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Renaissance Theatre
Let’s have fun!
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Medieval and Renaissance
Medieval Drama• Evolved from Church
ceremonies• Miracle Plays
– Saints• Mystery Plays
– Bible History• Morality Plays
– Taught people how to live and die
Renaissance Drama• Moved beyond the Church• Influences from many
sources
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Shakespeare
• Read pages 289-296 • 2 Monarchs during Shakespeare’s career
• Three types of plays
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MacbethThe cursed play
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Written specifically to be performed for, and to please, King James I.
James Stuart was already King James VI of Scotland when Queen Elizabeth's death (1603) made him James I of England as well.
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King James liked witches
• In the late 1500's, Scotland had a witch craze. – Many people convicted
of wicked secret practices without physical evidence.
• James I believed the witch hysteria.– Wrote a book about the
supposed hidden world of wicked witches, entitled Demonology.
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OR, ….
• Maybe James really believed that there was a secretive sect devoted to malicious evil?
• Or, maybe he was just another leader trying to unite people against a common, imagined enemy with different cultural practices?
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One More King James I Link
• Macbeth deals with the fictional ancestors of the Stuart line (Banquo, Fleance) – presents Banquo
more favorably than did the play's sources.
• Procession of kings scene ends with a mirror (fun fact)
• James could see himself, thus becoming part of the action.
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3rd King James Link
• Macbeth assassinates the King of Scotland
• Gunpowder Plot – 1605– Catholics try to
assassinate King James– Blow up King James and
Protestant Parliament– Guy Fawkes
• Now a fun-filled holiday in England
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One more thing you should consider…
• Producing Macbeth is supposed to be unlucky.
• Fires, falls, and weapon injuries have plagued past productions.
• Superstition requires those involved in productions not to say the play's title.– The Scottish Play– Mackers– MacB
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Bad Luck – is it true?
• Legends about the boy actor who first played Lady Macbeth getting sick and Shakespeare having to fill in.
• Theaters closed early 1700’s after people thought the deviltry of the play had caused a bad storm.
• Some people think that the play's vision of evil, with witches, demonic familiars, and so forth explains the bad luck
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Literary Terms / Vocabulary
• Ambiguity, Equivocation• Atmosphere• Blank verse• Catharsis• Contraction• Deus Ex Machina• Foot / meter / Iambic
pentameter / blank verse
• Hamartia• Dramatic irony• Motif• Paradox• Soliloquy• Synecdoche• Tragedy / tragic flaw• Weird (Old English Def.)
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Antimetabole
• Repetition in reverse order
• "You like it; it likes you."
• Fair is foul; foul is fair
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Notes:
• Motifs: – Fair is Foul– Blood– Hands– Clothing– Sight, blindness– Sleep– Gender
• Themes:– Equivocation– Appearances– Ambition– Guilt– Gender
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Macbeth – Tragic Hero
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Macbeth and Banquo
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Act I
• Review questions p. 318 • Blank Verse (p. 318)– Iamb / pentameter– Witches?
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Meter and Foot
• Meter – regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
• Foot – Meter’s basic unit
• Consists of one stressed and one or more unstressed
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Foot Types
2 syllables:• Iamb = unstressed, followed
by a stressed– “relief” / “respect”
• Trochee – stressed, followed by an unstressed – “bummer” / “Passler”
3 syllables:• Dactyl = stressed, followed
by 2 unstressed – “ecstacy”
• Anapest = 2 unstressed, followed by a stressed– “contradict”
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Metrical Length
• Number of the feet each line contains– Monometer: one foot– Dimeter: two feet– Trimeter: three feet– Tetrameter: four feet– Pentameter: five feet– Hexameter: six feet– Heptameter: seven feet
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Put them all together
• Iambic Pentameter = 5 iambs– Unstressed/stressed
pattern used five times in each line
– “I dare do all that may become a man”
• Blank Verse: Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter
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Homework
• Scan your name• Are you naturally musical (fits a pattern)?– Jennifer = Dactyl – Passler = Trochee– If I wanted my name to fit a pattern• Jennifer Passaler = Dactyl Dimeter
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Order and Chaos – Elizabethan Style
• When this order is out of order = Chaos
• Duncan’s killing/murder causes disturbances in nature– A horrible act (lying,
stealing, killing) = storms, earthquakes, physical harm
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Knocking at the Gate
• Read the essay on pages 330-331.
• What is De Quincy’s main point?
• How does Macbeth’s transfiguration confirm his role as the tragic hero?
• Continual Knocking– Why?
• What is gained• What is lost?
• Porter– Why?
• What is gained• What is lost?
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Act II
• Review questions p. 333
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Act III
• Review questions p. 351
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Murder of Lady Macduff
• Macbeth’s actions become less grand– Duncan’s murder – tragically grand– Banquo’s murder – melodramtic– Lady Macduff – creepy, ghoulish
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Act IV, Scene 3, p. 359-364
• Malcolm and Macduff meet• Macduff was a friend of Macbeth• Malcolm is suspicious• Macduff says, “hey Malcolm, you should be king.”• Read Malcolm’s response, lines 50-66• Macduff says, “Oh no – yuck!”• Malcolm says, “Surprise – I was testing you!”• Let’s go get Macbeth! (10,000 Englishman)
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ACT IV, Sc. 3 – Royal’s Touch
In Macbeth• King Edward (England,
1003-1066)• Heals people with his touch• Real King = placed by God –
could do that
King James (England/Scotland – early 1600’s)
• Performed the Royal’s Touch
• Read page 367
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Act IV
• Review questions p. 369
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Act V
• Review questions page 388-89