# Shake Speare ## Taking Point Form Notes - Record title or **```SOURCE```** at the top of your page. - Use your **```OWN WORDS```** Do not simply copy from the sources. - Do **```NOT```** write in full sentences. - Use **```HEADINGS```** and subhearings to separate and label points. - Include **```DEFINITIONS```** of all unfamiliar terms. - Use **```ABBREVIATIONS```** whenever possible, but make sure you now what they mean. - Include **```DIAGRAMS```** or **```CHARTS```** of material when appropriate, but be sure to label them clearly. - Include **```EXAMPLES```** that make sense to you whenever possible. - Always **```WRITE NEATLY```** enough that someone else could read your notes. - You must be able to **```EXPLAIN```** the notes to someone else. # Intro To Shakespeare ## William Shakespeare - Was born 1564 - 1616 - Married Ann hathway and had 3 kids - Wrote 57 plays, 154 sonnets and two longer poems ## Politics and Religions - Great Chain of being - Greatly religious time - The ladder of intellect - The god was at the top - Then angels - Heaven - Human - Beast - Plant - Flame - Stone - Hierachal Order - God - was on top of all of society - They believed God picked the kings - King - Everyone needed to obeyed the king, as if they didn't, they would be going aganist god - Nobles - picked by the kings - Merchants - cannot wear the clothing of nobles - Peasants - cannot wear the clothing of merchants and above ## Henry The 8th VIII - Had 8 diffferent wives - Was not alive during shakespeares time - Had a patriot - Woman and children were under the ownership of the hubsband - He started his own religion - this is why only catholic people are not supposed to be divorced - Become the head of the church of his religion - He executed woman for not giving him a son - Cod-piece: push up bra for male genatalia ## Elizabeth I - "Female Prince" - Patron of the arts - gave alot of money to artist - reason why we can see alot of shakespeares plays, as she would pay him - Would pay actors and writers to perform for her - Woman couldn't go into theatres, due to woman are "weak", which meant they were easily manipulated - Didn't get married because she has 10000 iq ## James I - Succeeded Elizatbeth - Shakespeare had to tailor to a female monarch and a male monarch - Themes needed to please the ruler - Brutal man - Wrote a book how to identify witches and torture them - Femenist ## Fashion - Clothes never washed - Collars - to prevent lice to jump down - High heels for the rich - were meant for men - White paint for face - Foreheads were shaved - Dropping poison in their eyes to make their iris bigger - Underwear hasn't been invented yet ## Living Conditions - No toilets - Bathing almost never happened - Water was often poisonous.... people avoided it. - Baths were out of the question. People drank beer/ale instead of water. ## Bubonic Plague - Also called the black deaths - Fleas, rats, ships, infecetion - Killed millions of people - 85 - 90% population of a village would be dead in 2 - 3 weeks - some of them believed this was a punishment from god - Ring around the Rosie - A lullaby talking about the plague ## So to stay entertained - They made dogs and bears fight to stay enteratined - Bull baiting and Bear baiting - Struggled with ampathy - Executions - Men will talk women and children to watch the execution, and then bring them back home and beat them to remember the lesson ## The Globe Theatre - Shakespeares theatre - Poor people can sit on the gorund - Rich people can sit in seats - Never see 2 things on stage - Never see any authority killed - Never see any anti religious things -