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The day that William Shakespeare was born.
Mary Shakespeare
William Shakespeare’s mom.
John Shakespeare
William Shakespeare’s dad.
Anne Hathaway
William Shakespeare’s wife.
14
The age when William Shakespeare left school due to his father losing his job.
The amount of siblings that William Shakespeare had.
14
The amount of lines in a sonnet.
Catholic
The type of Christianity that William Shakespeare’s family practiced.
1565
The year that John Shakespeare joined the civic order.
1569
The year that John Shakespeare became mayor.
Glover
The job that John Shakespeare had during William’s childhood.
Selling wool
The secret, illegal job that John Shakespeare had.
1571
The educational revolution.
160
The amount of new schools that were created during the educational revolution.
6
The amount of days per week that William Shakespeare attended school.
6-5:30
The amount of time that William Shakespeare went to school per day.
Catholic
The type of Christianity practiced by most of the teachers in William Shakespeare’s school.
9
The age when William Shakespeare was introduced to poetry at “big school.”
12
The age of William Shakespeare when his father lost his job which led to him losing his money and inheritance.
Ovid
William Shakespeare’s favorite book.
Queen Elizabeth
The person who was excommunicated by the Pope.
8-9
The amount of years older Anne is than William.
Through their father’s work
How Anne met William.
Stratford-upon-Avon
Where William Shakespeare grew up.
Whateley
Anne’s last name on the marriage papers.
No, he was just the best at it.
Did William Shakespeare invent the Shakespearean stanza?
Poetry
Concentrated language produced through rhythms and sounds. A heightened form of language also known as verse.
Prose
“Ordinary language.”
Meter
Regular rhythmic pattern in language.
Iambic Pentameter/Blank Verse
A 10-syllable line.
Iamb
A unit of speech that contains one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
Penta
A word meaning 5.
It resembled natural speech
Why William Shakespeare wrote in iambic pentameter.
There wasn’t extra flashiness.
Why words were so important in an Elizabethan play.
Inversion
When Shakespeare rearranges the word order to create new rhythms or to emphasize a particular word.
Inversion
“He goes” vs “Goes he”
Omission
When Shakespeare omits a whole word or part of a word to create rhymes.
Omission
“Heard the news” vs “Have you heard the news”
Archaic Language
When Shakespeare uses words differently than they are often used.
Archaic Language
“heavy” in the sentence, “away from light steals home my heavy son”
Classical Allusion
An indirect reference to something from Greek or Roman mythology.
Biblical Allusion
An indirect reference to something from the Bible.
Classical Allusion
“She sang like a Siren.”
Biblical Allusion
“After losing his job, his wife, and his horse, it seemed his lot in life was much like Job’s.”
Pun
Something that is created by playing with the sound of words to achieve particular effects such as amusement, thought provocation, clarification, or explanation.
Paradox
A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
Petrarchan Love
A love in which one lover emphasizes the paralyzing intensity of love, is anti-sex, is melancholy, and wants to be alone. They describe their lover as perfect and that her only fault is that she is mortal, yet she does not return his love.
The Dark Lady
The lady that some of William Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to (sonnets 127-152).
A mysterious man
Who most of William Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to.
Laura
An example of Petrarchan Love in Shakespeare’s life seen in this woman:
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