Hort 4000 Spring 05

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Hort 4000 Spring 05
By Gus Tassara
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

• Elizabethan playwright, poet, professional actor
  and businessman
• Considered greatest writer in English, if not in
  any language
• Writes historical plays, romances, and comedies
• Writes on the human condition

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

• Great knowledge of horticulture, agriculture,
  law, seamanship, hunting, history, classics etc.
• Greatest vocabulary of any writer
• Created many words
• Many of his expressions have been quoted for more
  then 4 centuries

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Created Words by Shakespeare

• Assassination
• Barefaced
• Lonely
• Countless
• Excitement
• Exposure
• Unreal
• Gloomy
• Birthplace
• Premeditate

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Quotations

• Its Greek to me
• Suffered from green-eyed jealousy
• Cold-blooded
• Fair play
• Too much of a good thing
• Have seen better days
• Dead as door-nail
• Blinking idiot
• To be, or not to bethat is the question

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Elizabeth I

• 1558 Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne
  Boleyn, is crowned queen.
• Elizabeth I ruled England for 45 years
• Elizabeth I dies and James VI of Scotland becomes
  James I of England

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King James I

• James VI was King of Scotland for 35-years
  before he became King James I of England
• Took the Chamberlain's Men under his wing and
  renamed them the King's Men

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Shakespeare's Early Years

• Born in 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon,
  England
• Born to a prosperous middle-class family

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Shakespeare at School

• At age of four he started at local petty
  school
• He learned Latin and later Roman and Greek
  literature
• He left school when he was about 15 and never
  attended university

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Family life

• In 1582, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway and
  they had three children
• In 1580's Shakespeare left his family and moved
  to London

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Stratford-upon -Avon Today
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Elizabethan Times in London

• Thousands of country people moved to the great
  city (largest city in northern Europe in the late
  16th century)
• Impressive churches and riverside mansions of
  wealthy merchants and nobles
• Dark streets littered with all kind of garbage
• Noisy, dirty and smelly
• London Bridge had a display of the heads of
  traitors on poles to warn the public against
  committing crimes

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London Shows

• Bear and bull fighting
• Cockfighting
• Gathered to watch executions
• Other past times were gambling, hunting or
  playing sports
• Playgoing become more popular at the end of the
  16th century

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Clothes and Costumes
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Pomanders and the Plague
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The Black Death

• Originated in Central Asia
• During 1500's London was afflicted dozen times
• Caused by a bacteria which lives in rats
• Transmitted to humans by fleas

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The Globe

• In 1597 the Theater was forced to close.
• In 1598 was moved to across the river to the
  Bankside, they decided to call it the Globe
• As many as 3,000 people would gather to watch a
  play

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The Globe Today
www.info_at_shakespeareglobe.com
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Return to Stratford

• Shakespeare died on April 23 1616
• Buried at Holy Trinity Church
• Left his fortune to his daughter and only his
  second bed to his wife
• Curst be he that moves my bones its inscribed
  on his grave

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Some of the Plays of Shakespeare

• Histories Henry VI, Richard the III,
  Richard II, King John, Henry IV and Henry V
• Tragedies Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet,
  Othello, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra
• Comedies The comedy of Errors, A
  Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice

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Horticulture References

• Plant References
• Flower and Flowering
• Gardeners
• Medicinals
• Pruning
• Grafting
• Weeds and Insects

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Plant References
So we grew together, Like to a double cherry,
seeming parted, But yet a union in partition Two
lovely berries molded on one stem Midsummer
Night's Dream, III(2)139
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Flower and Flowering
When I have pluck'd the rose, I cannot give it
vital growth again. It must needs wither I'll
smell it on the tree Othello, V(2),86
Though other things grow fair against the
sun, Yet fruits that blossom first will first be
ripe Othello, II(3) 382
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Gardeners
Come, my spade. There is no ancient gentleman
but gardeners, ditcher's, and grave-makers they
hold up Adam's profession Hamlet, V(1)34
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Pruning
But, poor old man, thou prunest a rotten
tree, That cannot so much as a blossom yield In
lieu of all thy pains and husbandry As You Like
It, II(3)63
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Grafting
Her royal stock graft with ignoble
plants Richard III, III(7) 127
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Medicinals
Not Poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy
syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to
that sweet sleep Which thou oldest
yesterday Othello, III ,(3)330
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Weeds
Now tis the spring, and weeds are
shallow-rooted Suffer them now, and they'll
overgrow the garden And choke the herbs for want
of husbandry 2nd Henry VI, III(1)31
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Pippins, grown in Kent, were the most common
variety of apple
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Julius Caesar (Act III,scene2)
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The
evil that men do lives after them the good is
oft interred with their bones
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Hamlet, 2.2 123-6
Doubt thou the stars are fire Doubt that
the sun doth move Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
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Romeo and Juliet
Good Night, Good Night! Parting is such sweet
sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be
morow (Act II, SceneII)
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References

• Macbeth. The Shakespeare Library Wendy
  Greenhill and Paul Wignall Hinemann Library,
  2000
• Romeo and Juliet. The Shakespeare Library Wendy
  Greenhill Hinemann Library, 2000
• Eyewitness Shakespeare Peter
  Chrisp DK Publishing, Inc, 2004
• Kinks Queens of England David
  Williamson National Portrait Gallery,
  1998

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Reference

• www.absoluteshakespeare.com
• www.folger.edu
• www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk
• www.shakespeare.com
• www.bartleby.com/70/
• www.shakespeare.about.com