PPT-BBL 4308 Shakespeare & His Contemporaries

Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare Background Genre Slapstick over verbal humor apprentice comedy The shortest and most farcical comedy First Performance December 28 1594 Grays Inn Christmas Revels. Study Guide Review. 1. What did Shakespeare consider his main profession to be? (Bloom: Knowledge). He considered himself to be more of an actor than a writer.. 2. Explain why Shakespeare might find it unusual for people to study his plays . Greetings from me, The Bard, England’s greatest poet and storyteller. You thought I was just the greatest writer? I am also the rudest man in England!. LEARNING OBJECTIVES. By the end of this lesson: . 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 . 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. The Poet. SHAKE-SPEARE’S SONNETS. Published in . 1609. . Thomas Thorpe was the publisher. Shakespeare did . not. give his approval. Thorpe was “cashing-in” on Shakespeare. Before attempting sonnets, Shakespeare wrote two . xlix-lii. THE TEXTS OF SHAKESPEARE. So far as we know, only a few pages of a play in Shakespeare’s hand exists, a fragment from a play called . Sir Thomas More. We do have printed texts that have survived as either quartos or folios. 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. A comic logo of Shakespeare to celebrate the 450th anniversary of . Shakespeare's birthday in Shakespeare 450 conference, held by the Société Française . Shakespeare in Paris, 21-27 April 2014.. Shakespeare in Global/Local Contexts. 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. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Mr. William Shakespeare. Born April 23, 1564– died April 23, 1616. Baptismal name: Johanna Shakespeare. Eldest son and third child of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden.. 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. 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. To . explore and understand Shakespeare’s use of language in Sonnet . 144. A Muse. The Muses are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts in Greek mythology. . They . were considered the source of the knowledge .