The Life of Bill: A Tale of Family, Career, and Language

1. The Life of Bill ~ April 23, 1564- April 23, 1616~

2. The Life of Bill: Family • PARENTS: • Understood all walks of life and social classes - Father was a glover and a leather merchant, mother was a land heiress, which put them in the working class, but with benefits and respect. • FAMILY: • Married Anne Hathaway in 1582. (He was 18 while she was 26 and pregnant) • 3 kids: Susanna & twins – Hamnet and Judith

3. The Life of Bill: Career • ACTING CAREER: • 1594 – actor, writer, and a managing partner for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men’s Company • NOTE: LCM Company– acting company patronized by royalty and popular by the public

4. The Life of Bill: Works Wrote 154 sonnets, 2 epic narratives, and 38 plays including: • Comedies: 12th Night, Measure for Measure, Taming of the Shrew • Histories: Henry’s and Richard’s • Tragedies: Hamlet, King Lear, Othello • Late Romances: Tempest

5. The Life of Bill: Language • Known for prose, witty poetry, and blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter). • No dictionaries or grammar books = learned from other educated writers • Credited with introducing 3,000+ words/phrases into the language: • EXAMPLES: Bedroom, dawn, gossip, gloomy, fashionable, bump, cold-blooded, Break the ice, breathed his last, dog will have his day, good-riddance, sent packing, seen better days, heart of gold

7. The Life of Bill: Language • Only one generation from what we speak today • Reading Hints: • Thee/Thou = you • Thy/Thine = your • Art = Are • T’is = it is • Alas = unfortunately OTHER HINT: Don’t pronounce the apostropheat the end of words; apostrophes are for other vowels Ex. cat I’th’ adage = cat in the adage

8. The Life of Bill: Language The only thing that is different from modern time is the WORD ORDER in which the characters speak. For example: • YODA: “Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by size, do you?” • TRANSLATION: “Size doesn’t matter. Do you judge me by size? DON’T STRESS…WE will work on this specifically before we start reading!

9. The Life of Bill: Language • Elizabethan Drama– turn away from religious subjects and began more sophisticated plays drawing from the ancient Romans and Greek • Many Tragedies– hero hit with disaster • Carefully crafted, unrhymed, rich language, vivid imagery

10. PG. 4 IN PACKET Time Period:The Renaissance

11. Time Period: Renaissance • QUEEN ELIZABETH(1558-1603) • England emerges as naval and commercial power of Western world after defeating the Spanish armada • England firmly established the Church of England, which attacks Catholics and witches. QUICK FACT: The C.O.E. begun with her father, Henry VIII, after a disagreement with the pope about getting divorced!

12. Time Period: Renaissance • QUEEN ELIZABETH(1558-1603) • There were Catholic plots to kill Queen Elizabeth since she was from her father’s second marriage. Catholics wished to crown Mary Scot, her cousin instead. • Mary Scot was eventually imprisoned for 19 years and then beheaded. Scotland (1st marriage) England (2nd marriage)

13. Time Period: Renaissance Since Queen Elizabeth had no heirs, so… JAMES VI OF SCOTLAND is crowned as JAMES I OF ENGLAND (Mary Scot’s son!!) Talk about irony!

14. Time Period: Renaissance JAMES I OF ENGLAND • 1605 –Gun Powder Plot: Catholics plot to blow up the king and Parliament RIDICULOUS HISTORICAL SPECIFICS: Guy Fawkes rented a cellar under the House of Lords, where he stored 36 barrels of gun-powder. This unsuccessful act increased Catholic persecution. Until this day in England, Nov. 5th is known as Guy Fawkes Day. The English burn dummies of Guy and set off fireworks to celebrate.

15. Time Period: Renaissance JAMES I OF ENGLAND • 1607 –Jamestown settled • 1611 – King James Bible published • Witch Trials continue

16. PG. 4 IN PACKET The Globe Theater:

17. The Globe Theater: History • 1576 – Known as “The Theater” • 1594 – closed briefly for the plague… ugh. • 1599 – Tore down and drug across the Thames river after a legal dispute. • 1613 – Burnt down from a fire started by a canon shot during a Henry VIIIperformance.

18. The Globe Theater: History • 1642 – Officially closed by Puritan regime • *Overall: Run predominately by Shakespeare’s group the Lord Chamberlain’s Men Company

19. The Globe Theater: Construction • Open octagon, 3 stories high, 100 ft. in diameter • Fits 3,000 spectators • Microcosm of London • Pit– (1 pence) Groundlings/Peasants; standing room only, fruit and nuts sold • 3 tiers – (2 pence) upper class seating • Behind stage – royalty (so everyone could see them )

20. The Globe Theater: Construction • No real scenery: • audience goes off of exaggerated language and movement • SPECIAL EFFECTS: • Trap doors, balcony entrances, rope riggings, etc. • Fireworks (lightning), rolled canon balls (thunder)

21. The Globe Theater: Plays • Plays performed during the day for lighting (2-5pm) • Actors were ONLY men. Young boys played the roles of women.

