EQ How can I understand Shakespeare amp apply it to my life Shakespeare alias the Bard EQ How can I apply Shakespeare to todays world or the world of early America Times Elizabethan Age era of peace after 100 Years War with France amp the War of Roses a civil war in England ID: 220592
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Shakespeare
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?Slide2
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
artsRenaissance . . . Revival of learning and the arts . . . Mythological allusions . . . Greek unities . . . Many languages known to the learned Slide3
Theater: Finance
Sponsors, or patrons (Lord Chamberlain’s Men to the King’s Men)
Business savvy (Queen Elizabeth & King James I – witches/demons/obedience to king) . . . Same King James as KJV of Bible
Groundlings paid 1 penny & stood for 3 hrs. (wanted violence, bawdiness, & humor)
People in balconies paid far more.Slide4
Theater: Details
Times: 2 p.m. (flag/light)
Suspension (plague)Lay-out (thrust stage surrounded by open floor & tiers of balconies)
pit – musicians
belltower
– sound effects
8 or 16-sided called
the Globe
or “The Big O”
outer stage = outside
inner stage = inside
balcony = bedroom trapdoors in stage = demon/witch drop down from air = angel/fairySlide5
Flags
Black: tragedyWhite: comedyRed: historySlide6Slide7Slide8
Suspension of Disbelief
Def’n = when a reader doesn’t believe but chooses not to disbelieve in order to enter into a story
Required in fantasy and sci-fi, perhaps in adventure/actionExamples: THE TERMINATOR, SPIDERMAN, JAMES BONDSlide9
Dramatic Conventions = non-realistic techniques that we accept in order to enter into the story
Verse drama (iambic pentameter) vs. prose (
Prose indicated commoner, stupidity or strong emotion usually.) Shakespeare’s view of commoners
Costumes: anachronistic
Actors: men played all parts; acting = disreputable career
Cues: couplet to signal end of scene
Props: minimal!! A viewer had to use his/her imagination. 1 twig = forest; 1 candle = night
StageSlide10
Name a modern-day dramatic convention in movies.
Telescoping
Bird’s eye viewSlide11
Shakespeare’s Legacy
TheaterUniversal characters, conflicts, & themes
Vocabulary (assassination, bump, and lonely) & aphorisms/quotes (“What’s done is done.” “Sweets for the sweet.” “Dead as a doornail.” “For goodness’ sake.”)Shakespearean words/phrases
Shakespearean insults