Shakespeare notes

regarded as the greatest writer in the English language

William Shakespere

Shakespeare wrote ______ plays

38

In 1593-94 plague closes London theaters, writes a great deal of…

poetry

1594 forms his own company,….

The Lord Chamberlain’s Men

1599 Shakespeare’s acting company builds…

The Globe Theater

1603 Acting company changes their name to…

“The King’s Men”

1606

Macbeth

1623 Shakespeare’s plays published in…

The First Folio

The Globe Theater was destroyed by fire in 1613 due to…

theatrical cannon mishap during a performance of Henry VIII (8th)

Macbeth was likely written between…

1603-1606

Paid homage to…

King James I (reign 1603-1625) scottish Ancestry

Macbeth is shakespeare’s…

shortest tragedy & one of his bloodiest

Holinshed’s…

Chronicles

Gunpowder plot of…

1605

is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience or 1 other character. By convention the audience is to realize that the character’s speech is usally unheard by the other characters on stage

Aside

a long speech expressing private thoughts, delivered usually by a character alone on stage

soliloquy

when the audience has information about a specific situation & the characters do not

dramatic irony

a metrical foot with an unstressed syllables followed by one stressed

iamb

a metrical line of poetry or verse drama consisting of 5 feet, count 10 syllables

pentameter

a metrical foot one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed

trochee

a metrical foot line of poetry or verse drama consisting of 4 feet, count 8 syllables

tetrameter