Warm Up – Shakespeare Day 4 Pick up an analysis worksheet and complete it for your Shakespeare Scenes. (you may work with your group members on it)

Subtext – emotion and thought behind a line (inner monologue) Example: Person 1: What time is it? Person 2: It’s eleven o’clock.

 Person 1: What time is it? (How much longer do I have to live?)  Person 2: It’s eleven o’clock. (Exactly one hour; you’ll be executed at midnight)

 Person 1: What time is it? (When is this class going to end?)  Person 2: It’s eleven o’clock. (Thank goodness, the bell is about to ring!)

 Person 1: What time is it? (We’ve completely lost track of time.)  Person 2: It’s eleven o’clock. (We’re already late for class.)

Shakespeare Death Scenes  Shakespeare Death lines 1. Read over the line. 2. Visualize the moment of the character’s death. 3. It’s not important for the death to be accurate. 4. We will go in order and die in order of the # on the lines. 5. You must stay dead until everyone has finished.

Lines: 1. In that Jerusalem shall Harry die. – King Henry IV, Henry IV, Part 2 2. Lay on, Mqcduff, And damn’d be him that first cries, “Hold, enough!” – Macbeth, Macbeth 3. Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet: Mine and my father’s death come not upon thee, Nor thine on me. – Laertes, Hamlet 4. Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die. – Juliet, Romeo and Juliet

5. O, I am slain! If thou be merciful, Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet. – Paris, Romeo and Juliet. 6. Mount, mount, my soul! Thy seat is up on high; whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die. – King Richard II, Richard II 7. O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou mayst revenge. O slave! – Banquo, Macbeth 8. O, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt. – Claudius, Hamlet 9. Caesar, now be still: I kill’d not thee with half so good a will. – Brutus, Julius Caesar 10. Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar. – Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar

11. If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul. – Aaron, Titus Andronicus 12. No, no, the drink, the drink, - I my dear Hamlet, - The drink, the drink! I am poison’d. – Queen Gertrude, Hamlet 13. Behind O, I am slain! – Polonius, Hamlet 14. Now my spirit is going; I can no more. – Mark Antony, Antony and Cleopatra 15. A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! – King Richard III, Richard III 16. What should I stay --- Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra 17. The rest is silence. – Hamlet, Hamlet

18. This is the chase: I am gone for ever. – Antigonus, The Winter’s Tale 19. Why, there they are both, baked in that pie; Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, eating the flesh that she herself hath bred. ‘Tis true, ‘tis true; witness my knife’s sharp point. – Titus Andronicus, Titus Andronicus 20. O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. – Romeo, Romeo and Juliet 21. A plague o’ both your houses! They have made worms’ meat of me: I have it, and soundly too: you houses! – Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet 22. Farewell. Commend me to my kind lord: O, farewell! – Desdemonda, Othello

23. Sun, hide thy beams! Timon hath done his reign. – Timon of Athens, Timon of Athens 24. My heart hath one poor string to stay it by, which holds but till thy news be uttered; and then all this thou seest is but a clodand module of confounded royalty. – King John, King John 25. And my poor fool is hang’d! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all? Thou’lt come no more, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button: thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips, look there, look there! – King Lear, King Lear

In journal:  Rate your comfort level (1-10) at the beginning of this assignment.  Rate your comfort level (1-10) at the end of the activity.  Give one line that you were interested in.  Who was the best actor in the class?  How were you able to use subtext to help convey what you thought the meaning of the line was?

Rehearse your scenes 10 minutes – we will share a few. HW – Scene memorized for next class.