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Julius Caesar
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Shakespeare Background
• Wrote in bars and pubs because:•
Free light from candles• Cheap food•
Inspiration
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Globe Theater
• Nicknamed “The Wooden O”•
Pennystinkers/
Lower Class•
First level– closest to the stage•
Middle Class•
At the bottom, on the benches behind the Pennystinkers
• Royalty/ Clergy•
Upper two levels, away from Pennystinkers
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Levels of Shakespearean Writing
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Sex/ love/ magic/ innuendo– Lowest or basest level. For the uneducated.•
Plot– for the middle class & those that want to know first and foremost what happens.•
Poetic Language– Reserved for the educated, usually the clergy or royalty.•
Universal Truths– Reserved for those that think and are educated. (Critics, clergy, and/or royalty)
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Types of Writings
• Shakespeare wrote • Sonnets•
Three types of plays• Histories• Tragedies•
Comedies
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Sonnets
• 14 lines long•
Written in iambic pentameter• 3 quatrains•
1 couplet• Usually about love•
Written to the “Dark Lady”•
Could be an older female lover•
Could be a young royal
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Histories
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Tell the history of the kings of England
• Boring for American students
• Often ignored
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Tragedies
Five Elements• Very Important People •
(e.g., kings, princes, movers and shakers in Renaissance society)•
Very Important Things•
(e.g., wars, coronations, marriages, battles as the story begins)•
Tragic hero with a tragic flaw•
Tragic flaw– A personality defect that will cause the protagonist’s downfall.
• Magic or fantasy •
(e.g., ghosts, magical storms, witches, or witchcraft)•
Hero dies
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Comedies
Five elements:•
End well and not necessarily funny•
Usually end in at least one marriage•
Bestiality• Confused gender/ identity•
Magic or fairy involvement
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Poetry Terms
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Monologue– One person speaking on stage •
E.g., Antony’s speech to the plebeians about Caesar•
Soliloquy– A long speech wherein a character tells his innermost thoughts and feelings.•
e.g., Antony speaks aloud to himself after he shakes all the conspirators’ hands and tells of his plans for vengeance.
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Aside– One person telling the audience something in a short statement.•
Tragic flaw– A personality trait that leads to the downfall of the protagonist in a Shakespearean tragedy.•
Brutus is gullible and trusts the wrong people.
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Act I, scene i
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Tribunes and cobbler argue about the cobbler’s job•
Example of a pun•
Pun– A play on words•
Aimed at Level I Pennystinkers•
Caesar just won a major victory against the sons of Pompey and is about to have a triumph through the streets of Rome.•
Tribunes don’t like Caesar
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Act I, scene ii
• Soothsayer warns Caesar of March 15•
Brutus and Cassius fear Caesar becoming king•
King = Dictatorship•
Cassius is prepared to assassinate Caesar, but Brutus isn’t so sure•
Caesar doesn’t trust Cassius•
Caesar refuses the crown three times•
Cassius decides to trick Brutus with paper
SMART Notebook
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Quotable Quotes: I, ii
SOOTHSAYER: “Beware the Ides of March!”
CASSIUS: "Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear
Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."
CAESAR: “Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek‐headed men and such as sleep o' nights:Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”
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Act I scene iii•
Scene opens with a huge, fantastic storm•
(Example of one of five elements in tragedy)•
Pathetic fallacy
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Cassius convinces Casca to join in his plot to kill Caesar
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Cassius tells Cinna to throw a piece of paper through Brutus’ window
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Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero, I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds
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Act II, scene i
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Brutus is unsure as to kill Caesar or not until his servant brings him the paper Cassius tricked him with to the orchard•
Brutus agrees to the plot, but says they shouldn’t kill Antony, too, because it will “seem too bloody”•
Portia notices that Brutus is acting strangely, but doesn’t know about the assassination
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Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,Like wrath in death and envy afterwards;For Antony is but a limb of Caesar:Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
Dwell I but in the suburbs
Of your good pleasure? If it be no more,
Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife.
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Act II, scene ii
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Calpurnia is worried (like Portia) and asks Caesar not to go to the senate•
Calpurnia’s dream = Supernatural and symbolic element of a tragedy•
Caesar agrees until Decius appeals to his sense of pride and vanity•
Decius tells Caesar the senate is going to offer him a crown•
Caesar is convinced to go
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Quotable Quotes
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CAESAR:"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.”
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Act II, scene iii
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The scholar Artemidorous discovers the plot and writes down the names of the guilty on a piece of paper
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Act II, scene iv
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Portia is again worried about Brutus
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Soothsayer comes by and again tries to warn Caesar
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