Shakespeare Quiz

Rabbit Duck

Norman Rabkin, based of Gestalt psychology

-image of both a rabbit and a duck

Young Girl-Old Woman

image of both girl and woman

The globe

-most famous theater

-South bank of London's Thames River 1599

-sits 3000 of all social classes

King Henry the Fifth

What play has an Allusion to the Globe

groundlings

economy admission that paid one penny to sit on floor of Globe around stage

dimensions of globe stage

40 feet across and 27 feet deep

nothing is more important than words

"Words, words, words" and "Suit the action to the word, the word to the action”

Shakespeare and words

-night: (+) in Romeo and Juliet, (-) in Macbeth

-ideas of love: (+) in Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth (-), Othello (-)

Shakespeare's imagery

Richard Quiney

wrote a letter to Shakespeare asking for 30 pounds

-"My loving good friend and countryman"

-born April 23, 1564

-born at Stratford-upon-Avon

-Father was glover, alderman, mayor, butcher, rancher

-7 brothers and sisters

Biographical info on Shakespeare

Shakespeare's schooling

-went to grammar school for English, Latin, and history

-boys and girls went to school from ages 4-7

-didn't go to college

Shakespeare's marriage

-married Anne Hathaway November 28, 1582

-she was 27, he was 18

-she was pregnant

-first child: Susanna Shakespeare born May 26, 1583 (died 1649)

-twins: Judith + Hamnet born in 1585 (Hamnet died at age 11; Judith at age 67)

-only surviving grandchild: Elizabeth Bernard (died 1670)

Shakespeare's children

Marriage in Shakespeare's time

-marriage certificates didn't exist

-needed proclamation of the banns three times in a church on successive Sundays then a ceremony w/ friends and family

Lost Years

1585-1592; seven year period in which there are no records of Shakespeare's life

-theories he was a sailor, lawyer, or school master

Second-best bed

-What Shakespeare left Anne in his will

-best bed reserved for guests

Heminges and Condell

-friends that gathered Shakespeare's work and published it in 1629

-"Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies"

Foul Papers

-AKA prompter's copies

-Shakespeare's plays were written to be performed not read

-recorded from memory by actors

Shakespeare's occupations (4)

1. actor

2. writer

3. producer

4. shareholder in his own acting company

Parts of Shakespeare in his plays

-Ghost in Hamlet

-Adam in As You Like It

Friends of Shakespeare

-Ben Johnson (one of his actors)

-Heminges and Condell

-Richard Burbage

-Will Kemp and Robers Armin (Clowns 1 and 2)

Burbage

played Macbeth, Lear, Othello, and Hamlet

Armin

-second clown

-Inspired clowns in 12th night and King Lear

Production decision

-to produce at the Globe (large and outdoor) or Blackfriars (small and indoor)

Woody Allen

-most like Shakespeare today

-writes and acts in movies

-writes for Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow

Origin of idea for Romeo and Juliet

-from poem that says children will suffer if their listen to priests and not their parents

-Juliet is 20 here

Conflated editions

publications in which two versions of a part of a text are put together in a work

(ex: original paragraph and revised paragraph are both in text)

Roles of Women in plays

played by young boys because women were forbidden by Church and decorum ideas to act on stage

Shakespeare's vocabulary

38,000 (avg is 10,000)

incarnadine

making the green one red

Shakespeare's death

-died at age 52 in Stratford-on-Avon

-due to tuberculosis or typhoid

-Died on birthday (April 23, 1616)

-survived three plagues and floods