Shakespeare Background – Grade 10

England in Shakespeare’s Day [p. 683]
• William Shakespeare is the greatest __Writer_____ of all time.
• He lived in the country of _________England________________ during the
__________Renaissance__________________.
• He was born in the year ____1564____, when _________Elizabeth I______________ was queen of England.
• England was established as a world power in 1588, when English defeated an attempted invasion by _____________Spanish__________ _______Armada___________.
• Plays in which dialogue is mostly poetry is called ______Verse______ _____Drama______.

Theatre in Shakespeare’s Day [p.684]
• In the 1590’s, Shakespeare’s theater group was called the ____Lord________
_______Chamberlain's________________ ____Men______.
• The new London home of the group was a place called the _____Globe________ Theater.
• When Queen Elizabeth I died, the group’s new sponsor was ______King James I____________, and the group changed its name to The ______KIngs__________ _____Men_______.
• The Globe Theater was located on the banks of the ______Thames_________ River.
• The theatre was __3____ stories high, made of ___wood______, and could hold as many as _____three thousand______ spectators. Customers, called ________groundlings______ stood in the pit by the stage and paid t he lowest price for admission. Richer patrons sat in balconies, also called ______galaries________.
• Most theatres in that day had no artificial ______lighting________ or _____heating_________, so performances were given in ________daylight____________ in warmer weather.

Many commonly quoted phrases came from Shakespeare’s plays. Some examples are:
______"freinds, Romans, Countrymen lend me your ears ____ from ___Julius Caesar________________.
__"O Romeo Romeo Where Art the Romeo_______________ from _____
Romeo and Juliet.
____"To be or not ot be_________________________________________ from _____Hamlet______________.


Define these terms found on p. 686-688.
1. verse dramas – PLays in which the dialogue consists almost entirely of poetry
2. blank verse - unrhymed lines
3. iambic pentameter – Fixed pattern of rythmths
4. soliloquy – A long speach given by a character while alone on stage
5. aside – character quiet remark to the audience or another character.
6. rhetorical devices – uses languages and spunds to appeal through audiences emotions
1) the repition of words and sounds
2) parallelism, or repeated gramatical structures
3) rhetorical questions or questions requireing no answer
7. irony – exsists when the is a contrast between appearence and reality
8. dramatic irony – the audience or reader knows something that one or more characters do not know
9. pun –the humorous use of a word in such a way to sugest a different meaning
10. allusion – an implied or indirect reference

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You should also know:
1. ambition – a strong design for status fame or power
2. vanity – something that is in vain
3. envy – powerful or resistance awareness of advantage enjoyed by another
4. revenge – to inflict injury in return for.

In your opinion, is it right to ask a close friend to do something dangerous? Explain.
(Write a paragraph): No, as fun as danger can be, sometimes it is not right to ask a close friend to risk thier health for your own amusement. in other words, i dont think you would be a very good friend if you did.