Warm-up 10/23/12

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Warm-up 10/23/12

• Re-write the following paragraph, combining or
  separating the sentences.
• William Shakespeare was baptized April 26, 1564
  in Stratford-upon-Avon England from roughly 1594
  onward he was an important member of the Lord
  Chamberlains Men company of theatrical players
  written records give little indication of the way
  in which Shakespeares professional life molded
  his artistry all that can be deduced is that over
  the course of 20 years Shakespeare wrote plays
  that capture the complete range of human emotion
  and conflict

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Renaissance

• Started in Italy,14th-16th century
• Rebirthrenewed interest in classical learning
  (ancient Greece and Rome)
• Curiosity and creativity
• Renaissance Man an person who is interested
  in and good at various subjects
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vPir_H7kf_JU

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Humanists

• Stressed insight and reasoning, not just rote
  memorization
• Valued learning from classical sources that were
  Pre-Christian
• Didnt just have to learn though the Bible
• Humanities philosophy, history, languages, the
  arts
• Focus on human reason, not just strict faith

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Start of Protestant Reformation

• 1535 - Henry VIII wanted an annulment of his
  marriage to his first wife
• Had been married to his brother he wanted a male
  heir wanted to marry his favorite
• Pope refused
• Henry declared head of Church of England
• Threatened those that didnt conform
• Several wanted to stay faithful to Catholic Church

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• People were dissatisfied with the reformed
  church.
• Wasnt reformed enough too many traditions still
  present.
• Puritans, Baptists, Presbyterians
• Faith was a matter between the individual and
  God.
• Henry VIII was survived by 3 children
• His one son died his daughter, whom he neglected
  because she was female, became the greatest ruler
  England would ever have.

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Elizabeth I

• Reestablished Church of England
• Was excommunicated by Pope
• Resisted marriage all her life
• The Virgin Queen
• Renaissance time when England gained their own
  national and religious identity
• Elizabeth was loved
• Inspired authors

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Posters

• Group 1 Christopher Marlowe 258 and The
  Passionate Shepherd to His Love
• Group 2 Sir Walter Raleigh 260 and The Nymphs
  Reply to the Shepherd
• Group 3 Robert Herrick 264 and To the Virgins,
  to Make Much of Time
• Group 4 Andrew Marvell 266 and To His Coy
  Mistress
• Group 5 William Shakespeare 272 and Sonnet 130
• Group 6 Songs from Shakespeare 286 and Blow,
  Blow Thou Winter Wind

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Poster Criteria

• Title
• Summary of reading/author
• Write poem and annotate it
• Theme
• Illustration

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William Shakespeare

• He is the most famous writer in the world, but
  he left us no journals or lettershe left us only
  his poems and his plays.

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Shakespeare Childhood

• 1564 William Shakespeare born in
  Stratford Upon Avon.
• One of 8 siblings.
• Attended grammar school.
• Studied Latin grammar,
  Latin literature, and rhetoric.

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Shakespeare Early Life

• Married Anne Hathaway at 18
  years old.
• Had three children.
• A daughter and two twins.
• Left family to move to
  London.

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Shakespeare Career

• Becomes an actor and playwright by 1592.
• Employed by Kings Men.
• Officially professional playwright.
• Massive plague causes theaters to close down
  (1592-1594).
• Shakespeare turns to poetry.

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Shakespeares Success

• Romeo and Juliet one of his earlier plays.
• Written between 1594 and 1596.
• Retired in 1612.
• Had written 37 plays.
• Masterpieces include Julius Caesar, Hamlet,
  Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.

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Shakespeares Success (cont.)

• During a Broadway season of Othello, one critic
  remarked that Shakespeare would be making 25,000
  a week in royalties for each performance.

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Shakespeares Success Today

• Indeed, so absolute is Shakespeares achievement
  that he has himself come to seem like great
  creating nature the common bond of humankind,
  the principle of hope, the symbol of the
  imaginations power to transcend time-bound
  beliefs and assumptions, peculiar historical
  circumstances, and specific artistic
  conventions.
• Stephen Greenblatt

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Shakespeares Theater Origins

• 1576 James Burbage builds the first permanent
  theater in England.
• Plays typically performed in courtyards.
• 1599 Theater is torn down and rebuilt by
  Shakespeare and his actors.

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The Globe Theater

• Large, round building three stories high.
• Large platform stage under an open sky.
• Curtained off inner stage.
• Trapdoors were placed in the floor of main stage.
• Very few sets.
• Sets established by the language.

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The Globe Theater

• All social classes present.
• Plays performed by all-male casts.
• Not a proscenium stage.
• No outer stage, only the inner stage like
  looking in a window.

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Shakespeare End of Life

• 1616 William Shakespeare becomes ill and dies.
• In his will, he leaves his wife his second best
  bed.
• Strange or thoughtful? You decide!

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The Magic of Theatre

• Playwrights have been tempted to write plays
  that imitate the style of movies. But this
  imitation rarely works. Theater and movies are
  different media. A theater audience does not
  necessarily want to be whisked form place to
  place The theater is a medium of words. When we
  go to see a play, it is the movement of the words
  rather than the scenery that delight us.