22. PG. 5 IN PACKET Shakespeare’sMacbeth

23. Macbeth: Writing Patronage THE PLAY WAS WRITTEN FOR KING JAMES I: He was obsessed with demonology, the idea of magic and witches. (2) He experienced the Gun Powder Plot, an assassination attempt. (3)Banquowas written as a “good guy” since King James was his descendant. (4) The play was short because he liked short plays NOTE: The real Macbeth, King Duncan, Malcolm, Banquo and Lady Macbeth all lived in the 1000s Beowulf’s times!

24. Macbeth: The Curse Supposedly, saying "Macbeth" inside a theater will bring bad luck to the play and anyone acting in it. People actually refer to the play as “The Scottish Play”or “MacB”when at the theater

25. Macbeth: The Curse WHY IT STARTED: Used an authentic 17th century black-magic ritualfor the opening scene of Macbeth's Act IV (a sort of “how-to” for budding witches.) That means he provided his audience with step-by-step instructions of how to create a real spell! As punishment, the witches supposedly cursed the play and its actors.

26. Macbeth: REVERSE The Curse • Exit the theater, • Spin around three times saying a profanity • And then ask for permission to return inside *OR 4) Some believe that you can repeat the words "Thrice around the circle bound, Evil sink into the ground,"

27. The Curse • First Macbeth Performance Ever: Beginning with its first performance, in 1606, Dear Will himself was forced to play Lady Macbeth when Hal Berridge, the boy designated to play the lady, became inexplicably feverish and died. Moreover, the bloody play so displeased King James I that he banned it for five years. • Amsterdam, 1672:The actor playing Macbeth substituted a real dagger for the blunted stage one and with it killed Duncan in full view of the entranced audience. • Lady Macbeth incidents: Sarah Siddons was nearly ravaged by a disapproving audience in 1775; Sybil Thorndike was almost strangled by a burly actor in 1926; Diana Wynyard sleepwalked off the rostrum in 1948, falling down 15 feet. • New York, 1849:During its performance at New York's Astor Place, a riot broke out in which 31 people were trampled to death. The actor playing Macduff was mugged soon after the play's opening.

28. The Curse • USA, 1937: When Laurence Olivier took on the role of Macbeth, a 25 pound stage weight crashed within an inch of him, and his sword which broke onstage flew into the audience and hit a man who later suffered a heart attack. • 1934: British actor Malcolm Keen turned mute onstage, and his replacement, Alister Sim, like Hal Berridge before him, developed a high fever and had to be hospitalized. • 1942: The Macbeth production headed by John Gielgud, three actors -- Duncan and two witches -- died, and the costume and set designer committed suicide amidst his devilish Macbeth creations. • Bermuda, 1952: Charlton Heston, in an outdoor production, suffered severe burns in his groin and leg area from tights that were accidentally soaked in kerosene. • Recent Years: An actor's strike felled Rip Torn's 1970 production in New York City. Two fires and seven robberies plagued the 1971 version starring David Leary.

29. RENAISSANCE RECAP Shakespeare Globe Theater Queen Elizabeth King James I The Macbeth Curse

30. PG. 7 IN PACKET ACT I: TERMS • Elizabethan Drama – *already in your background notes • Tragedy– a serious play in which the chief characters, through peculiarity, pass through a series of misfortunes, eventually leading to their downfall • Aside – a convention in drama whereby a character onstage addresses the audience to reveal some inner thought or feeling, inaudible to other characters onstage • MACBETH: The greatest is behind us. Thanks for your pains[Aside to Banquo]Do you not hope your children will be kings…?

31. ACT I: i-iii TERMS • Soliloquy – monologue delivered by a character while alone onstage revealing inner thoughts, emotions, or some other information the audience needs to know… (think solo!) • Euphemism– a mild, indirect, or vague expression used in place of one thought to be offensive, harsh or blunt. • Paradox – a statement which reveals a kind of truth which at first seems contradictory • “Foul is fair and fair is foul” • Hamartia – a character’s tragic flaw, which leads to his/her downfall

32. (1)This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, why hath it given me earnest success commencing in a truth? If good, why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature? (Act I, scene iii) DECODING LANGUAGE

33. (2)O gentle lady, ‘tis not for you to hear what I can speak. The repetition in a woman’s ear would murder as it fell. (Act II, scene iii) DECODING LANGUAGE

