Why Shakespeare? "He was not of an age, but for all time!“ – Ben Jonson

When you think SHAKESPEARE what comes to mind? 30 seconds! GO!

What do we already know?

3 teams During the following presentation, write down every fact possible about Shakespeare, his works, and his times You will have 2 minutes to write down your compiled facts on the whiteboard The team with the most facts gets HOMEWORK PASSES

You’re quoting Shakespeare if… If you think this is neither here nor there, If you cannot understand my argument, and declare "It's Greek to me", if your lost property has vanished into thin air,

if you have ever refused to budge an inch or suffered from green-eyed jealousy, if you have played fast and loose, If you have been tongue-tied, hoodwinked or in a pickle,

If… insisted on fair play, slept not one wink, laughed yourself into stitches, Or had too much of a good thing, if you have seen better days if you ever clear out bag and baggage,

if you think it is high time and that that is the long and short of it, if you believe that the game is up and if you lie low because you suspect foul play,

If… if you have your teeth set on edge (at one fell swoop) without rhyme or reason, if you bid me good riddance and send me packing, if you wish I were dead as a door-nail,

if you think I am an eyesore, a laughing stock, the devil incarnate, a stony- hearted villain, bloody-minded or a blinking idiot, then - by Jove! O Lord! Tut, tut! for goodness' sake! what the dickens! but me no buts - it is all one to me, for you are quoting Shakespeare. (The Story of English, abbreviated)

Shakespeare wrote… 884,647 words and 118,406 lines 38 plays And the Oxford English Dictionary attributes more than 500 words to Shakespeare’s creation ◦Neologism: A new word, coinage, or expression

Movies based on Shakespeare Plays Joe Macbeth (1953) - Macbeth Kiss Me Kate (1953) - The Taming of the Shrew Throne of Blood (1957) - Macbeth West Side Story (1961) - Romeo and Juliet Ran (1985) - King Lear My Own Private Idaho (1991) - 1 Henry IV A Thousand Acres (1997) - King Lear 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) - The Taming of the Shrew Scotland, Pa. (2001) - Macbeth O (2001) - Othello

History of English Sigh no more Romeo/juliet love scene West side Story To be or not to be d d The Tempest trailer Gnomeo and Juliet u u 10 things I hate Taming shrew begin at 1:30 I hate men kiss me kate

… a few of Shakespeare’s neologisms… … a few of Shakespeare’s neologisms… PUKE : from As You Like It, when the character of Jacques describes the stages of a man’s life, the first one being when he is an infant, “Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms”(II.vii.144). FRUGAL : The Merry Wives of Windsor, Mistress Page is surprised when she receives a love letter from someone she thinks would have been unimpressed with the reserved manner she showed when he was in her presence. She says, “Why, he hath not been thrice in my company!”, and she adds, “I was then frugal of my mirth” (II ).

OBSCENE : A character who has seen another consorting with a woman comments in the comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost on how he came to “encounter that obscene and most prepost’rous event” (I.i ). LUGGAGE: 1 Henry IV, Prince Hal kills another main character, Hotspur, in battle, but Hal’s advisor Falstaff finds the body and wants to claim it for a reward. Hal tells Falstaff, “Come bring your luggage nobly on your back” (V.iv.156). Gnarled : appears in the play Measure for Measure, when the heroine Isabella pleads on behalf of her brother to the character Angelo and addresses heaven, from which the power of lightning “with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt/Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak” (II.ii ).

Your A Midsummer Night’s Dream journal Will have 3 organized sections (dividers/cardstock/fasteners/images provided by Mrs. Paxton) 1. Warm-Ups (provided by Mrs. Paxton) ◦Grammar/Shakespeare vocabulary 2. Essay Preparation (provided by Mrs. Paxton) ◦Character mapping/citation log 3. Notes (notebook paper provided by YOU) ◦Note-taking/exit tickets Your journal will be used for English and Literacy class and collected periodically by Mrs. Paxton and graded on completion By March 23 I expect your journal to be assembled and ready to use