Shakespeare- Terms and Info: Carver
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 April 23, 1564 | When was Shakespeare born? |
| Stratford-Upon-Avon, England | Where was he born? |
| April 23, 1616 | When did he die? |
| college | What did he never attend? |
| Anne Hathaway 26 | Who did he marry and how old was she? |
| 18 | How old was he when he got married? |
| 3 | How many kids did they have? |
| a play-wright | In 1592, he appeared in London and he established himself as... |
| The Lord Chamberlin's Men | He acted and wrote for... |
| Queen Elizabeth | The Lord Chamberlin's Men was protected by.. |
| The King's Men | Once she died, the name changed to |
| patron | Companies tried to find a rich.... to supply money |
| 8-10 men | A company was usually made up of |
| poet, actor, and playwright | Shakespeare was a... |
| 37, tragedies, comedies, histories | How many plays did he write and what were the categories? |
| golden age | Under the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, England flourished and the... of the English stage was during Shakespeare's life |
| River Thames | The Globe Theater was across what river in 1599? |
| the plague | What forced theater closings? |
| 3 levels, 3,000 people | The Globe Theater was and open-air, amphitheater with how many levels and how many people could fit? |
| elaborate scenery | The stage was not entirely bare, but there was no.. |
| groundlings or the penny public | The people who stood on the ground were called |
| movies | Plays were just as popular then as what is today? |
| Dialogue and language | What was more important that the visual spectacle? |
| in the afternoon | Because of no stage lighting, plays were put on.. |
| women | These people could not act in the plays, and could only attend if masked |
| 5 | how many acts divided into scenes? |
| blank verse | the play is mostly written in |
| feud | Montagues and Capulets are in a ... |
| Verona, Italy late 13th Century | Setting |
| words | What did Shakespeare make up? |
| honor, duty, loyalty, politics, family, and passion | Romeo and Juliet is not just a love story, it is also about |
| Arthur Brooke's Poem- The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet | sources for the play... |
| youth vs. age, deception and its consequences, faulty decision-making, light vs. darkness, fate vs. freewill, public vs. private | Themes and Motifs- |
| introductory material or information | exposition |
| the events of a dramatic or narrative plot preceding the climax | rising action |
| the events of a dramatic or narrative plot following the climax | falling action |
| a great, often sudden calamity | catastrophe |
| when the audience knows something the actors don't know | dramatic irony |
| a character with traits contrasting to those of another character, usually the protagonist (Benvolio a foil to Romeo) | foil |
| one who is two dimensional and represents a single quality (fiery Tybalt) | flat chracter |
| a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary work | theme |
| two words that sound the same but mean something different | pun |
| a word or expression that can be understood in two ways | double entendre |
| a figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas or terms are combined | oxymoron |
| unrhymed iambic pentameter | blank verse |
| a speech said alone on stage | soliloquy |
| humorous or farcical interlude in a serious literary work | comic relief |
| 14 lines in iambic pentameter and the rhyme scheme is ababcdcdefefgg | Shakespearean Sonnet |
| an extended metaphor | conceit |
| Aristotle | Who says that a tragedy is the imitation in dramatic form of an action that is serious and complete with incidents that arouse empathy in the viewr |
| noble | the chief character are ... people and their actions are ... actions |
| tragic flaw | The protagonist is neither a perfect good man nor a bad man; his misfortune is brought upon him by some error of judgment, which may be influenced by his... |
| reversal | the plot involves a ...; a change from one state of affairs within the play to its opposite |
| an | if |
| anon | I'm coming; soon |
| hie | hurry |
| hither | here |
| art | am; are |
| I pray thee | please |
| aye | yes |
| knave | villain |
| doth | does; do |
| marry | indeed |
| ere | before |
| sepulcher | tomb |
| fain | gladly |
| sirrah | term of address for an inferior |
| fair | beautiful |
| shrift | confession |
| ghostly | spiritual |
| shroud | cloth use to wrap a body for a funeral |
| give me leave | excuse me |
| soft | wait a moment |
| good den | good afternoon |
| thither | there |
| good morrow | good morning |
| wherefore | why |
| happy | fortunate |
| whither | where |
| heavy | sorrowful |
| wilt | will |
| hence | away; from here |
| would | wish |
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