in English.” (Robert Speaight, Shakespeare: The Man and His Achievement)
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28. A closer look at the hornbook
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29. Shakespeare’s Education
"... any boy caught speaking English at school was punished ..." (Educating Shakespeare)
As was the case in all Elizabethan grammar schools, Latin was the primary language of learning.
Although Shakespeare likely had some lessons in English, Latin composition and the study of Latin authors like Seneca, Cicero, Ovid, Virgil, and Horace would have been the focus of his literary training.
One can see that Shakespeare absorbed much that was taught in his grammar school, for he had an impressive familiarity with the stories by Latin authors, as is evident when examining his plays and their sources.
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30. Shakespeare’s Education
Even though scholars, basing their argument on a story told more than a century after the fact, accept that Shakespeare was removed from school around age thirteen because of his father's financial and social difficulties, there is no reason whatsoever to believe that he had not acquired a firm grasp of both English and Latin and that he had continued his studies elsewhere.
Shakespeare's daily activities after he left school and before he re-emerged as a professional actor in the late 1580s are impossible to trace.
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31. Shakespeare’s Marriage and Children
Recordings in the Episcopal register at Worcester on the dates of November 27 and 28, 1582, reveal that Shakespeare desired to marry a young girl named Anne.
Shakespeare, a minor at the time, married Anne Hathaway, who was twenty-six and already several months pregnant.
After her marriage to Shakespeare, Anne left Hewland Farm to live in John Shakespeare's house on Henley Street, as was the custom of the day.
The Shakespeares' first child was Susanna, christened on May 26th, 1583, and twins arrived in January, 1585.
They were baptized on February 2 of that year and named after two very close friends of William -- the baker Hamnet Sadler and his wife, Judith.
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32. Anne Hathaway’s Cottage (before she married Shakespeare)
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33. In short…
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34. Texts/references needed for class
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Shakespeare Appropriated in 60 Minutes by Arbaayah Ali Termizi (Penerbit UPM)
Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Merchant of Venice *
* All the above plays can be downloaded from
(I only accept quotations taken from this edition)
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