34. (3) Here we had now our country’s honor roofed, were the graced person of our Banquo present. Who may I rather challenge of unkindness than pity for mischance. (Act III, scene iv) DECODING LANGUAGE

35. (4)Time, thou anticipat’st my dread exploits. The flighty purpose never is o’ertook unless the deed go with it. From this moment the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand. And even now, to crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done. (Act 4, scene i) DECODING LANGUAGE

36. (5)Cure her of that. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart? (Act 5, scene iii) DECODING LANGUAGE

37. 1. “We spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones.” 2. “Respect your parents: they passed grade school without using Google.” 3. “I don’t have bad handwriting, I just have my own font.” 4. “Dear math… grow up and solve your own problems because I’m sick of solving them for you.” 5. “Don’t break anybody’s heart because they only have one. Instead, break their bones because they have 206.” • HINTS: • Word Order • Use words from the time (thou, art, thine, etc.) ROLE REVERSAL

38. THINGS TO CONSIDER • Do you believe in prophecies or predicting the future? • If yes… • would someone’s prediction about you make you change what you’re doing now or how you currently live your life?

39. Macbeth: Setting • *Scotland • Inverness (Macbeth’s Castle near Dunsinane and Birnahm Woods) • Fife (MacDuff’s Castle) • Cawdor & Glamis (territories in Scotland) • England • Ireland • Norway

40. Macbeth: Setting Macbeth!

41. Macbeth: WHO’S WHO? SCOTLAND MACBETH (Commander & Thane of Glamis) LADY MACBETH KING DUNCAN Malcolm & Donalbain (Malcolm is the eldest) *Thane = baron, lord BANQUO (Commander under Macbeth; Macbeth’s BFF) • AT WAR WITH NORWAY: • Macdonwald • King Sweno Fleance

42. ACT I: i-iii CHARACTERS 11 CHARACTERS READ IN ACT I: I-iii • Weird Sisters(1st, 2nd,and 3rd witch) • supernatural entities • wyrd (Old English) = weird (Scottish) = FATE • Duncan – King of Scotland • Malcolm – Duncan’s oldest son • Macbeth – Thane of Glamis • Thane - feudal lord • Banquo – commander with Macbeth • Captain – Captain of Scotland’s army • Angus, Lennox, & Ross– Scottish nobles

43. ACT I: i-ii TERMS Scene i • Graymalkin: witch’s “spirit” cat • Paddock: witch’s “spirit” toad Scene 2 • Broil: Battle • Kerns ^ gallowglasses: armed soldiers • Unseamed: ripped open • Norweyan Lord: King of Norway • Thane: lord of baron of an area in Scotland • Craves composition: asks for terms • Deceives/ our bosom interest: betrays us

44. ACT I: iii TERMS Scene iii • forbid: under a curse • wracked: wrecked or tormented • Fantastical: figment of your imagination • Nobel having: possession of a noble title • Sinel: Macbeth’s father • Insane root: plant that causes hallucinations • combined: in conspiracy with • Ill: evil • Unfix my hair: scare (hair stands up) • Against nature: unnatural

45. ACT I: IV TERMS Scene iv: • f: fff • f: execute • f: figme

46. ACT I: IV-VII CHARACTERS 5 CHARACTERS READ IN ACT I: Iv-vii • Lady Macbeth– Macbeth’s wife • Macbeth – Thane of Glamis (& Cawdor now!) • Thane - feudal lord • Duncan – King of Scotland • Messenger – • Banquo – commander with Macbeth

47. ACT I: V TERMS Scene v: • chastise: reprimand, punish with words • metaphysical supernatural • compunctious: remorseful • gall: bile-like humor that contains evil/hatred • Pall thee: cover yourself (referencing to cover with the blanket that goes on a coffin) • beguile: the time: deceive others in time

48. ACT I: VI & VII TERMS Scene vi: • PURVEYOR: one who advances preparations for a master Scene v:ii • Surcease: Duncan’s death • cherbuin: refers to winged angels • The cat in the adage: old story about a cat who would eat fish, but didn’t want to get his feet wet • wassail: carousing/partying • quell: murder

49. ACT I TERMINOLOGY • ASIDE • SOLILOQUY • CONFLICTS: Internal vs. External • PARADOX: • “Fair is foul and foul is fair” • “Cannot be ill, cannot be good” • Others? • THEME: Appearances can be deceiving • Quotes to prove it… Duncan, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth?

50. ACT I QUESTIONS? • Characters • Traitor? • Prince of Cumberland ? • Setting? • Predictions? • Macbeth & Banquo • Reactions to? • The Plan: