Shakespeare notes Flashcards
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(shakespeare notes) Avon:
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suburb of birth
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: England was a ….: a form of gov with a ….
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monarchy; single leader
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: during shakespeare’s time, power shifted from one leader to the next with
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relative speed
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: henry VIII (8th) ruled from …, was succeeded by his … son, …, who died … years later
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1509-1547; sickly; edward; six
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: and what followed Edward’s death was a …. for the throne
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bloody scramble
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: Henry VIII had 3 children:
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Mary, Elizabeth, Edward
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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Edward named …. queen, … his sisters Mary and Elizabeth
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Lady Jane Gray; denouncing
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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Mary eventually won many … and … Lady Jane, who had been the de facto monarch for only … days
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supporters; deposed; nine
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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Mary (aka …) ruled for … years until her death in …
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Bloody Mary; five; 1558
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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Everyone had to convert to … due to Henry VIIII
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protestantism
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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Mary was …, everyone had to convert back to …. murdered anyone who was still …
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Catholic; Catholicism; protestant
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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Queen Elizabeth I ruled from …. (the first … monarch since Henry VIII)
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1558-1603; stable
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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Queen Elizabeth I refused to …, knowing that to do so would mean the … of her power
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marry; relinquishing
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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Queen Elizabeth I credited with defeating the … in the famous …
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Spanish Armada; Battle of Gravelines
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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: Queen Elizabeth I enjoyed the …. and donated …. to them
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theater; costumes
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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: King James VI (and I)- King of … (1567-1625) and King of … (1603-1625)
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Scots; England
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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: King James VI (and I)- A …. (authored Daemonologie)
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scholar
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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: King James VI (and I)- historians hold conflicting opinions of his
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tenure
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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: King James VI (and I)- was one of the intended targets for the infamous …
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Guy Fawkes “Gunpowder Plot”
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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: King James VI (and I)- Became Shakespeare’s …., and the Bard and his associates happily renamed their company ….
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patron; The King’s Men
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(shakespeare notes) Rulers: King James VI (and I)- financial supporter of
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the arts
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- duration:
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1347-1750
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- over the course of these centuries, the plague ebbed and flowed across …, the …, and portions of …
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Europe; Middle East; Asia
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- Symptoms: large, tumor-like … and the appearance of … on the legs, arms, hands that would … and turn it …
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growths; spots; kill the flesh; black
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- the only "cure" was to lock the infected
away in their own home
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- plague doctors wore ... that had either .../.... to avoid "....": didn't know about ....
masks; flowers/incense; death smells; germs
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- doctors used .... to handle sick people
sticks
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- some doctors/fakes negotiated to receive .../.../...
room; board; pay
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- the plague had numerous social effects: ..., ..., ..., ..., ... shortages, and an intensifying of the age's perennial ...
looting; violence; despair; unemployment; food; poverty
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- London Plague Regulations of 1538 (reissued in later years with modifications): infected were to be locked in their homes for ....; the streets were to be kept ....; .... were to be expelled; ... and .... were to be restricted/banned entirely
one month; clean; vagrants; funerals; plays
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- london plague regulations of 1538: vagrants expelled to avoid ..., funerals/plays restricted: too many people in close ... to each other → ....
spreading diseases; proximity; spreads disease
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- the plague had a direct impact on Shakespeare's profession: when the death toll reached a certain number, city officials ...., popular belief held that the plague was a .... from an ...
closed the theaters; punishment; angry God
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- medical knowledge was severely .... during this time
deficient
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- no equivalents to ..., no ..., no understanding of "..." or need for ...
hospitals; medicine; germs; antiseptics
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(shakespeare notes) Historical Context: The Bubonic Plague- physicians were inherently ... in the face of the plague, and this period in history would have been a highly ... and .... experience for anyone in the medical field
helpless; stressful; terrorizing
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(shakespeare notes) in 1564 (year of Shakespeare's birth), some .... people died in .... out of a total population of ...
254; Stratford-upon-Avon; 800
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(shakespeare notes) in 1563, over .... londoners died
20,000
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(shakespeare notes) 1593: ... died
| 1603: ... died
15,000; 36,000
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: life expectancy was incredibly low (under ...) and infant mortality was ....
30; extraordinarily high
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: in poorer London parishes, only about half of the children survived to the age of ... (and aristocratic children fared only a little ...)
15; better
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: parents likely to lose ... or ... children, would have developed a certain level of ....
