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Key Concepts: “Shakespeare’s World”
The curtain, the globe, the date of the first London theatre
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Capacity of playhouse
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Dangers of the theatre
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Gentlemen, Citizen, Yeomen artificers, labourers
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Liberties
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Population of London ( 1520: 60 000/ 1550: 120 000/1600: 200 000)
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Places within the theatre: The Yard; Groundings; Lord’s Room
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Theatrical detractors (stage v pulpit)
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Deuteronomy 22:5
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Master of the revels, Sir Edmund Tilney
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Allowed copy
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Quarto: First Folio (1625); Foul papers; fair copy; “The book of the play”/ promptbook
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Lecture Outline
The Theatre in Renaissance England
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The theatre and theatricality of early modern London life
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Theatrical detractors
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The Oxford Shakespeare - Norton
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Shakespeare and the printed book
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Situating ourselves historically
The English Renaissance: early 16th century - mid/late 17th century
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Shakespeare's life : Baptised April 1564 - April 1616
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Writing life 1590 - 1613
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Important Dates:
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Reinvigorating Northern Europe
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Revisiting classical texts (Greek and Latin) that influenced Britain
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Reflects our same way of thinking
Race, ethnicity, nationhood
Part of our inheritance
History of literature, science, thought
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Historical period that marks many of our ideas
Also known as Early Modern period
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The fruition of everything classical OR the beginning of where we were going to go
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Renaissance - rebirth that came out of Italian and Mediterranean art
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Next time: Sonnets
Practice reading actively
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Practice using a double-entry notebook
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Begin your Shakespeare Dictionary
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Write down the images you recall
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Read again and write down particular words and images that are governing the story of the
sonnet, what images change?
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Read again, tracing where the sonnet the tone seems to shift
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Read a sonnet once through
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** BRING YOUR TEXT ON MONDAY
London and its Liberties
Lecture 2 - 14/ 09
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
12:11 PM
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