Introduction to Shakespeare

• Drama
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 1

What do we know about William Shakespeare?

Today

Aim:

First hour - learning about  who Shakespeare is and answering questions 

Hour 2 - a Shakespearian performance

What do we already know about William Shakespeare?(think about last weeks lesson)

Why are we doing this?

- Period 2 Shakespeare project

- You will write a modern day version of part of a Shakespearian story in groups and perform it

In pairs

20 minutes to complete

You will watch a three minute film click to watch film

Open film worksheet and do exercise 2 + 3. Write answers on a blank piece of paper and put these in your drama book

This information will help you complete the final assignment

Finished? Read through your answers and check you are really sure!

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1 How many plays did Shakespeare write?

1. at least 28
2. at least 38
3. at least 48

2 How many languages have Shakespeare's plays been translated into?

1. Over 20
2. Over 50
3. Over 100

3 How many languages has Hamlet been performed in?

1. 75
2. 100
3. 50

4 When was a Shakespeare play first filmed?

1. 1900
2. 1950
3. 1925

5 How many people could fit in the Globe theatre?

1. 3000
2. 5000
3. 500

6 How much were people who wrote plays paid in Shakespeare's time?

1. £18
2. £12
3. £6

7 What did Shakespeare use to write his plays?

1. a feather
2. a pencil
3. a highlighter

8 What were Shakespeares poems called

1. Newspapers
2. Sonnets
3. Poems

9 What was rebuilt in London in 1997?

1. a statue of Shakespeare
2. a Shakespeare museum
3. a copy of the Globe Theatre

10 The stories told in most of Shakespeare’s plays are not original.

1. true
2. false

Assignment 2 and 3 answers

What do we now know about William Shakespeare?

Assignment

You are going to create a short Shakespearian style performance

There are three parts: choose a name

                                                    choose your insult

                                                    choose you moves

Choose a character name

Click this link

Click on male name

Or a female name

Write down the name of you character or choose on in the next slide

Female

Juliet

Olivia

Puck

Miranda

Imogen

Helena

Emilia

Hermione

Male

Romeo

Nathaniel

Lennox

Edmund

Julius

Walter

Alexander

Orlando

Insults

Thee - person you are talking to

Thou - you

Thine - your

Wouldst - you would

Dizzy eyed bugbear

Long tongu'd gossip!

Half-faced hedge pig

Spongy pignut

Fly bitten dog fish

You Banbury cheese!

Disgusting foot licker!

Lump of foul deformity!

More ear wax than brain!

Mountain of mad flesh

Shakespearian sword fight

In pairs counting to 3... then...

Come up with 3 sword fight moves

They must all be different

You may not touch each other

Now put them together to make one sword fight - one person dies dramatically!

Performance

Now put all three together

Think of a reason why these characters hate each other

Use their name and the insult in your performance

Now rehearse!