An Introduction to the Study of Language in Julius Caesar Billy S by Skye Sweetnam I dont need to read Billy Shakespeare Meet Juliet or Mavolio Feel for once what its like to rebel now ID: 223585
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William Shakespeare
An Introduction to the Study of Language in Julius CaesarSlide2
Billy S. by Skye
Sweetnam
“I don't need to read Billy Shakespeare,
Meet Juliet or
Mavolio
,
Feel for once what it's like to rebel now,
I
wanna
break out, let's go!
Teachers treat us all like clones,
Sit up straight, take off your headphones,
I don't blame them, they get paid,
Money
money
, woo, lot's of money
money
, woo!
…To skip or not to skip? that is the question…”Slide3
Born
: April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon,
England
Wife
: Anne Hathaway (He married at age 18)Children: Susanna, and twins Judith & Hamnet (Sadly, Hamnet, his only son, died in childhood)Profession(s): Playwright, Actor, Businessman (shareholder of an acting company)
Fast Facts…Slide4
Fast Facts…
Died
: April 23, 1616 in London, England (Coincidentally, on the same day, in Spain, Miguel de Cervantes, author of
Don Quixote
, also died. Even more of a coincidence, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, a Spanish/Incan writer, also died.)Buried: Holy Trinity Church with a curse for an epitaph – essentially, blessing those who leave his bones alone and cursing anyone who moves his bonesSlide5
Fast Facts…
Publication of his Plays
: There are no original manuscripts of Shakespeare’s plays. Seven years after his death, in 1623, a collection of his plays were published as the
First
Folio.Number of Plays: 39 written, but one manuscript has been lost, thus, 38 are typically attributed to him. He wrote mostly comedies, 18 to be exact. Histories and tragedies are tied at 10 plays each.Slide6
Fast Facts…
Comedies
Big problems, cross-dressing, then everyone’s happy
Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing
TragediesHero with a flaw, everyone diesHamlet, Othello, Romeo and JulietSlide7
Fast Facts…
Romances
There’s a trip to the countryside…fathers keep losing their daughters
The Tempest,
CymbalineHistoriesSelf-explanatoryRichard III, Henry V, Julius CaesarSlide8
Fast Facts…
Total Number of Written Words:
884,647 words
Earliest Written Play:
King Henry VI, Part 1 (1589-1591)Last Written Play: The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613)
Longest Play:
Hamlet
(4,042 lines
)
Shortest Play
:
The Comedy of Errors
(1,787 lines
)Slide9
Fast Facts…
Actors
: All the actors were male. Young boys played female roles. (Those kissing scenes must have been awkward! And if you’ve ever heard of Shakespeare’s play,
The Winter’s Tale
, there were boys dressed up as females dressed up men. Confusing? Yes. Entertaining…YES!)Slide10
Fast Facts…
Invented Language
: Shakespeare made up about 10% of the words in his plays. Many of the words we still used today (about 500) are attributed to him by the Oxford English Dictionary. Words such as: never-ending addiction, schoolboy, gentlefolk, radiance, lackluster, countless, useful, and day’s work
.Slide11
Julius Caesar
The play is…creative nonfiction.
Gaius Julius Caesar really did exist (July 100BC – 15 March 44 BC, 56 years old)
He really was assassinated by a group of people led by Marcus Brutus
Nowadays, we’d say, “Based on the true story…” The events are true, but the dialogue? Shakespeare took some “creative liberties”.Antony & Cleopatra begins directly after the end of Julius Caesar.Slide12
Why is he so hard to understand?
He’s a poet and he knows it.
Iambic pentameter, omit syllables, enjambment
Order of words (Odd grammar structures)
SVO vs. SOV or OVS or OSVHe wrote 400 years ago. In England.Out-dated references, slang, archaic wordsHe made up about 10% of the words.Plays are meant to be performed.A little light on the stage directionsSlide13
Why is he so hard to understand?
No special effects teams
What you see is what you get, so they improvised with figurative language.
First Globe Theater burned down…from a theatrical cannon that misfired during a performance of Henry VIII.Slide14
Order of Words
Anyone take Spanish/foreign lang.?
Adjectives? Indirect/Direct pronouns? SOV
English:
Subject Verb Object (SVO)I bought the hat. I bought it.She gave Jessica the gift. She gave it to her.Shakespeare: Any combinationI the hat bought. Bought it I. The hat I bought.She it gave. She the gift gave Jessica.Slide15
Order of Words
Star Wars – Yoda
“‘Told you I did, reckless is he,” (Yoda,
Empire Strikes Back
).VOS, OVS. Verb (did told) object (you) subject (I), object (reckless) verb (is) subject (he).Slide16
Iambic Pentameter
Iamb = iambus
“a
foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter” “Hence! Home you idle creatures, get you home”Penta = Greek for “five”Meter“Poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly
measured,
patterned, or rhythmic lines or
verses
.
”Slide17
Iambic Pentameter
Thus…iambic pentameter is…
A measure of poetry in which there are a series of five iambs/feet per line (five sets of two syllables, unstressed stressed)Slide18
Worksheet #1 “You Be Bill
Move the italicized words ONLY.
If such calms
come after every tempest
If after every tempest come such calmsNow confusion hath made his masterpieceConfusion now hath made his masterpieceLet all the battlements fire their ordnanceLet all the battlements their ordnance fireSlide19
Worksheet #2
1)
you have madded
A father and a gracious aged man, Whose reverence even the head-lugged bear would lick, Most barbarous, most degenerate.2) an Eygptian did give that handkerchief to my mother.3) The fiery Tybalt came in the instant with his sword prepared…Slide20
Worksheet #2
4) A crutch! A crutch!
Why you call for a sword
?
5) O, where is Romeo? You saw him today?6) I did see your son walking so early underneath the grove of sycamore that westward rooteth from the city side.Slide21
Worksheets # 3, 4, 5
You have the remainder of the class time to work on these worksheets. Finish them for homework.
Questions? Just ask me!
You do not have to start reading Act I for homework, but if you have the time, the book, and want to, I suggest it. I’ll walk you through most of Act I tomorrow in class.