William Shakespeare: Life and Contributions

An example of a tragedy written by Shakespeare is _

Romeo and Juliet

Aside

A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage

Bene- means

Good

Blank verse

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Curs- means

Moving

Dramatic Irony

A situation in which the audience knows something that the characters do not

Foot

A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Hamartia

A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine

He created 7 types of general stories, which were

Overcoming the monster, rags to riches, the quest, voyage & return, comedy, tragedy, and rebirth

He wrote ___ poems

4 poems

He wrote a _ of sonnets, specifically ___

Quarto, 154

How many kids did they have?

3 children

How many of those words do we use today?

About 5,000

How many plays did he write?

37 plays

How many words did he invent?

32,000

Inversion

Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order)

It is important to know about these story types because it can help us develop

Schema

It was called the Elizabethan era because?

It was during Elizabeth I's rule

Lamb (type of foot)

Two syllables, unstressed followed by stressed (da DUM)

Lights were ____

Minimal

Mal- means

bad

Malapropism

A word humorously, often deliberately misused

Monologue

A long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group to other characters

Not only was he a writer, he was also a _

Performer

Prose

Any writing that is not poetry

Puns

A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that some words sound alike but have different meanings

Rhymed verse

Verse with end rhyme that usually has regular meter

Sanct- means

Sacred

Shakespeare wrote 3 types of stories: Comedies, histories, and

Tragedies

Shakespeare's themes are , which is proved by all of the modern film adaptations of his plays

Timeless

Soliloquy

A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage

Stage directions were minimal, simply being "___, ______, & __ __"

Left, right, they fight

Stell- means

Star

Stock characters

Particular and predictable roles

Terr- means

Earth

The golden age was a time of instability and disease, such as the _, which closed the globe 4 times

Black Plauge

The golden age, AKA the Elizabethan era, was in place during which times?

1558-1603

Thee

'You' but is only used as the object of a sentence

Their performances were minimal. This means that the stage prompts were ____

Few

Thine

Yours (possessive)

Thou

Informal and singular, used among friends, children, servants, and in direct address to god

Thy

'You' possessively

Tragic hero

The principal sympathetic character around whom the plot and themes of the play are driven

True or False: He contributed the most phrases in the world

True

True or false: Schema is a pattern that you can recognize, so we can better predict what will happen in the story

True

What is the name of the establishment he and 4 fellow writers built in 1599?

The globe theater

What is the name of the theatre company he was a co-owner of?

Lord Chamberlain's Men

What prefixes were used in Romeo and Juliet?

Stell-, bene-, mal-, sanct-, terr-, curs-

What things happened that affected it's availability?

The puritans tore it down, but it was eventually rebuilt.

When did he officially become known as a playwright?

1592

When was his birthday?

April 23, 1564

When was his death date?

April 23, 1616

Where was he born?

Stratford-upon-Avon, England

Who did he marry and when?

Anne Hathaway in 1582

Why did Shakespeare live in London for 7 years?

Because of financial strain

Women were not allowed to perform, so women in the plays were actually played by

Young boys or other men

Ye

Plural, or a synonym for you

You

Formal and singular, address stranger or someone of higher status