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Well-known facts about Will
• Great writer of England• Plays translated into all
languages, musicals, ballets
• Born Stratford-upon-Avon• Well-to-do, affluent while
alive• Most quoted, other than
the Bible• 37 Plays• 154 sonnets!
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Lesser-known Facts
• Teen father: married pregnant 26 year old Anne Hathaway when he was 18
• Deadbeat dad: Left wife and children for London stage career
• Father of twins• Elizabethan rapper: uses
rhythm and rhyme• Plagiarism?
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Subject Manner
• Bear-baiting• Races• Gambling• Music• Drinking/socializing• Prostitution• Public executions
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Conditions in London-BAD!
• Thames River polluted with raw sewage
• Trees used up for fuel
• Poverty
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Personal hygiene/health
• Bathing considered dangerous
• Body odor strong
• Childhood diseases
• Children often died before 5 years
• Small Pox
• Bubonic Plague
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Living Conditions
• No running water
• Chamber Pots
• Open Sewers
• Crowded
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Clothes
• One set used all year long, rarely washed
• Underclothing slept in, infrequently changed
• Clothes handed down from rich to poor
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Theater in London
• Performed in courtyards of inns
• The Theater-first public theater-1576
• Daytime/open air
• Limited set design
• Relied on music, sound, costumes, props and great description
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The Globe
• Built in 1599• Across the Thames- “Wrong side of town”• King’s Players - Shakespeare’s company• Penny admission• No electricity• Performed in daytime• Exposed to the elements
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Photo of it Rebuilt
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Shakespeare's Globe Theatre has been recreated on the South Bank, about 200 yards from its original site. The new Globe
opened officially on 21 August 1996 with a production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
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The Globe stage, as viewed by the "groundlings."
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The Globe stage, viewed from the wing, stage right. The wide angle lens offers a (somewhat distorted) view of the stage and part
of the groundling area, plus the galleries, and the open sky above.
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What it used to look like
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Actors
• All men• Female parts played
by young boys• No actual kissing or
hugging on stage
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The groundling
• Poor audience member• Stood around stage in
“the pit”• Women not allowed
(had to dress up as men to attend)
• Threw rotten vegetables at bad performances
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Romeo and Juliet
• Tragedy• Written in 1595• Set in Verona, Italy• Themes: parental
control/rebellious teens; fate/freewill; impulsive behavior/self-control
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Play’s source
• Borrowed from a poem by Arthur Brooke-1562 titled, The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Iuliet
• Poem found in French translation by Brooke
• Shakespeare gave story new life and beauty
• He also could have known the popular tale of Romeo and Juliet from a collection by William Painter, entitled The Palace of Pleasure, which was written sometime before 1580
• Story traces back to ancient Greece
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Queen Elizabeth• Bastard daughter of King
Henry VIII
• And Ann Boleyn (2nd of 6 wives)
• Henry had Ann beheaded for “treason”
• Half sister of “Bloody Mary” A Tudor.- A Catholic and very unpopular
• Cousin (Another Mary Queen of Scots- A Stuart)
• She had her executed.
• “Virgin Queen”?
• A tease and a player
• Loved theatre
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Her “loving” parents
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King James I
• Ruled Scotland as James VI
• Mother was Mary, aunt was Elizabeth
• Ruled England, Scotland & Ireland for 22 years
• Father was murdered and mother executed for treason by her own sister!
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The Renaissance
• 1500-1650
• “Rebirth” of arts, culture, science
• Began in Tuscany (Italy)
• Discovery of “New World”
• Copernicus: Sun-centered Universe (1543) as opposed to an Earth-centered one (began scientific revolution.
• King Henry VIII = renaissance man (ideal)
• Reformation of Catholic Church
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