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Macbeth by Shakespeare . Partner Platicando. Who is oldest? Objective : speak in complete sentences that use correct subject/predicate agreement Shakespeare, who is famous for many plays, write/writes about the challenges, triumphs, and humor we all face/faces in our lives.
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Partner Platicando • Who is oldest? Objective: speak in complete sentences that use correct subject/predicate agreement • Shakespeare, who is famous for many plays, write/writes about the challenges, triumphs, and humor we all face/faces in our lives. • Who is youngest? Objective: speak in complete sentences that use correct subject/predicate agreement • Since he is/are an integral part of literature and language, the reasons to study him is/are endless.
What is Drama? • Literature meant to be performed • Subject to interpretation • “As a reader you become the play’s director” • Partner Platicando does this mean?
Who is Shakespeare? • 1564-1616 • England • $ from plays that was well-invested • 37 plays and 154 sonnets • Unknown but assumed education • Married with 3 children • 1592 prominence as actor and playwright • 1593 published poet during the years of the plague, which shut down theatre operations • A mystery man that legends explained…more currently updated historical records indicate prominent, wealthy, and successful
Shakespeare’s Time • Evolving and blending of religions, cultures, histories, inventions, lands, and beliefs—reflected in his writing • London—happening city with problems of poverty and population, yet many “elite” lived there • The other side of the tracks • Stratford-upon-Avon—rural England, a life lived close to the land
Shakespeare's Time • Queen Elizabeth 1’s reign • English Renaissance • Heroes! Ideal Elizabethan man: courtier, adventurer, poet, fencer, conversationalist, witty, eloquent, self-reflective • Arranged marriages ($) • Concern with the “order” of things • Rulers were believed to be agents of God
Shakespeare’s Theatre • Member of the King’s Men acting group • 1599 built the Globe, which was destroyed by fire in 1613, rebuilt but then taken down by Parliament after 1642 • Actors traveled to perform at a variety of locales • Theatres not built in London city limits • “bare stage”—birthed Shakespeare’s mastery of descriptive imagery • Female roles played by boys • Had to work for “higher ups” to be protected
How to Read Shakespeare • Use the character list (dramatis personae) • Never break with end lines, but rather with punctuation • Use notes • Read more than once • Read aloud, remembering its meant to be acted • Read as a director • Identify subject, predicate, and object as a way to work through reversed, inverted, or delayed syntax • Recognize and embrace the challenge that language is living and thus changing • Let the text teach you and mold you into an effective reader • Paraphrase (using a similar length of prose, put into your own words) • Apostrophes take the place of letters • Verb roots are often the same, even in suffix changes
Literary Devices—see book • Drama devices • Literary devices
Theme—Platicando • In what ways do men have power? How do they maintain it? How do they lose it? • In what ways do women have power? How do they maintain it? How do they lose it? • How does ambition corrupt? How does power corrupt? • Do we create our destiny? Or does our destiny create us? • What does the supernatural mean? How does it influence our lives? • How are people deemed as social outcasts? Once outcast, how do they influence society?
