Shakespeare
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- Created on: 12-03-14 20:36
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- Shakespeare
- Context
- The Renaissance
- Rebirth and Renewal
- Order under threat
- Divine right of kings
- Elizabethan Period
- 16th Cenutry
- Globe Theatre
- Open to the sky
- No lighting
- Elaborate Costumes
- Little Props
- Language is KEY!
- Socially mixed audience
- Groundlings paid a penny per entrance
- Seated audience paid higher prices
- The Renaissance
- Language
- Verse
- Blank Verse
- Un-rhymed poetry
- Iambic Pentameter
- Emphasis on important and emotive language
- Variations of meter
- alter expected syllables
- alter expected pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
- dividing a single line between 2 or more syllables
- avoid repetition and keep audience engaged
- Spoken by aristocratic characters
- Blank Verse
- Prose
- Layout on page changes and line continues to the end of the page
- More like a novel or story rather than poetry
- Lower social class speak this
- Comic and informal language
- Layout on page changes and line continues to the end of the page
- Rhetoric
- Wordplay
- Playing around with sounds and meanings
- Involves puns
- Antithesis
- Contrasting of direct opposites
- "heavy lightness"
- Hyperbole
- Use of exaggeration
- Sound
- Alliteration, assonance, onomatopeia
- Parallelism
- Repetition
- Sounds
- individual words
- grammatical constuctions
- Repetition
- Wordplay
- Imagery
- anything appealing to our 5 senses
- figurative
- Similes and metaphors
- repetition emphasizes size and scale
- visual
- Sight
- auditory
- hearing
- tactile
- touch
- Olfctory
- Smell
- gustatory
- taste
- visual
- Dramatic Irony
- When what a character says has an additional dramatic significance because of something that happens alsewhere
- Audience are aware of the event that occurs but character isn't
- When what a character says has an additional dramatic significance because of something that happens alsewhere
- Repetition of words
- Links with themese
- Verse
- Themes
- Order Vs. Disorder
- Opposing sets of values
- Ambiguous endings
- Appearance and reality
- Forms of plays
- History Plays
- Grouped into tetralogies
- Depict a cycle in history
- Order and kingship
- Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Henry V, Richard III
- Grouped into tetralogies
- Comedies
- Romantic Comedies
- Parallel relationships
- comic devices such as disguises and mistake identities
- Serious themes
- Order and Disorder
- Ambiguity
- Stong female characters played by men
- Measure for measure, much ado about nothing
- Romantic Comedies
- Tragedies
- Aristole
- Tragic hero reaches pinnacle hen falls to death due to a tragic flaw
- Catharsis at the end
- final sombre speech
- Othello, King Lear, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra
- History Plays
- Context
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