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Do now!. Take out your sonnet from yesterday (Sonnet 57). You have THREE minutes to finish working with your table.
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Do now! Take out your sonnet from yesterday (Sonnet 57). You have THREE minutes to finish working with your table.
Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do, till you require. Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hourWhilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When you have bid your servant once adieu; Nor dare I question with my jealous thought Where you may be, or your affairs suppose, But, like a sad slave, stay and think of noughtSave, where you are how happy you make those. So true a fool is love that in your will, Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill.
Tragedy • Drama that ends in catastrophe • Main character can also be known as the tragic hero • This character has at least one fatal flaw – weakness or serious error in judgment • Fate plays a part
Elements of Shakespeare’s Tragedies • Tragedy of human life: Defeat, Shattered hopes, and Death • Central figure who has believable human traits
Comic Relief in Tragedy • Humorous scene, incident, or speech to relieve emotional intensity • Provides contrast so the audience can absorb earlier events
Can include 1 or more of the following: • Fate Power • Romance Justice • Innocence vs. Experience Revenge • Reason vs. Passion Gender • Cynicism • Madness • Honor
Allusion in plays • Brief reference within a work • Audience is expected to know this outside reference • Historical or current event • Greek and Roman mythology • Bible
Foils • Character to provide contrast to another character • Used to highlight traits or attitude
Soliloquy and Aside • Dramatic conventions • Audience accepts are realistic • Soliloquy – speech a character gives when alone on stage • Aside- a character’s remark; other characters are not supposed to hear; reveals character’s private thoughts.
WHAT IS A PUN? • A word play suggesting, with humorous intent, the different meanings of one word or the use of two or more words similar in sound but different in meaning. (From Poetry Glossary) • A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
Pun Fun! • Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? • He's all right now.
Dramatic • This is the contrast between what the character thinks to be true and what we (the reader) know to be true. • Think soap operas!
Situational • It is the contrast between what happens and what was expected. Irony of situation is often humorous, such as when a prank backfires on the prankster. • It's the equivalent of a person spraying shaving cream in his own face when he was trying to spray his best friend.
Verbal • This is the contrast between what is said and what is meant. Most sarcastic comments are ironic. • For instance, the person who says, "Nice going, Einstein," isn't really paying anyone a compliment.
Situational • My dog's stomach was very upset, so I put him in the car and we went to the vet. On our way to the vet, I killed a cat
Verbal As you walk outside into the pouring rain, your best friend turns to you and says “What beautiful weather today.”
Dramatic You’re watching a talk show & you know that the whole show is based around connecting long lost family members to loved ones. There is a person on the show, who doesn’t know why they are there.
Verbal You guys are the WORST class.
Dramatic You’re watching a horror movie, the music gets creepy, the girl enters the locker room & you know the killer is there…
None of the following scenarios contain irony. It is your job to change the story so that it becomes ironic. • 1. A man gets struck by lightning. • 2. An animal rescuer gets injured on the job. • 3. A teenager saves all summer to buy a new car. • 4. Mrs. Cunningham drinks a cup of her favorite coffee from Starbucks.
Act 1 • We learn that Romeo’s family and Juliet’s family hate each other • There is a feud but we don’t know why • A fight breaks out between the families in the street • The Prince threatens punishment if the fighting continues • Romeo reveals to his cousin, Benvolio, that he is in love with a girl who does not love him back • A man comes to ask for Juliet’s hand • The Capulets are having a party • Romeo and his friends intercept the invitation (Capulet servant can’t read) and decide to crash it
Act 1 • Juliet learns that Paris wants to marry her and her parents approve of it • Juliet agrees to meet him at the party • Romeo and his friends head to the party but Romeo has a bad feeling • Romeo is at the party (disguised) and meets Juliet. They fall in love with each other but do not know they are from feuding households • The Capulets figure out that Romeo is there and kick him out
In the Textbook: • Page 721 • How to read a play • Prologue • Watch Act 1
PROLOGUE • Two households, both alike in dignity,In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.From forth the fatal loins of these two foesA pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;Whose misadventured piteous overthrowsDo with their death bury their parents' strife.The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,And the continuance of their parents' rage,Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;The which if you with patient ears attend,What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
