Shakespeare Week 3



Shakespeare

This was a great week.    In class we Read Act I scene 3-5 in hamlet.  We also played a 2nd round of hitchhiker.  Thank you, Angelo for bringing cookies!  Thank you all for turning in your papers this week.  A lot of you are making good progress watching/listening/reading Shakespeare’s plays.  Keep up the good work! 

Our lecture this week was about the different kinds of plays.  Shakespeare wrote 4 different kinds: Histories, tragedies, comedies, and problem plays.

(7) Histories: The plays dramatize generations of Medieval trials.  They depict Joan of Arc, the Hundred Years of War with France, and the War of the Roses between York and Lancaster.  It is a historical narrative. (the plays: king john, Richard II, henry IV parts I and II, Henry V, henry VI parts I, II, and III, Richard III, Henry VIII)

(11) Tragedies: “Shakespeare’s tragedies are...easiest to identify because they contain a heroic figure, a man of noble descent, with a fatal flaw. His weakness precipitates his downfall and the demise of those around him. Other elements of tragedy are a serious theme and ending with the death of someone important. In his tragedies, Shakespeare often includes a reversal of fortune.” (the plays: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, king Lear, Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Titus Andronicus)

(13) Comedies: “Shakespeare’s comedies usually contain playful elements like satiric language, puns, and metaphors. Comedies also contain elements of love or lust, with obstacles that the lovers must overcome throughout the play. Mistaken identities and disguises are often used in both intentional and unintentional ways for comic effect. A staple of the Shakespearean comedy is ending the play with some type of reunion or marriage(s).” (the plays: The two gentlemen of Verona, the taming of the shrew, love’s labour’s lost, the comedy of errors, a midsummer night’s dream, the merchant of Venice, the merry wives of Windsor, much ado about nothing, as you like it, twelfth night, the tempest, the winter’s tale, Pericles)

(3) Problem: “The Problem play is a form of drama that emerged during the 19th century as part of the wider movement of realism in the arts.  It deals with contentious social issues through debates between the characters on stage, who typically represent conflicting point of view within a realistic social context.” (the plays: All’s Well that ends well, measure for measure, Troilus and Cressida)


Sampson gave us the vocabulary word this week.

Costermonger: a person who sells goods, especially fruit and vegetables, from a handcart in the street.


Assignment Reminder

Writing Assignment: Is it better to let others share our burdens? When you share them do you make better decisions about them? Why or why not?

Bonus Question: Where is Wittinbereng?

October 3rd Presentations:
Angelo (Daniel) Death, Burial, and Ghosts
and
Romeo (Haakon) Myths, Legends, and Mysteries

October 3rd Vocabulary Share: Adriano (Zeke)


Quotes used from https://www.storyboardthat.com/articles/e/types-of-shakespearean-plays

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