2. Shakesp eare EQ: HOW CAN I UNDERSTAND SHAKESPEARE & APPLY IT TO MY LIFE? Shakespeare, alias the Bard EQ: How can I apply Shakespeare to today’s world or the world of early America?

3. Times  Elizabethan Age (era of peace after 100 Years War with France & the War of Roses, a civil war in England)... Time & money for the arts  Renaissance... Revival of learning and the arts... Mythological allusions... Greek unities... Many languages known to the learned

4. Theater: Finance  Sponsors, or patrons (Lord Chamberlain’s Men to the King’s Men)  Business savvy (Queen Elizabeth & King James I – witches/demons/obedience to king)... Same King James as KJV of Bible  Groundlings paid 1 penny & stood for 3 hrs. (wanted violence, bawdiness, & humor)  People in balconies paid far more.

5. Theater: Details  Times: 2 p.m. (flag/light)  Suspension (plague)  Lay-out (thrust stage surrounded by open floor & tiers of balconies) pit – musicians belltower – sound effects 8 or 16-sided called the Globe or “The Big O” outer stage = outside inner stage = inside balcony = bedroom trapdoors in stage = demon/witch drop down from air = angel/fairy

6. Flags  Black: tragedy  White: comedy  Red: history

9. Suspension of Disbelief  Def’n = when a reader doesn’t believe but chooses not to disbelieve in order to enter into a story  Required in fantasy and sci-fi, perhaps in adventure/action  Examples: THE TERMINATOR, SPIDERMAN, JAMES BOND

10. Dramatic Conventions = non-realistic techniques that we accept in order to enter into the story  Verse drama (iambic pentameter) vs. prose (Prose indicated commoner, stupidity or strong emotion usually.) Shakespeare’s view of commoners  Costumes: anachronistic  Actors: men played all parts; acting = disreputable career  Cues: couplet to signal end of scene  Props: minimal!! A viewer had to use his/her imagination. 1 twig = forest; 1 candle = night  Stage

11. Name a modern-day dramatic convention in movies. Telescoping Bird’s eye view

12. Shakespeare’s Legacy  Theater  Universal characters, conflicts, & themes  Vocabulary (assassination, bump, and lonely) & aphorisms/quotes (“What’s done is done.” “Sweets for the sweet.” “Dead as a doornail.” “For goodness’ sake.”)  Shakespearean words/phrases Shakespearean words/phrases  Shakespearean insults Shakespearean insults