Fundamentals of Theatre Arts

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Fundamentals of Theatre Arts

• What is Shakespeare?

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What is Shakespeare?

• Born 1564
• Died 1616
• Wrote 38 plays.
• History Plays
• Comedies
• Tragedies
• Sonnets

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What is Shakespeare?

• 1595 he was a member of Lord Chamberlains
  company, or The Kings Men.
• 1599 he was a householder in The Globe Theatre.

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What is Shakespeare?

• What makes him great?
• Language Poetry
• Themes
• Plot
• Characters

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What is Shakespeare?

• Language
• Iambic Pentameter a ryhme scheme with ten
  syllables in a line, or five pairs, with an
  unstressed and stressed syllable in each pair or
  foot.

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What is Shakespeare?

• Two households both alike in dignitie,
• In faire Verona where we lay our Scene.
• From auncient grudge, breake to new mutinie,
• Where civill bloud makes civill hands uncleane
• From forth the fatall loynes of these two foes,
• A pair of starr-crost lovers, take their life
• Whose misadventurd pttious overthrowes,
• Doth with their death burie their Partents strife.

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What is Shakespeare?

• Two house/holds both/ alike/ in dig/nitie,
• In faire/ Veron/a where/ we lay /our Scene.
• From aun/cient grudge,/ breake to /new mu/tinie,
• Where ci/vill bloud/ makes ci/vill hands/
  uncleane
• From forth/ the fa/tall loynes /of these /two
  foes,
• A pair /of starr-/crost lo/vers, take/ their
  life
• Whose mis/adventurd/ pitti/ous o/verthrowes,
• Doth with/ their death/ burie /their Pa/rents
  strife.

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What is Shakespeare?

• Two house/holds both/ alike/ in dig/nitie,
• In faire/ Veron/a where/ we lay /our Scene.
• From aun/cient grudge,/ breake to /new mu/tinie,
• Where ci/vill bloud/ makes ci/vill hands/
  uncleane
• From forth/ the fa/tall loynes /of these /two
  foes,
• A pair /of starr-/crost lo/vers, take/ their
  life
• Whose mis/adventurd/ pitti/ous o/verthrowes,
• Doth with/ their death/ burie /their Pa/rents
  strife.

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What is Shakespeare?

• Two house/holds both/ alike/ in dig/nitie,
• In faire/ Veron/a where/ we lay /our Scene.
• From aun/cient grudge,/ breake to /new mu/tinie,
• Where ci/vill bloud/ makes ci/vill hands/
  uncleane
• From forth/ the fa/tall loynes /of these /two
  foes,
• A pair /of starr-/crost lo/vers, take/ their
  life
• Whose mis/adventurd/ pitti/ous o/verthrowes,
• Doth with/ their death/ burie /their Pa/rents
  strife.

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What is Shakespeare?

• Stress the verbs the most.
• Stress the nouns almost as much!