Understanding Shakespeare Shakespeares Audience Elizabethan Theatre Not very
![Understanding Shakespeare Understanding Shakespeare](https://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h/24fbf8fd468a5192fe4a50456e282096/image-1.jpg)
Understanding Shakespeare
![Shakespeare’s Audience – Elizabethan Theatre – Not very popular with local merchants, the Puritans, Shakespeare’s Audience – Elizabethan Theatre – Not very popular with local merchants, the Puritans,](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h/24fbf8fd468a5192fe4a50456e282096/image-2.jpg)
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
![Shakespeare’s Audience – Attendees: – Nobles • Puritans – Merchants – “Groundlings” – Significance: Shakespeare’s Audience – Attendees: – Nobles • Puritans – Merchants – “Groundlings” – Significance:](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h/24fbf8fd468a5192fe4a50456e282096/image-3.jpg)
Shakespeare’s Audience – Attendees: – Nobles • Puritans – Merchants – “Groundlings” – Significance: Shakespeare wasn’t respected during his time so he needed to cater his plays to entertain the groundlings – BAWDY
![Shakespeare’s World – Renaissance – Rebirth into thinking – Man became the center of Shakespeare’s World – Renaissance – Rebirth into thinking – Man became the center of](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h/24fbf8fd468a5192fe4a50456e282096/image-4.jpg)
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
![Shakespeare’s Craft – Bawdy: – Why? – When does it disappear? – – Prose Shakespeare’s Craft – Bawdy: – Why? – When does it disappear? – – Prose](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h/24fbf8fd468a5192fe4a50456e282096/image-5.jpg)
Shakespeare’s Craft – Bawdy: – Why? – When does it disappear? – – Prose – – Usually spoken by groundling character or nobles behaving badly Blank Verse – Un-rhyming verse written in pentameter – – Engage the masses transition to poetry when the audience is hooked on the story 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 former state, That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust, Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must…. .
![Shakespeare’s Language – Unfamiliar words – Words out of use – Words that are Shakespeare’s Language – Unfamiliar words – Words out of use – Words that are](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h/24fbf8fd468a5192fe4a50456e282096/image-6.jpg)
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
![Shakespeare’s Language – Wordplay – Puns – Play on words that sound the same Shakespeare’s Language – Wordplay – Puns – Play on words that sound the same](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h/24fbf8fd468a5192fe4a50456e282096/image-7.jpg)
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
![The Shakespearean Sonnet (take notes now) The Shakespearean Sonnet (take notes now)](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h/24fbf8fd468a5192fe4a50456e282096/image-8.jpg)
The Shakespearean Sonnet (take notes now)
![What are the characteristics of a Shakespearean sonnet? – 14 lines – 3 quatrains What are the characteristics of a Shakespearean sonnet? – 14 lines – 3 quatrains](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h/24fbf8fd468a5192fe4a50456e282096/image-9.jpg)
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
![Examples of iambic pentameter? ba. BOOM/ ba. BOOM • How many syllables? • Pattern? Examples of iambic pentameter? ba. BOOM/ ba. BOOM • How many syllables? • Pattern?](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h/24fbf8fd468a5192fe4a50456e282096/image-10.jpg)
Examples of iambic pentameter? ba. BOOM/ ba. BOOM • How many syllables? • Pattern?
![Examples of Iambic Pentameter When I / do COUNT/ the CLOCK/ that TELLS/ the Examples of Iambic Pentameter When I / do COUNT/ the CLOCK/ that TELLS/ the](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h/24fbf8fd468a5192fe4a50456e282096/image-11.jpg)
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?
![– How many syllables per line? – 10 – Pattern – Unstressed – How many syllables per line? – 10 – Pattern – Unstressed](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h/24fbf8fd468a5192fe4a50456e282096/image-12.jpg)
– How many syllables per line? – 10 – Pattern – Unstressed
![Summary – Write your summary now of 3 -4 sentences. Summary – Write your summary now of 3 -4 sentences.](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h/24fbf8fd468a5192fe4a50456e282096/image-13.jpg)
Summary – Write your summary now of 3 -4 sentences.
- Slides: 13