It’s Greek to me.

Elbow room

Knock knock! Who’s there?

In a pickle

Love is blind

In a better world than this

Break the ice

Refused to budge an inch

Dead as a doornail

Fancy free

For goodness sake

Good riddance

Melted into thin air

Have not slept one wink

The naked truth

Star crossed lovers

Seen better days

Tell the truth and shame the devil

Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England

Married Anne Hathaway and had three children

Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men.

Tragedies

Comedies

Histories

What years did Shakespeare live?

1564-1616

In what British town did Shakespeare live?

Stratford upon Avon

Shakespeare wrote both _______ and ________.

Shakespeare wrote plays and poetry

What is a sonnet?

A sonnet is a 14 line poem.

What is the rhyme scheme of sonnet?

abab cdcd efef gg

Which of Shakespeare’s sonnets is considered to be the most famous?

Sonnet 18 “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”

All of the actors were men

Plays were performed during the day

Few props were used, outside of costumes.

Socio-economic status of the audience was varied.

The poorer people stood in the center; they were called groundlings.

The audience was vocally involved.

Outbreaks of the Bubonic Plague were so serious that the Globe Theatre was forced to close several times. The outbreaks and closures occurred in 1593 , 1603 and 1608. In 1563, in London alone, over 20,000 people died of the deadly Bubonic Plague.

William Shakespeare and his company built TWO Globe Theatres. On June 29, 1613, there was a fire at the original Globe and the theatre burnt to the ground within two hours. A new Globe was quickly re-built in 1614.

The motto of the Globe theatre was "Totus mundus agithistrionem" ( the whole world is a playhouse ). The phrase was slightly re-worded in the William Shakespeare play As You Like It to "All the world’s a stage," which was performed at the Globe Theatre.

Boys played the female roles, as said earlier…the lead content in the white make-up they wore led to many early deaths of the boy actors.

What was Shakespeare’s theater called?

The Globe

What else was it called?

The Wooden O

Where was the theater?

London

What were the benefits of the theater being round?

CHARACTERS Listed in order of importance

PROLOGUE Introduction to story

ACT I Scene [Stage directions] Dialogue is the conversation between characters Monologue is when only one character is speaking. An aside is when a character speaks and the other

characters aren’t supposed to hear. Soliloquy: a character speaks his/her thoughts aloud