1. Widely regarded as the greatest writer in English literature

2. How could 1 person write all that in a lifetime?

4. Built 1598; opened 1599
Burned down in 1613 from a cannon blast during a play
Rebuilt and opened in 1614
Closed by Puritans in 1624
torn down in 1644.

6. Only men and boys
Young boys whose voices had not changed play women’s roles
Considered indecent for a woman to appear on stage

7. Wealthy got benches
“Groundlings”-poorer people stood and watched from the courtyard (“pit”)

8. 2 pennies to sit in the balcony Broadway Today:
1 English penny to stand
2 pennies to sit in the balcony
Broadway Today:
$85 Orchestra
$60 Balcony

9. Monologues, dialogues, asides, soliloquies, all used in Elizabethan
drama

10. Shakespeare used it in many plays
unrhymed verse in iambic pentameter
(more on this later)

11. Humorous use of a word with two meanings, often sexual innuendo
Shakespeare loved to use them!!!

12. Use of comedy within literature that is NOT a comedy to provide “relief” from seriousness or sadness.

13. Shakespearean Comedy A greater influence of situation than characters
A struggle of young lovers to overcome difficulty, often presented by elders
Separation and re-unification
Deception among characters (especially mistaken identity)
A clever servant
Disputes between characters, often within a family
Multiple, intertwining plots
Puns/dry humor
Pastoral elements– rural life
Happy endings

14. Comedy All’s Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
The Winter’s Tale

15. A drama that tells the story of the fall of a person of high status.
A serious work that tells the story of a tragic hero in the face of inevitable doom.
A tragic flaw is a personal weakness that brings about the fall of a character in a tragedy.

16. character flaw OR A combination of the two
Drama where the central character suffers great misfortune due to:
fate
character flaw OR A combination of the two

17. Tragedy Richard III Romeo and Juliet Julius Caesar Hamlet Othello
Timon of Athens
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra

19. Reflection
Describe your experience with Shakespeare last year. Do you find his writing easy/hard? Do you like/dislike? Any other information you would like to share? Etc.
List 3 new things you learned about Shakespeare from this PowerPoint.