Thursday, November 13th

Assessments:

1. Agree/Disagree

2. Tragedy is NOT a joke!

3. Othello: Act I

Assignments:

CHANGE - Monday: • Narrative R.D. &

F.D.

NEXT Friday: • Reading Log 2

Topic: Othello: Agree/DisagreeLevel: Analyze; Synthesize

On Your Desk: • Square from

yesterday (for warm up and ticket out)

Revenge is sometimes justified.

I could never forgive a boy/girlfriend for cheating on me.

It is worth compromising your morals in order to gain what you think you truly deserve.

First impressions are a good indicator of the real person.

Absolute truth is not essential to a strong relationship

It’s okay to get married without your family’s approval.

Ticket Out On the back of your warm-up:

1. Select one of the prompts and write your views. Why do you agree or disagree? 2-3 complete sentences.

2. Based on the previous prompts, what can you assume the play Othello is about?

3. If you’re correct, does this seem like an interesting play? Explain your answer.

Quick Write

Why so serious???

1. List the titles of 3 of the most tragic movies you’ve ever seen (or seen recently). Say what you thought was tragic about each.

2. What kinds of things make you sad, in real life?

3. Why???

4. I’m sad now. Tell me a joke.

Historical Terms

1. Elizabethan: related the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, England’s queen from 1558 - 1603

2. The Rose: Elizabethan theater owned by Philip Henslowe

3. The Curtain: Elizabethan theater owned by James and Richard Burbage

4. playhouse: a theater

5. player: an actor (all Elizabethan players were men, by law)

6. Lord Chamberlain’s Men: Shakespeare’s theater company

OVERVIEW

of

Shakespearean Comedy

Shakespeare wrote plays in 4 genres:

comedies

tragedies

histories

romances

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TITLES

• Comedy titles refer to situations instead of individuals.

– Taming of the Shrew– A Midsummer Night’s

Dream– As You Like It– Much Ado About

Nothing– Measure for Measure– Twelfth Night

• Histories and tragedies refer to individuals:

– Hamlet– Macbeth– Romeo and Juliet– Othello– Henry IV– Henry V– Richard III

OVERVIEW

of

Shakespearean ComedyTragedy Is Not Pretty

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Tragedy is not a joke.

• Conventions of Tragedy:

–Action moves from a state of order to disorder

–Unity to disunity and, finally, death

–A protagonist of high estate moves from prosperity to misery . . .

–brought about by the protagonist’s tragic flaw, usually a form of hubris.

–Unlike classical (Greek) tragedy, it includes subplots and comic relief.

Tragedy is still not a joke.

• HUBRIS:

–Haughtiness, pride, arrogance

–Overestimation of one’s own influence, power, destiny

–Lack of self awareness

–A weird kind of naiveté about how the world really works

Tragedy: not funny.• Thematic Topics

1. Disorder (caused by human flaws)

2. Free will (vs. fate, destiny)

3. Self awareness (lack thereof; what it means to be human)

4. Illusion vs. reality

5. Sanctity of life

• Poetic Form

1. Blank verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter

2. Couplet: two successive lines of poetry that end rhyme

3. Prose: low-born characters speak this

4. Soliloquy: a thinky speech, delivered when the character is alone (or alone-ish) onstage; usually in blank verse

Tragedy is also not a joke.

• Dramatic Structure:

–Act I: Exposition (conflict and characters introduced)

–Act II: Rising Action (complications deepen)

–Act III: Climax (protagonist commits the irrevocable deed)

–Act IV: Falling Action (protagonist “falls” further into / toward catastrophe)

–Act V: Catastrophe (resolution) (everybody dies)

Othello – Act I

Calling all players!

Brabantio: Cole

Roderigo: Micah

Iago: Anthony

Othello: Kaelen

Officer: Anna

Duke: Krztoff