HAPPY FRIDAY! Get out your phones and something to write with today!

VOCABULARY USE YOUR PHONES TO DEFINE THESE WORDS. REMEMBER-USE THE BEST DEFINITION FOR SHAKESPEARE'S TIME.  Groundling:  Prose:  Quill:  Rank:  Word Wright: someone who makes up words.  Chamber Pot:  Anon:

VOCABULARY  Groundling: (in Elizabethan theatre) a spectator standing in the yard in front of the stage and paying least  Prose: the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse  Quill: a feather, as of a goose, formed into a pen for writing  Rank: a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.  Word Wright: someone who makes up words.  Chamber Pot: a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.  Anon: In a short time; soon

 All ears  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder  Bite your tongue  Burn the midnight oil  Cat got your tongue?  Feather in your cap  Fish out of water  Get off the hook  Handwriting was on the wall  Hold your horses  In hot water  In the limelight  Keep up with the Joneses  Little pitchers have big ears  Lose your shirt  Make ends meet  More than meets the eye  Not your cup of tea  On cloud nine  On pins and needles  Play with fire  Pull the wool over your eyes  Rat Race  Red-Letter Day  Rock the boat  Sink or swim  Throw in the towel  Wet behind the ears  You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.

BAWDY:  Adjective  Humorous in a vulgar or coarse way  Shakespeare’s comedic scenes are often bawdy.

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE  Anybody seen it?  Rated R—I will skip the naughty bits.  Take notes now on the plot summary!

PLOT SUMMARY: Shakespeare is a struggling playwright in London. He needs money, and sold his brand new upcoming play to two different people. Uh oh! They both think they have exclusive rights to the play. To make matters worse, Shakespeare has writers’ block, and hasn’t even written this play yet! He’s about to be in big trouble.

PLOT SUMMARY: This is one of the guys Shakespeare sold his play to. His name is Philip Henslow, and he later ends up helping Shakespeare with the play.

PLOT SUMMARY: Meanwhile, the beautiful and noble Viola de Lesseps loves the theater and wants to be an actress. Unfortunately for her, women aren’t allowed on the stage! So she dresses up like a boy and auditions for Shakespeare’s new play.

PLOT SUMMARY: Well, as you can imagine, Shakespeare soon sees through her disguise and they fall in love. But it’s not all smooth sailing! She is engaged to be married to the boring and evil Lord Wessex. Doesn’t he look like a doofus?

PLOT SUMMARY: Comedy and tragedy result, and I bet you’ll be surprised how it all shakes out in the end.

Real:  Stuff about the theater back then.  Most stuff about Queen Elizabeth (although she had the plays brought to her)  The “feel” and the big picture about what theater was like back then SO WHAT’S REAL? Made up:  Viola (sorry!)  The whole love story between Sh. and Viola.  Lord Wessex  Many specific details

NOTES: ON THE BACK During the movie: Take notes about similarities and differences between:notes  Theater then and theater now (include: who goes, acting, scripts, buildings, money, celebrity)  Romance and love then and now  Language then and now  The roles of women and men in society then and now One full page of notes required PER DAY!