February 2, 2011

Bellwork- Write at least three things you know (or think you know) about William Shakespeare.

Agenda: Pray (Prayer Group @ 7:25 tomorrow)

Turn in BEST LOTF AP Practice (single sheet) for a grade

Notes on William Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Era

REMINDERS: Thursday- Bring King Lear and Perrine book.

Friday- Shakespeare Quiz; LOTF Final Essay

Monday- King Lear Act I; Poetry Response on Romeo and Juliet sonnet

William Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Era

Shakespeare’s LifeBorn in April 23, 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon in England

Married Anne Hathaway (1582) when he was 18 and she was 26 (and pregnant- gasp!).

Had three children (a daughter and a set of fraternal twins, one of whom died at age 11)

Shakespeare was a successful member of Lord Chamberlain’s theater company

Become part owner of Globe Theatre in 1599 (Globe burns down in 1613)

Died on his birthday in 1616 at age 52.

The Early Years

The Globe Theatre

Elizabethan World Picture

Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare

The Six Hierarchies Macrocosm (Scientific)

Earth is center of universeThe Fall explained deficient universeSuperlunary (above moon, perfect, unchanging)Sublunary (below moon, imperfect, disease, death)

The Great Chain of Being (Philosophical)- OVERHEAD

Shakespeare uses primates to elevate charactersHumans link between angels (pure reason) and animals (pure “passion”)Humans have three souls

Vegetative (liver)Animal (heart)Rational (brain)

The Six Hierarchies

The Six Hierarchies

PoliticalKingNoblesAristocratsCitizens

SocialFatherMotherChildrenPatriarchal nuclear family (woman belonged to father then husband)Shakespeare sympathetic with rebellious children and assertive women

The Six Hierarchies

Microcosm (Psychological)Human being/individualDisorder in microcosm leads to disorder in macrocosmRational soul rules microcosm

The Six Hierarchies

Theory of Humors (Medical)All humans contain the four humors in their bloodPredominance of one humor = personality type

Black bile = melancholyPhlegm = apathetic, lethargicBlood = sanguine (cheerful, optimistic)Yellow bile = choleric (hot-tempered, ambitious)

Quiz Friday

Know biographical info on WS

Basic info on the Globe Theatre

Know the six hierarchies (be able to match each one to its “type” and to describe Great Chain of Being and Theory of Humors)

Basic info on Queen Elizabeth

Shakespearean Sonnets

14-line poem, usually focused on love, time, beauty3 quatrains, 1 couplet

Often there is a shift in the third quatrain

Rhyme scheme: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GGRhymed iambic pentameter

Five “feet” of unstressed-stressed meter

The Palmer’s Sonnet from R & J

T (Title)

P (Paraphrase)

C (Connotation): Focus on sonnet form, extended metaphor (conceit- An elaborate or unusual comparison), diction

A (Attitude)

S (Shift)

T (Title)

T (Theme)

Review of Aristotle’s Tragedy

Plotwhole (beginning, middle, end)

structurally self-contained

of a certain magnitude

peripeteia and anagnorisis

Characternobility

hamartia

hubris

fall of great person from fortune to misfortune- sudden and ends in death

Tragedy cont.

WorldUniverse is in disorder

Balance between belief in order and belief that world is absurd produces great tragedy

Audience Responsearouses pity/terror

sense of sympathy for tragic figure