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Shakespeare 9 English and 9 English H

Objective: I can take notes about Shakespeare.

Who is Shakespeare? Take Notes

Who was Shakespeare? Born April 26, 1564 Died April 23 1616 Playwright and poet. 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613.His early plays were primarily comedies and histories, and are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres. Then, until about 1608, he wrote mainly tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances), and collaborated with other playwrights.

Why is he important today? His work is super old! Died 400 years ago but….. You quote him on a regular basis. If you have ever said “It’s Greek to me,” suffered from “green-eyed jealousy,” “stood on ceremony,” been “tongue-tied,” “hoodwinked” or “in a pickle,” you are quoting Shakespeare. His works are universal and enduring, as are his characters.

Sonnets Around 154 Shakespearean sonnets that were written. Some claim that Shakespeare did not write them, but his name is still on them. They were passionate and dramatic. Shakespeare was usually all up in the feels. Sonnets 1 to 126 are addressed to a young man known as the “fair youth”. Between sonnets 127 and 152, a woman enters the story and becomes the poet’s muse. She is described as a “dark lady” with unconventional beauty. The final two sonnets in the collection, sonnets 153 and 154, are completely different. The lovers disappear and the poet muses on the Roman myth of Cupid. These sonnets act as a conclusion.

Shakespeare Notes Shakespeare‘s sonnets are called Shakespearean or Elizabethan sonnets. A sonnet is a lyric poem consisting of fourteen lines. Lyric-expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.

Shakespeare Notes Continued A Shakespearean or Elizabethan sonnet contains three quatrains (four lines each) and a final rhyming couplet (two lines). A quatrain is one of three four-line stanzas in a Shakespearean sonnet. A couplet is the final two rhyming lines in a Shakespearean sonnet. The Shakespearean sonnet Rhyme Scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, gg

From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed’st thy light’st flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding. Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.

Listening to A Sonnett https://vimeo.com/44793685

Shakespeare Notes Shakespearean sonnets use the meter of iambic pentameter. The meter of a poem is its rhythm of accented or unaccented syllables organized into patterns called feet An Iamb is a a foot consisting of two syllables, one unaccented (unstressed) and one accented (stressed)

Shakespeare Notes Pentameter means five feet (pent is the Greek word for five). So each line in the sonnet contains five iambs. An unaccented syllable is identified with a: U An accented syllable is identified with a: / Therefore, if an iamb contains two syllables, and there are five total iambs in each line, the total number of syllables per line in a Shakespearean sonnet is 10!

Shakespeare Notes Why iambic pentameter? Firstly, it reflects the natural rhythm of the human heartbeat. Secondly, it is the rhythm most common to our natural way of speaking.

Shakespeare dictionary art = are dost = do doth = does 'ere = before hast = have 'tis = it is 'twas = it was aught = anything yon, yonder = that one there would (he were) = I wish (he were) marry = (a mild swear word) nay = no hie = hurry wast = were whence = from where wherefore = why hence = from here oft = often yea = even ay = yes

Shakespeare insults “Villain, I have done thy mother’- This line is from Titus Andronicus - Act IV, Scene ii. “Thou art a boil, a plague sore”- King Lear - Act II, Scene ii. “Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon”- Timon of Athens - Act IV, Scene iii. “Would thou wouldst burst!”- Timon of Athens - Act IV, Scene iii. “The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril”- The Merry Wives of Windsor - Act III, Scene v. “Away, you three-inch fool!”- The Taming of the Shrew - Act III, Scene iii.

Shakespeare Language Translate: Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. The lady doth protest too much, methinks https://lingojam.com/EnglishtoShakespearean` http://insult.dream40.org