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Shakespeare PowerPoint Notes:
*Keep these notes until after the final unit test.
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Shakespeare was born in _______ in Stratford-on-Avon,
_____________________________________ from London.
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We know this from the earliest record: his ________ which happened on Wednesday
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He was the ______________ of eight children of John and Mary Shakespeare.
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Seven siblings, but he was the oldest ___________________________.
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He attended grammar school, where he studied ___________.
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On November 28, 1582, when he was 18, he married __________________ (who was 26)!
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Only ___________ later, they had his first daughter Susanna.
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In 1585, twins Hamnet and Judith were born.
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From __________________________, little is known about him.
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These are known as _________________________________.
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By 1592, he had become well-known in London theatrical circles foremost as an_____________, but also as a
_____________________.
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He joined Lord Chamberlain’s Men, a Repertory Company in __________.
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From time to time plagues closed the theater, so he used that time to write _________ and ___________.
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In 1599, they built the __________________________.
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In 1603, Queen Elizabeth died. She had been the monarch of his childhood!
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The company became, __________________________ to honor the new monarch ____________________.
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Constructed in 1599, it was three-stories high and had no __________.
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It could hold about __________ people.
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In 1613, during a performance of ___________________, a misfired canon ball set the Globe’s thatched roof on fire and the
whole theater burned down!
1 Penny: roughly 10% of a worker’s daily wage (2 penny and 3 penny seats)
The ______ was the cheapest.
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It was here the _____________ sat/stood.
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It had no roof and no _______________________, so plays typically occurred in the early afternoon, lasting from 2pm until
roughly 4 or 5 pm.
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The stage projected toward the audience and the audience could see all sides! Dead _______ had to be carried off!
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All roles had to be played by ______________________.
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The first play we know of that was performed at Shakespeare’s famous playhouse was _________________ in 1599.
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Shakespeare’s nickname was ____________________ and he is most well-known for writing plays and sonnets.
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It is estimated that roughly _________ of his _________ plays would have been written and performed by 1597.
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He wrote _______ plays and ________ sonnets.
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Williams Shakespeare died on the 23rd of April 1616, at his home in _______________________.
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It is often said that he died on his birthday, but there is no official record of his birth and the exact date of his birth is not
known.
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There is record of his baptism on the 26th of April and it was customary for a baptism to take place a few days after birth.
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Wrote 154 Sonnets:
14 lines
Iambic pentameter
Set rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg
Julius Caesar PowerPoint Notes:
Tragedy and the tragic hero:
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Possesses importance or _________
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Exhibits extraordinary talents
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Displays a tragic________--an error in _________ or defect in character—that leads to downfall.
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Faces downfall with ____________ and _____________.
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Blank verse is unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
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Iambic pentameter is a fixed pattern of rhythm in which most lines contain _______ unstressed _____________ each followed
by a ___________ syllable.
Underline the following devices within the examples:
1. Repetition
And do you now put on your best attire?
And do you now cull our a holiday?
2. Parallelism
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
3. Rhetorical Questions:
Why friends, you go to do you know not what. Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not.
4. In_______________, the audience knows something that one or more character does not know.
Back to Caesar:
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Caesar had many advantages as a child. His family was of the old __________ class of Rome and they claimed to be
descendants of both ____________ and Romulus, the heroes and founders of Rome. Gaius Julius Caesar was born in
100 BC.
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Gaius was given a first-class ____________ in both Greek and Latin and his family had _________ in Roman society.
Caesar told people that he spoke better __________ than ________ and he probably did. This would come in handy as
he moved throughout the __________________.
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As a _________ man, Julius was too often unsuccessful and unhappy; he married a woman he did not love for her
__________ and ________________. He was given positions of power, which he did not __________or _________ ,
and he lost a lot of money in failed business ventures. It would have been hard to predict glory for him based on his early
life.
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On his way to Greece in 75 BC, Caesar was kidnapped by the famous and feared________________. He told the pirates
that they should either_________ or ask for ________________, because when he was free he would return and kill
them all. The pirates laughed.
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After the ransom was paid and he was freed, he raised a fleet, returned to the pirates’ lair, and captured them all. He had
them __________just as he had promised to do when his was their prisoner.
While serving as governor in Spain at age 32, Caesar visited at statue of _____________________________.
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Upon viewing this statue, Caesar fell to his knees, _____________, When asked what was wrong, Caesar sighed and
said that by the time Alexander was his age, he had ______________ the whole world. All Caesar had done was marry a
rich woman, squandered her and the family’s immense wealth, and been appointed in a position because Roman
corruption and family connections.
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Gaius Julius Caesar returned to Rome. He married again, borrowed money from new wealthy supporters, and began to
pursue a career in ____________. One way he did that was by giving speeches to __________Romans and sponsoring
____________ games and spectacles for the masses.
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Things started to go Caesar’s way and he became a political power.
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Caesar was given command of a Roman legion in South Gaul (France) when he was 41.
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From ____________ BC, Julius Caesar led his army all over France, Belgium, and even into England. He conquered the
entire land of Gaul and all its _________________.
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Julius Caesar was a ____________ genius and a brilliant _______. He knew how to use his Roman Army to defeat
every opponent.
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He was unmerciful in his punishment of the enemies of Rome. It is estimated that he killed over _______________
people in Gaul during his conquests there.
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That makes him a mass murderer as well as a military genius.
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No better than ____________________.
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Caesar was also an author and spread his fame using the pen. He even wrote down his exploits in a book you can still
read today. As reports of all his victories and his book reached Rome, all of Rome ______________________!
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Caesar was not the favorite of all the rich and powerful in Rome. They preferred Pompey, Caesar’ former friend and
now_________.
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In _________ the Roman Senate ordered Caesar to disband his army and enter Rome as a private citizen or they would
declare him as __________________________________. Caesar responded by leading 5000 of his troops across the
Rubicon and into Rome, starting___________________________.
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Pompey fled to Egypt and Caesar _________ him. The Egyptians presented Caesar with Pompey’s _______________
when he arrived. The fight was over!
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During his stay in Egypt Julius Caesar met and fell in love with___________, the beautiful co-ruler of the country. They
had a child together and Caesar took them both back to Rome.
Even though Caesar refused the _________, a band of rich men led by _________ and ___________ stabbed Caesar to
death during a senate meeting on the Ides of March.
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He ______________ the territory and power of Rome.
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He made necessary reforms in the corrupt Roman government.
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He created the solar __________ that we still use today in place of the lunar.
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He had a magnetic personality and many talents: _________,___________,__________________,________________,
______________________, and ________________.
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He was intelligent, brave, and loved adventure.
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He not only killed two million Gauls, but he ruthlessly eliminated his political ____________ through murder.
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He led his army in civil war against the Roman state and ___________ it.
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He kept many _____________ and was not faithful to his wife.
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He had himself _____________ dictator for life against all Roman ______________.
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They believe that Julius Caesar was an arrogant opportunist who lived by the sword and _______________ died by the
sword.