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Where Born

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Stanford-On-Avon, England

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Plays written

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37

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Sonnets written

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154

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Who acted for and principal playwright for

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Lord Chamberlains Men

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Playwright

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Person who writes plays

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Where most plays took place + when built

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1566 Global Theater

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3 Types of Plays Written

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Tragedies, Comedies, Histories

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Comedy

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Ends happily

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Tragedy

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Most people die

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Histories

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Based on real life events

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When Romeo and Juliet written

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1595

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What type Romeo and Juliet is

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Tragedy

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Theater description

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No artificial lighting, roofless, is a courtyard surrounded by 3 levels of galleries, wealthy got benches, groundlings stood in pit

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Groundlings

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Poor people who stood in pit to watch plays

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Plays Info

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For everybody, rich people in play spoke in iambic pentameter, poor people in play spoke in prose,

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How crowd interacts

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Throw tomatoes and yell and scream if play is bad

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Stage

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Platform extended into pit

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Dressing + storage rooms

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Above and behind stage

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Second level gallery

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Upper stage

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Trap door

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Where ghosts are at

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Heavens

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Up sides

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Transitions

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No scenery, change in dialogue

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Costumes

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Elaborate, many layers of garments

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Props

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Actors
Only men and boys, young boys act women parts - voice not change
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Blank Verse
Unrhymed verse
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Iambic Pentameter
10 syllable lines, 5 stressed and 5 unstressed syllables, ba BA, ba Ba, ...
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Prose
Ordinary writing
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Exposition
Introduces setting, characters, basic situation, beginning of plot
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Inciting Moment
Initial incident, sets plot running
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Conflict
Is either Man vs man, himself, society, nature
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Crisis
Protagonist's situation gets better or worse
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Climax
Turning point, everything starts to unravel
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Resolution
End of central conflict
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Denouncement
Final explanation/ outcome of plot
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Shakespearean tragedy
Character's,downfall due to fate, character/fatal flaw, or combination of both + lots of carnage
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Theme
Moral of story, central idea
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Simile
Comparison of 2 things using like or as
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Metaphor
Comparison of two things without using like or as
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Dramatic Foil
Character whose purpose is to show off other character
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Round character
Character with many personality traits
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Flat characters
Embody one trait
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Static characters
Don't change, show no growth, don't change opinion or character
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Dynamic character
Change usually for better, show growth
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Molologue
One person speaking on stage, more than one character can be present
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Soliloquy
Long speech to express thoughts of character alone on stage
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Aside
Words spoken in undertone, whispered to another character
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Pun
Humorous use of words with more than one meaning
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Direct Address
Words to tell the reader who is being addressed, separated by ,direct address,
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Dramatic irony
contradiction between what character thinks and what audience/reader knows to be true
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Verbal irony
Words used to suggest opposite of what is meant
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Situational irony
Event occurs that directly contradicts expectations of characters, reader, or audience
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Comedic relief
The use of comedy within literature that is not comedy but to provide relief from seriousness or sadness
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William Shakespeare Life Span
1563-1616

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