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Shake Speare

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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

Taming of the Shrew

Act 1, Scene 1

• Lucentio is ontop of Tranio
• Likely these 2 foolish characters will be punished by gods
• Tradition

• Lucentio

  • is an ignorant character (major historic figs, simliar to sly)
  • trying to make himself sound big
  • not very educated
  • line 11/18/20: of pledges “virtous” intentions
    • questionable
  • line 32-33: Aristotle, ovid allusions from
  • line 25: speaks latin well

• Tranio

  • Speaks calc

• Baptista

  • Has 2 daughters
  • is very rich, Gremio and Hortensio knows this
  • wants to marry off Katherina before Bianca

  • Katherina

    • Gets insulted
    • Depressed
    • dressed in red
      • angry, passion
    • head up
      • prideful
    • realizes and asks if her father is selling her to his friends
    • gets called alot of bad things

  • Bianca

    • dressed in white
      • symbolizes innocent
    • head down
      • shy
    • Hides & manipulates

• Gremio

  • calls katherina a whore and a prositute

• Hortensio

  • Refers Bianco as a ring, hole, monetary indications and ouvertly sexual wise