PPT-An Incredibly Brief Introduction to Shakespeare

Everything you NEED to know to read his plays Three Basic Types of Shakespearean Plays Tragedy Comedy History Tragedy Shakespearean Tragedy is the classification of drama written by William Shakespeare which has a noble protagonist who is flawed in some way placed in a stressful heightened situation and ends with a fatal conclusion . EQ: How can I understand Shakespeare & apply it to my life?. Shakespeare, alias the Bard. EQ: How can I apply Shakespeare to today’s . world or the world of early America?. Times. Elizabethan Age (era of peace after 100 Years War with France & the War of Roses, a civil war in England) . . . Time & money for the . Bevington. , Welsh and Greenwald. SHAKESPEARE script, stage, screen. Chapter 4. The spectrum of interpretive possibilities. Reviewers, critics, directors, and actors all bring their own backgrounds, prejudices and personal experiences. 1564-1616. The “be-all and end-all” of dramatists. CLICK ON SPEAKER TO HEAR SOUND. CHILDHOOD. Born in . Stratford-upon-Avon. Son of a glove-maker. Grammar school education. (6am-6pm) boys studied Latin:Cicero,Virgil,Ovid, and Seneca. Queen Elizabeth I - born September 7, 1533 in . Greenwich. Died March 24, 1603 in Richmond, Surrey. Daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn . (. beheaded by Henry for not bearing a son). Coronated. the Digital Humanities Projects. of Moscow University for the Humanities. RESEARCH DATABASE “RUSSIAN SHAKESPEARE”. www.rus-shake.ru. Russian translations. Criticism. Shakespeare in original oeuvre. English 12. William Shakespeare. The most influential writer in all of English literature.. Born on April 23, 1564 (?) in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England. The exact date of his birth is unknown. He was baptized on April 26, 1564.. Why do we study Shakespeare?. He is an amazing wordsmith. Many of the words and phrases we use today were coined by Shakespeare.. Look familiar?. barefaced . fancy-free. catch a . cold. . disgraceful conduct . Playtexts. and Performance Texts . Part 2.. Shakespeare’s Beginnings. Snug: Have you the lion’s part written? Pray you, if it be, give it me; for I am slow of study.. Quince: You may do it extempore*, for it is nothing but roaring. 1564-1616. 1592 first evidence of arrival on London theatrical scene. 1594 forms . Lord Chamberlain’s. men. 1603 renamed the . King’s Men. Composition of . Tempest. around 1610-1611 . Circa 1611 London career ends. . appreciate that Shakespeare’s plays can be performed and interpreted in different ways, . remaining relevant in the 21. st. century.. OBJECTIVES:. What do you know about Shakespeare?. . What did he do?. Pericles. “Thy . food is . such. As . hath been . belch'd. on by infected lungs. .”. Or this one from King Lear (said by the King to his own daughter!). “Thou . art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted . 1. William Shakespeare is generally regarded as the world’s greatest writer in the English Language because of his brilliant . poetic language . and his keen insight into . human nature..  . 2. Shakespeare was born in . The “be-all and end-all” of dramatists. CLICK ON SPEAKER TO HEAR SOUND. CHILDHOOD. Born in . Stratford-upon-Avon. Son of a glove-maker. Grammar school education. (6am-6pm) boys studied Latin:Cicero,Virgil,Ovid, and Seneca. „The . ultimate. . source. of . the. . Hamlet . story is . Saxo. . Grammaticus. ’ . Historica. Danica . (1180-1208), . the. . saga. of . one. . Amlothi. . or. (. as. . Saxo. . calls. .