However, numerous accounts of ...
three; four; detachment; intense grief
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: Shakespeare and his contemporaries had an intimate knowledge of both ... and .., because both events took place in the ...
death; birth; home
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: even when the plague was dormant, the food supply in England was ....: one bad harvest could cause serious ..., even ...
erratic; hardships; starvation
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: Danse Macabre: morbid ..., grotesque ....
celebration; life after death
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: the poor bore the brunt of the burden: ..., low ..., ... increases
inflation; wages; rage
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: diets were severely deficient in vital ... and ....
vitamins; minerals
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: lower class subsisted on ... or ... food types, usually low in ...
one; two; protein
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: upper class disdained ... and ..., gorging instead on ...
green vegetables; milk; meat
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: illnesses due to .... were rampant
vitamin deficiencies
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: beer provided some, but no much, relief from ..., and Elizabethans (including children) drank almost ...
pain; incessantly
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: home brewing aside, enough beer was produced and sold in England for every man, woman, and child to consume
40 gallons a year
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: despite these conditions, the English population during Shakespeare's time was steadily
growing
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: population growth was most noticeable in ..., where the ... were located
London; playhouses;
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: wages were around ... in London
50%
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: shakespeare's success was due in large part to this .../.... boom
demographic/economic
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-life and death: between 1567 and 1642, the London playhouses entertained close to
50 million guests
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-religious turmoil: Henry VII converted to ...., forcing the populate to convert: this was because he couldn't ... his wife under ....
protestantism; divorce; catholicism
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-religious turmoil: King Edward VI: raised
protestant
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-religious turmoil: Queen Mary I: ..., as was her mother, ...
Catholic; Catherine
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-religious turmoil: Queen Elizabeth I: Raised
Protestant
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-religious turmoil: Mary was notoriously brutal in her reimplementation of the ....
Heresy Acts
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(shakespeare notes) Historical context-religious turmoil: Elizabeth, though she refused to return the .. and ... stripped from the monasteries, attempted to strike .... She was brutal in ...
wealth; properties; common ground; punishment
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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare's Life-Family: William's father, John, moved to Avon in the mid.... century, where he became a successful ..., ..., ..., and .. in ... and other ...
sixteenth; glover; landowner; moneylender; dealer; wool; agricultural goods
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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare's Life-Family: around 1557, John married ..., the daughter of a ... and well-...
Mary Arden; prosperous; connected farmer
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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare's Life-Family: John was appointed ...
ale taster
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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare's Life-Family: 1576 John started losing his esteem and
moderate wealth
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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare's Life-Family: 1586: john replaced on ... possibly because he was a ..
.council; Catholic
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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare's Life-Family: 1596: John's application for renewal of "..." was renewed
coat of arms
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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare's Life-Family: 1601: the year before John's death, he was included in the list of those qualified to speak on behalf of
Stratford's rights
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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare's Life-Family: Shakespeare's siblings: Joan (older sister assumed to have ...), ..., ..., ..., and Joan (younger sister- names were often ...)
died; Gilbert; Richard; Edmund; recycled
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(shakespeare notes) Shakespeare full name: Gulielmus filius ohannes Shakespeare born
April 23, 1564
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(shakespeare notes) as a child, William would have witnessed a number of "..." common in the political sphere of which his father was a part
theatrical traditions
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(shakespeare notes) voracious
reader
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(shakespeare notes) stratford was well-known for its ... and ... school
excellent; free
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(shakespeare notes) Main purpose of such schools in Middle Ages was to train future
clerics
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(shakespeare notes) literacy at the time was not viewed as ...., but ... changed this notion, placing a great emphasis on the necessity of literacy and its intrinsic connection to ....
necessary; Protestantism; salvation
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(shakespeare notes) at the core of Stratford's curriculum was the study of ..., which gave young William access to numerous classical ...
Latin; Latin texts
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(shakespeare notes) shakespeare, more than literate, was well schooled in ... and ...
philosophy; classics
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(shakespeare notes) Anne Hathaway: November 1582: William (...) married Anne Hathaway (...) and their daughter, ...., was baptized ... months later
18; 26; Susanna; 6
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(shakespeare notes) Anne Hathaway: February 2, 1585: William's son and daughter, Hamnet and Judith, were baptized in stratford. Hamnet died at the age of ... when William was already living most of the year in ...
