This lesson contains 43 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.
Lesson duration is: 30 min
Items in this lesson
Welcome v6
Slide 1 - Slide
Homework check
Slide 2 - Slide
1. Shakespeare is England’s most famous playwright and
A
Musician
B
Poet
C
Wanderer
D
Actor
Slide 3 - Quiz
2. His plays are known throughout the world, and he introduced up …….. words
A
500
B
100
C
3000
D
1500
Slide 4 - Quiz
4 He was born in the city of ……
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Yorkshire
B
Manchester
C
Stratford-upon-Avon
D
London
Slide 5 - Quiz
5 He was born in….
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1564
B
1455
C
1667
D
1781
Slide 6 - Quiz
6 He married….
A
Marie Antoinette
B
Anne Hathaway
C
Chloe Petra
D
Mary queen of Scots
Slide 7 - Quiz
7 He had ……. Children
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Seven
B
Four
C
Six
D
Three
Slide 8 - Quiz
8 Together with his co-players he built his own theatre called…
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The Globe
B
Odeon
C
Cinemax
D
Fox
Slide 9 - Quiz
9 He performed many times for….
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Elizabeth the second
B
Elizabeth the first
C
Mary the first
D
Mary the second
Slide 10 - Quiz
10 In his will he left ……… to his wife
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all his belongings
B
his second best bed
C
all his literary works
D
nothing at all
Slide 11 - Quiz
11 He died in ……..
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1599
B
1603
C
1616
D
1634
Slide 12 - Quiz
The plot of Romeo and Juliet
Read the statements about Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. Some are true and others are false.
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1. The story takes place in 1302.
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True
B
False
Slide 14 - Quiz
2. The play is set in Venice, Italy.
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True
B
False
Slide 15 - Quiz
3. Romeo first sees Juliet at a ball in the Montague house.
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True
B
False
Slide 16 - Quiz
4. Romeo kills Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, in revenge for his killing Romeo’s close friend and ally, Mercutio.
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True
B
False
Slide 17 - Quiz
5. Because of this execution, Romeo is forced to leave Verona.
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True
B
False
Slide 18 - Quiz
6. Juliet’s mother offers her a drug that will put her into a coma for ‘two and forty hours’ on the night before her planned wedding to Paris.
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True
B
False
Slide 19 - Quiz
7. When Juliet is found, she is believed to be dead.
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True
B
False
Slide 20 - Quiz
8. Romeo buys poison to kill himself when he hears the 'news' about Juliet's death.
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True
B
False
Slide 21 - Quiz
9. When Juliet awakens from her deep sleep, she realizes Romeo is dead and, panicking, she runs away.
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True
B
False
Slide 22 - Quiz
Slide 23 - Slide
Do assignment 1 (pp 23, 24)
Homework: do assignment 1a, b
timer
0:20
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Metaphysical poetry
Slide 25 - Slide
Why this kind of poetry?
It was a reaction to the overly elevated language used by 'poets' in the Renaissance.
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Meta-physical
Beyond - science / concrete things
A careful balance between reason and emotion
A surprising image or idea is presented in the opening lines to immediately grab the reader's attention.
The poems interweave lofty, educated language with rather coarse English
The poems reproduce the rhythm of spoken English, with unexpected breaks and changes of tempo (changes in metre)
Extensive use is made of conceits -->
Slide 27 - Slide
Conceit
A conceit is a metaphor.
-Very often two unlikely things are compared.
-The metaphor is extended (= longer and more complex than usual)
-Quite often it contains a scientific element
Example: two lovers are compared to two hemispheres forming one perfect and complete world.
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Assignment 3c
You should be able to do the same with another poem
(i.e. point out characteristics typical of a literary period)
Slide 29 - Slide
The Good Morrow - stanza 1
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?
’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
a child is weaned when it no longer breastfeeds
The Seven Sleepers slept in a cave for 300 years
Slide 30 - Slide
What did they do till they loved one another?
Slide 31 - Mind map
The Good Morrow - stanza 2
And now good-morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear;
For love, all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room an everywhere.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
They don't fear. But what is it they don't fear?
(Hint: what do lovers sometimes fear?)
The 17th century was the time of the great explorations and discoveries
Slide 32 - Slide
"And makes one little room an everywhere"
What is the little room? (no, not the toilet!)
Slide 33 - Open question
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
What are the lovers compared to? (What is the conceit?)
Slide 34 - Open question
The Good Morrow - stanza 3
My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
Where can we find two better hemispheres,
Without sharp north, without declining west?
Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
Hemisphere = 1/2 of the globe
Plato believed that things and people could go on for ever if their components were mixed perfectly
Slide 35 - Slide
"Without sharp north, without declining west?"
Why is the north a bad place?
Slide 36 - Open question
"My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"
That's how close they are. What are the eyes compared to?
Slide 37 - Open question
"Without sharp north, without declining west?"
Why is the west a bad place?
Slide 38 - Open question
"If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die." How exactly does the poet reason death away?
Slide 39 - Open question
Metaphysical
Meta: Beyond - Physical: concrete things
A careful balance between reason and emotion Emotion:The poem discusses both their deep love and how they deal with their fear to lose each other Reason: The perfect unity of the lovers is represented by two hemispheres, the immortality by Plato's philosophy about perfectly balanced components.
A surprising image or idea is presented in the opening lines to immediately grab the reader's attention. Here it's a non-poetic exclamation (about a boring time before they met) to introduce their perfect happiness now. 'By my troth' is quite vulgar.
Slide 40 - Slide
3 The poems interweave lofty, educated language with rather coarse English
Lines 1-4 are non-poetic, the rest is more educated.
4 The poems reproduce the rhythm of spoken English, with unexpected
breaks and changes of tempo (changes in metre)
The many commas make it quite irregular in rhythm. Clauses like 'each hath one, and is one' break the iambic metre.
5 Extensive use is made of conceits --> The image of the two worlds, getting concentrated into one world consisting of two hemispheres, which stand for Plato's perfectly mixed components that are able to defeat death.