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Well-known Facts about Will
• One of greatest writers of England
• Plays translated into all languages, musicals, ballets
• Born Stratford-upon-Avon
• Well-to-do, affluent most of the time while alive
• Most quoted, next to the Bible
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 3 kids including twins Hamnet and Judith
• Hamnet died at age 11• Elizabethan rapper: uses rhythm
and rhyme• “Plagiarism” ? Based plays of
Greek plays and other works—some say stole work from other playwrights of his time.
Competitions of the time 1500 – 1600 hundreds
• Bear-baiting• Races• Gambling• Music• Drinking/socializing• Prostitution• Public executions
Conditions in London-HORRIBLE!
• Thames River polluted with raw sewage
• Trees used up for fuel
• Extreme Poverty
• Lack of clean water
Personal hygiene/health
• Bathing considered dangerous
• Body odor strong
• Childhood diseases
• Children often died before 5 years
• Small Pox
• Bubonic Plague
Living Conditions• No running
water• Chamber Pots
(Ladies walked on inside or right)
• 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
The Globe
• Built in 1599
• Across the Thames (Tams)- “Wrong side of town”
• King’s Players - Shakespeare’s company
• Penny admission
Actors
• All men• Female parts played
by young boys• No actual kissing or
hugging on stage• Women not allowed
on stage until after 1660.
The groundlings
• Poor audience member• Stood around stage in
“the pit” (on the ground)
• Women not allowed (had to dress up as men to attend)
• Threw rotten vegetables at bad performances
Romeo and Juliet
• Tragedy• Written in 1595• Set in Verona, Italy• Themes: parental
control/rebellious teens; fate/freewill; impulsive behavior/self-control
Othello• Othello & Iago
•Racism•Love and Betrayal•Isolation•Truth versus Lies/Rumors•Anger and Bad Choices•Parental Control•Setting: Venice then Cyprus•Genre: Tragedy•Time: 1601 -1604
Play’s source• Widely held belief that the
inspiration for Othello came from the 1566 Venetian novel Hecatommithi, authored by Giraldi
• Shakespeare reworks the plot to reveal a stunning psychological depth, the fragility of love and power as well as, the effect that the destructive demons of self-deception, doubt and suspicion can have on a marriage.
Queen Elizabeth
• Bastard daughter of King Henry VIII
• And Ann Boleyn (2nd of 6 wives)
• Henry had Ann beheaded for “treason”
• Younger sister of “Bloody Mary.”
• “Virgin Queen”?• A tease and a player
Her “loving” parents
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The Renaissance
• 1500-1650• “Rebirth” of arts, culture,
science • Discovery of “New
World”• Copernicus: Sun-centered
Universe (1543)• King Henry VIII =
renaissance man (ideal)• Reformation of Catholic
Church
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