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Shakespeare:
 Shakespeare was born in _______ in Stratford-on-Avon,
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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.
Seven siblings, but he was the oldest ___________________________.
He attended grammar school, where he studied ___________.
On November 28, 1582, when he was 18, he married __________________ (who was
26)!
Only ___________ later, they had his first daughter Susanna.
In 1585, twins Hamnet and Judith were born.
From __________________________, little is known about him.
These are known as _________________________________.
By 1592, he had become well-known in London theatrical circles foremost as
an_____________, but also as a _____________________.
He joined Lord Chamberlain’s Men, a Repertory Company in __________.
From time to time plagues closed the theater, so he used that time to write _________
and ___________.
In 1599, they built the __________________________.
In 1603, Queen Elizabeth died. She had been the monarch of his childhood!
The company became, __________________________ to honor the new monarch
____________________.
Constructed in 1599, it was three-stories high and had no __________.
It could hold about __________ people.
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.
It was here the _____________ sat/stood.
It had no roof and no _______________________, so plays typically occurred in the
early afternoon, lasting from 2pm until roughly 4 or 5 pm.
The stage projected toward the audience and the audience could see all sides! Dead
_______ had to be carried off!
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.
 Shakespeare’s nickname was ____________________ and he is most well-known for
writing plays and sonnets.
 It is estimated that roughly _________ of his _________ plays would have been written
and performed by 1597.
He wrote _______ plays and ________ sonnets.
 Williams Shakespeare died on the 23rd of April 1616, at his home in
_______________________.
 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.
 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.
 Wrote 154 Sonnets:
14 lines
Iambic pentameter
Set rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg
Julius Caesar:
Tragedy and the tragic hero:
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Possesses importance or _________
Exhibits extraordinary talents
Displays a tragic________--an error in _________ or defect in character—that leads to
downfall.
Faces downfall with ____________ and _____________.
Blank verse is unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
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:
 Repetition
And do you now put on your best attire?
And do you now cull our a holiday?
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Parallelism
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
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Rhetorical Questions:
Why friends, you go to do you know not what. Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved
your loves? Alas, you know not.
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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.
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 __________________.
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.
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.
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
_____________________________.
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.
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.
Things started to go Caesar’s way and he became a political power.
Caesar was given command of a Roman legion in South Gaul (France) when he was
41.
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
_________________.
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.
That makes him a mass murderer as well as a military genius.
No better than ____________________.
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 ______________________!
Caesar was not the favorite of all the rich and powerful in Rome. They preferred
Pompey, Caesar’ former friend and now_________.
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___________________________.
Pompey fled to Egypt and Caesar _________ him. The Egyptians presented Caesar
with Pompey’s _______________ when he arrived. The fight was over!
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.
He ______________ the territory and power of Rome.
He made necessary reforms in the corrupt Roman government.
He created the solar __________ that we still use today in place of the lunar.
He had a magnetic personality and many talents:
_________,___________,__________________,________________,
______________________, and ________________.
He was intelligent, brave, and loved adventure.
He not only killed two million Gauls, but he ruthlessly eliminated his political
____________ through murder.
He led his army in civil war against the Roman state and ___________ it.
He kept many _____________ and was not faithful to his wife.
He had himself _____________ dictator for life against all Roman ______________.
They believe that Julius Caesar was an arrogant opportunist who lived by the sword
and _______________ died by the sword.