11; London
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(shakespeare notes) Anne Hathaway: 1597: william, evidently successful, purchased ...., the second ... in Stratford
New Place; largest house
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(shakespeare notes) Anne Hathaway: 1601: William's father ...., followed by his mother .... later
died; seven years
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(shakespeare notes) Anne Hathaway: April 23, 1616: william shakespeare ..., after presumably retiring to stratford ...
died; three years prior
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(shakespeare notes) Anne Hathaway: a ... now grows where New Place once stood
garden
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(shakespeare notes) Career: Between 1585 and 1592, William's existence seems to slip out of the
records
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(shakespeare notes) Career: the only documentation from 1592 is from John Aubrey- rival ... and ....- who stated that William was a ... in the country and an unusual ... who made a ... whenever he ....
playwright; gossip; school teacher; apprentice butcher; speech; killed a calf
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(shakespeare notes) Career: by 1592, william had already arrived on the highly competitive
London theater scene
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(shakespeare notes) Career: william was listed among the ... had ... in plays
actors; minor roles
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(shakespeare notes) Career: 1594: william became a member of the play company .... (....) and stayed with this company
Servants to the Lord Chamberlain (the King's Men)
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(shakespeare notes) Career: 1599: William formed a ... comapny and raised sufficient funds to lease a site and have the ....
joint-stock; globe theater built
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(shakespeare notes) Career: the globe was built with an .... to utilize ...
open roof; daylight
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(shakespeare notes) Career: globe's structural composition was symbolic- stage represented ..., trapdoor represented ..., balcony and above represented ... (a pulley was attached to the rafters to raise/lower .... or ...)
earth; hell; heaven; angelic figures; characters
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(shakespeare notes) Career: all theaters were decorated with ... that displayed .. which represented that specific ... (globe had the .... holding a ...)
flags; symbols; playhouse; titan Atlas; globe
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(shakespeare notes) Career: other flags would represent type of play showing: black→..., white→ ...
tragedy; comedy;
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(shakespeare notes) Career: no intermissions: actors spoke
much faster
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(shakespeare notes) Career: shakespeare's plays were often accompanied by
music
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(shakespeare notes) Career: there was a preparation (or "...") room behind the stage
green
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(shakespeare notes) Career: there were no prefabricated ...., but there were sometimes ...
scenes; tapestries
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(shakespeare notes) Career: there were a lot of ..., and all actors had to take ... and .... lessons
props; dancing; fencing
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(shakespeare notes) Career: .... are in every play, and these were largely employed for the people in the ...-- also known as the ...
puns; pit; groundlings
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(shakespeare notes) Career: puns meant for ..., .... jokes, wanted to include ...
lower class; lewd; entire audience
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(shakespeare notes) Career: if it rained, groundlings would get ... but aristocrats would not
wet
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(shakespeare notes) legacy: credited with writing .... plays, ... sonnets, and .... long narrative poems
38; 154; 2
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(shakespeare notes) legacy: his works have been translated into every
major living language
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(shakespeare notes) legacy: his writing forged many of the .... and .... used today
words; phrases
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(shakespeare notes) legacy: interest in his writing dwindled during the ... and .... centuries, but .... repopularized his works in the ... century, making them a staple in literature
17th; 18th; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; 19th;
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(shakespeare notes) legacy: many of the story arcs he made popular are re-envisioned in today's
films and plays
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(shakespeare notes) conspiracy: some critics believe that shakespeare did not .... the plays commonly attributed to him
author
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(shakespeare notes) conspiracy: the fact that he was fairly ... and "...." counted against him
ordinary; upper middle class
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(shakespeare notes) conspiracy: most critics attribute the plays to various ... from higher .... and prestigious ..., claimin that william could have no knowledge of the royal court or aristocracy based on his ....
writers; social classes; educations; station
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(shakespeare notes) conspiracy: however, because Shakespeare was credited as the author at the time, it would have required a conspiracy on a ....t o accomplish such a charade
massive scale
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(shakespeare notes) conspiracy: funerary monument in .... in ...
Holy Trinity Church; Avon
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(shakespeare notes) conspiracy: wrote his own epitaph: "
cursed be he that moves my bones"
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(shakespeare notes) conspiracy: theater considered ... (another reason why playhouses were closed during plague times)
evil
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Shakespeare was likely raised ...., and a ... is a prominent theme in many of his plays/sonnets
Catholic; struggle of faith
