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My Language is Different from Your Language…Or is it?

My Language is Different from Your Language…Or is it?. An Introduction to the Language of Shakespeare. Radio Activity. We will be reading a poem by Laurel Blossom called Radio. Now that we have read the poem, get with your shoulder partner to explore the poem a bit more.

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My Language is Different from Your Language…Or is it?

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  1. My Language is Different from Your Language…Or is it? An Introduction to the Language of Shakespeare

  2. Radio Activity • We will be reading a poem by Laurel Blossom called Radio. • Now that we have read the poem, get with your shoulder partner to explore the poem a bit more. • Choose a Person A and a Person B • Person A- You will be playing the part of…you. • Person B- You will be playing the part of… Sir Phillip Sidney. You know who he is …right?

  3. Radio Activity • Queen Elizabeth I (1530 – 1586) • Considered by many to be the greatest monarch in English history. • Became queen in 1558 at she was twenty-five years old • Inherited a bankrupt nation, torn by religious discord, a weakened pawn between the great powers of France and Spain. • Only the third queen to rule England in her own right; many hoped she would marry quickly and lean upon her husband for support. • She ruled alone for nearly half a century and was committed above all else to preserving English peace and stability; her genuine love for her subjects was legendary. • Died in 1603

  4. Radio Activity • Person A, read the poem to Person B. • Remember that Person B is Queen Elizabeth I and she might have a few problems understanding the language. Try to help her understand the poem by using language that she would use. • Person B, stop Person A when you need them to explain something in the poem. • Let’s talk about it…

  5. Shakespeare’s Use of Language… • Shakespeare’s language is a primary source of pleasure in his plays • Appropriated stories from biographies, historical figures or well known tales • Great use of figurative language • Focus on language because the use of props and scenery was minimal • Many people went to listen to plays and such because so many were illiterate (hence the lack of focus on publication and more so on the performance)

  6. How Shakespeare Uses Language… • Most of Shakespeare’s plays are open script • Lack of stage direction • Most direction added by editors • Language speaks/dictates the direction • Moments “to make your own” • Closed scripts • Modern plays • Doesn’t allow for “openness” or interpretation of the setting/direction

  7. Shakespeare’s Use of Language… • Shakespeare loved to pun • The usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound • He was extremely flexible with literal and figurative language • Literal - Adhering to fact or to the ordinary construction or primary meaning of a term or expression • Figurative - Expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another with which it may be regarded as analogous 

  8. Genres of Shakespeare’s Plays • Shakespeare’s plays fit into 4 genres: comedy, tragedy, history and romance • Tragedy: • Literary structure that moves towards an unhappy ending and thus implies an unfavorable assessment of human experience. • Ends in the death of the hero and many others in the play • Ends in annihilation, misery, separation and loss • Emphasis on failure, waste, disappointment and self destruction

  9. How Shakespeare Uses Language… • Poetry • a concentrated and heightened form of a language, produced through rhythm and sound • Prose • the language of everyday, ordinary speech • Aside • Usually a short, pithy conversation to audience and no one else • Blank Verse • a poetic form that usually uses a metrical pattern known as unrhymed iambic pentameter • Meter • the use of a regular rhythm pattern in language • Iamb • a unit of speech that contains one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable • Iambic pentameter • a poetic form that consists of five iambs • Monologue • Long speech on stage that other people can hear • Soliloquy • Long speech with no one on stage, internal thoughts

  10. Tossing Lines Activity • Each of you will receive a line from Julius Caesar • Read the line to yourself. Are there any words that you don’t understand or can’t pronounce? What are they? • Let’s get into a BIG CIRCLE with your lines in hand • One section at a time…please • You will say your line, then toss the toy to someone. They will catch the toy, say their line, and toss the toy to someone else. We will continue this until all the lines have been said a few times. Try saying the line differently each time…

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