1. High social status -  makes their fall from grace all the more tragic.

2. Internal conflict revolves around tragic flaw (character flaw which brings about demise)

3. External conflict results from outside forces - fate.

4. They always, always die at the end.

1. Poetry that does not rhyme.

2. Written in iambic pentameter (10 syllables per line, 5 accented & unaccented)

3. Iamb - unaccented then accented.

4. Made poets/playwrights highly regarded.

5. Believed to be closest to pattern of natural speech.

Poem of 14 lines, 3 quatrains (3 groups of 4 lines). Ends with a couplet, which also ended play scenes.

-Multiple characters onstage

-One character speaks to audience while, supposedly, the other characters can't hear

-Sets up dramtic irony

-Character is alone onstage

-"Solo"

-Thoughts are revealed directly to audience

1. Exit

2. Exeunt

1. A player leaves the stage

2. All players leave stage at end of scene

1. Antithesis

2. Oxymoron

3. Paradox

1. Opposite images in a line of poetry. (My only love sprung from my only hate)

2. Contradicting phrase

3. SENTENCE that contradicts

1. Bombast

2. Imagery

3. Foil

1. Boastful/ranting language.

2. Creating a picture w/ sensory words.

3. Charcter who reflects prtagonist's qualites by being the opposite.

-Begins in Ancient Greece & Rome

-Dissappears in the Middle Ages/Dark Ages because it was thought to be immoral 

-Comes back in the Renaissance in form of religious plays

-Three types:

1. Mystery - Biblical history

2. Miracle - Lives of saints

3. Morality - Good vs. Evil

-Progressed form inside the church to the church steps to travelling carts on holy days. (also performed in courtyards and guild halls)

-Performed plays

-Group of men w/ same occupation (start of labor unions)

-Noted progression of theatre from sacred to secular.

-Built in 1576 by James Burbage

-Other Theatres of the time: Rose, Swan, Black-Friar's, Fortune

-Built in 1599

-Burns down 29 June 1613 during performance of Henry VIII

-Rebuilt, then torn down in 1642 by Puritanical gov't because of immorality

-Banned from acting because of supposed immorality.

-Males would accompany females to the theatre.

-All roles, even female roles, were therefore played by men

Performances

1. Flag Flying

2. Price of entering/higher class boxes/cushions/stage stool

3. 3 blasts of trumpet

1. Meant a play was going to be performed that day

2. 1 pence - enter/extra 6 pence or 12 pence - seat in gallery/1 pence - cushion/6 pence - stage stool

3. Meant play was about to start

-Richard Burbage (son of James) - Tragedy

-Will Kempe - comedy

-The Admiral's Men

-The Lord Chamberlain's Men (Shakespeare, 1594)

which becomes

-The King's Men

-Shareholder

-Actor

-Poet (playwight)

-Master of the Revels

-The queen's censor

-Said which plays were to be performed

1. Plague

2. Immorality/Treason

3. Economic reasons

-"God out of a machine"

-System of pulleys in the ceiling

-Only possible location of a curtain

-Used for balcony scenes/war or battle scenes

-Holy Trinity Grammar school, probably

-Would have learned Latin, Greek, Religon, History

-Published in 1623

-Tribute by contemporary Ben Jonson

-Total of 36 plays

-Posthumous publication was permitted by wife, Anne Hathaway

-Pericles - not included

-37 or 38 plays

-Possible co-authorship w/John Fletcher - The Two Noble Kinsmen

-Irony

-Protagonist marriage

-Come-uppance (get what they deserve) for antagonist

1. Tragedies - Hero(es) must die. A tragic flaw is present.

2. Histories - Of England - With exception of Julius Caeser

-154 of them

-Many written to the Earl of Southampton, others to supposed mistress "Dark Lady"

-The Earl of Southampton

-Lord Chamberlain (during Queen Elizabeth's rule)

-James I

-Was an anomoly - woman ruling in a man's world.

-Also did not take a husband

-Ben Jonson

-Christopher Marlowe

-Sir Francis Bacon

-Sir Walter Raleigh

-Edward de Vere (Earl of Oxford)

-Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, King Lear

-A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, All's Well That Ends Well, Taming of the Shrew, Merchant of 

Venice, Love's Labour's Lost

-The Henry plays, Richard III, Julius Caeser

Thee, Thou, Thy, Thine - in informal/familiar situations.

You, Your - Formal/Respectful situations

1. Line Unit

2. Sense Unit

1. One line of 10 syllables (as in iambic pentameter)

2. Ended with punctuation, not neccessarily following the lines

*Shakespeare should be read in sense units, not line units*