Shakespeare Background

*Take Notes

First, download and read "Shakespeare & His World_Schoenbaum," and check out the fun pictures!

Globe Theatre—

·      Groundlings & Upper Class

·      Stage Construction: Heavens, Earth, Hell

Drama—

·      Comedy & Tragedy

·      Stage Directions

·      Acts/movements/plots

Only male actors

Elizabethan Era—

·      England made Protestant by Henry VIII

·      Elizabeth’s rule

·      Standards of femininity

·      Courtship & beauty

Vocabulary—

·      Parallel Text words

·      Standardized questioning practice

·      Shakespeare speak (troth, doth, sirrah, etc…)