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Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre

Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre. William Shakespeare. Stratford-upon-Avon Father: John Shakespeare Mother: Mar y Arden Wife: Anne Hathaway Susana, Judeth, Hamnet 1564-1616 First job: stage manager and actor. William Shakespeare cont.

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Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre

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  1. Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre

  2. William Shakespeare • Stratford-upon-Avon • Father: John Shakespeare • Mother: Mar y Arden • Wife: Anne Hathaway • Susana, Judeth, Hamnet • 1564-1616 • First job: stage manager and actor

  3. William Shakespeare cont. • First plays: Henry VI, Titus Andronicus, & The Comedy of Errors (1591-92) • Plays meant to be performed; not published until seven years after death • Lord Chamberlain’s Men: acting company • Queen Elizabeth I • 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and other poetry • Romeo and Juliet: performed 1594; popular tale- spectators knew story

  4. "Shakespeare and His Theater" WS • Known for comedies, histories, and tragedies • Queen Elizabeth I • Shakespeare’s theater: noisy, all ages, all classes, open • The pit: lower classes- “groundlings” • Noisy: food thrown, Shakespeare asked for “patient ears,” exaggerated acting, rushed plays • Wrote, directed, and acted in The Globe

  5. The Globe Virtual Tour • http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/virtualtour/stage/

  6. Shakespearean Vocabulary • Aside: • A brief remark made by a character and intended to be heard by the audience but not by other characters • Comic Relief: • A humorous scene or speech in a serious drama which is meant to provide relief from emotional intensity • Iambic Pentameter: • a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable • Soliloquy: • A speech given by a character alone on the stage • Sonnet: • 14 line poem in iambic pentameter

  7. Examples of Iambic Pentameter • “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” from Richard III • “Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?” from Sonnet 18 • "And wash this filthy witness from your hand.“ from Macbeth • “But do thy worst to steal thy self away,” Sonnet 92

  8. Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

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