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More Willy Shakes Fo You Holmes
shakespare notes on a bunch of stuff i've never picked up before for a 100 pt test tommorow
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English
9th Grade
02/22/2010

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Who was an innovator of commercial theatre who was stabbed in the eye?
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Christopher Marlowe
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Before Shakespare what was the only reason people went into theaters?
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for religious productions
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What were two other theatre companies and led by whom?
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Admiral's med led by Phillip Henslowe and Lord Chaimberlain's men.
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Who later adopted Chaimberlain's theater company? What did they do?
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King James; they disassembled James Burbage's theater and made the Globe
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Where were Shakespeare's greatest works performed at?
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The globe
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What did Shakespare think that he would be remembered by? Was commercial theatre intended as literature?
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by his sonnets and poems and no.
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What two men decided to publish Shakespeare's plays after he died?
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Henry Condell and John Heminges
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Whats the difference between a folio and a quarto publication?
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A folio is larger than a quarto; folios are folded once and quartos are folded twice.
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What is an aside?
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A remark that is unheard by other characters on stage addressed only to the audience.
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Whats the difference between a solioquy and a monologue?
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A monologue is addressed to other characters on the stage instead of to the audience.
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What is a dramatic foil?
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A CHARACTER WHO HIGHLIGHTS OR BRINGS OUT THE PERSONALITY TRAITS OF ANOTHER CHARACTER IN A PLAY
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What is meant by a blank verse?
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an unrhymed verse written in ten syllable lines with every 2nd syllable stressed.
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who were groundlings?
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poor spectators who watched a play frp, the courtyard
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