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Shakespeare

Shakespeare. An Introduction to Macbeth. Shakespeare's Words. Uses words no longer used today Aroint thee (begone), coign (corner), anon (right away) Uses words localized in Scotland The Western Isles, thanes, Cawdor, Glamis, Sinel,etc. Uses words now used with a different meaning

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Shakespeare

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  1. Shakespeare An Introduction to Macbeth

  2. Shakespeare's Words Uses words no longer used today Aroint thee (begone), coign (corner), anon (right away) Uses words localized in Scotland The Western Isles, thanes, Cawdor, Glamis, Sinel,etc. Uses words now used with a different meaning Composition (terms of peace), present (immediately), addition (title)

  3. Shakespeare's Sentences Inverted Syntax “Goes He” (Subject/ Verb Order) “My noble partner / You greet with present grace and great prediction” (Object / Subject +Verb Order) Separated Sentence Patterns “Who, like a good and hardy soldier, fought” (separates subject and verb)

  4. Shakespeare’s sentences Holds back parts of the sentence “For those of old / And the late dignities heaped up to them, / We rest your hermits” (Bold should be at the front of sentence.) Often omits words “Thou wouldst be great / [Thou] Art not without ambition, but [thou art] without/ The illness [that] should attend it.” (Words in brackets left out.)

  5. Wordplay Puns: words that sound similar, with differing meanings Metaphors: object or idea is expressed if it were something else that shares common features

  6. Macbeth’s language Invented Words: Words Shakespeare Coined-Folger Shakespeare Library Deliberate Imprecision: “If it were done when tis’ done, then twere’ well/It were done quickly” (1.7:1-2)

  7. Implied Stage Action Dialogue used to indicate stage directions Vague effect descriptions left up to director Imagination/ Visualization

  8. Shakespeare’s Life Stratford-upon-Avon Little known about his education Married Anne Hathaway in 1582 Attacked by Robert Greene for sudden prominence in 1590’s 1564-1616

  9. Shakespeare’s Influences Greek and Roman Literature Christianity World expanding and Science London growing into a Metropolis

  10. Shakespeare’s Theater Actors presented their plays in almost any place available, because theaters were not popular. The first theaters were built in the 1590s outside of London. Built in areas of entertainment. The Globe was on the Bankside.

  11. SHAKESPEARE’s Theater No elaborate scenes, so the audience had to imagine the changes in scenes. Creative changes of scenes by having the people walk off the stage, use of rhyming couplets, signage Men played roles for both genders.

  12. Publication of Shakespeare’s plays 18 of 38 plays printed during Shakespeare’s lifetime printed in cheaply made books called “quartos” Posthumously, Heminge & Condell compiled plays in “folios”, books printed on very large pages.

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