W4 - Shakespeare 2
What do you know of
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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What do you know of
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Slide 1 - Woordweb
We know him from his plays but that's not how Shakespeare thought he would be famous.
Plays weren't printed in that time. First Folio 1623 (after his death in 1616).
He thought that sonnets would make him famous and that sonnets were the way to 'immortality'.
We call him THE bard - the best bard/poet that has ever lived.
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Take a guess: A Shakespearean sonnet (poem) has how many lines?
A
8
B
14
C
18
D
24
Slide 3 - Quizvraag
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Take a guess: Shakespeare wrote how many sonnets?
A
49
B
82
C
137
D
154
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Slide 5 - Tekstslide
First folio 1623
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Romantic Love
- Addressing sonnets to a young man was unique in Elizabethan England.
- Furthermore, Shakespeare used his sonnets to explore different types of love between the young man and the speaker, the young man and the dark lady, and the dark lady and the speaker. In his sequence, the speaker expresses passionate concern for the young man, praises his beauty, and articulates what we would now call homosexual desire. (Sonnets 1-126)
- The woman of Shakespeare’s sonnets, the so-called dark lady, is earthy, sexual, and faithless—characteristics in direct opposition to lovers described in other sonnet sequences, including Astrophil and Stella, by Sir Philip Sidney, a contemporary of Shakespeare, who were praised for their angelic demeanor, virginity, and steadfastness. (sonnets 127–154)
Dangers of Lust and Love
Many sonnets warn readers about the dangers of lust and love. According to some poems, lust causes us to mistake sexual desire for true love, and love itself causes us to lose our powers of perception.Real beauty versus Cliched beauty
Real love, the sonnet implies, begins when we accept our lovers for what they are as well as what they are not. Other sonnets explain that because anyone can use artful means to make himself or herself more attractive, no one is really beautiful anymore. Thus, since anyone can become beautiful, calling someone beautiful is no longer much of a compliment.
Responsibilty of being beautiful
Shakespeare urges the young man to procreate as he is so beautiful that beauty needs to be preserved.
In other words, the young man’s beauty allows him to get away with bad behavior, but this bad behavior will eventually distort his beauty, much like a rotten spot eventually spreads. Nature gave the young man a beautiful face, but it is the young man’s responsibility to make sure that his soul is worthy of such a visage.
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You can look up the stress of a word in a dictionary. Find a dictionary (online or paper) and find out what symbol is used to indicate the stress of a word (only fill in the symbol otherwise it will be wrong).
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Find a sentence in Iambic pentametre and proof that it's in iambic pentametre (you can upload a photo if that's easier).
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Look up or tell me: What does the speaker mean by 'regular prose'?
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Answer in your own words: Why did Shakespeare choose Iambic Pentametre?
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Explain IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
what is Iambic Pentametre?
what is Iambic Pentametre?
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Where's the stress in: "Beautiful"
A
beau
B
ti
C
ful
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Where's the stress in: "Reptile"
A
Rep
B
Tile
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