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staying entry |
booksellers would "copyright" a play, and maintain the right to print and present it |
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Stationer's register |
record book that register publishers' right to copy printed plays |
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primogeniture |
being the first born child |
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morality plays |
personified abstract qualities that teach a lesson about being good, 15-16th century |
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miles gloriosus |
the swaggering soldier (parolles) |
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master of revels |
would put a seal on the final copy of a play in order for it to be performed |
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james and richard burbage |
James Burbage built the Theatre and Richard, his son, was considered the first great actor |
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the Theatre (in Shoreditch) |
2nd theatre ever built in England, and the first successful one, employed Lord Chamberlain's Men (and hence shakespeare), boards from it used to build the globe |
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good quarto |
(legal) copy of a play, written on twice folded paper |
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golden world |
associated with eden, no death or suffering, |
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commedia dell arte |
form of theatre, performed by professionals playing masked tropes |
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arden |
warwickshire england, used to be heavily wooded, hence arden forest |
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arcadia |
mountainous region of greece where they had philosophical debates and read poetry |
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anti-straffordians |
people who believe shakespeare didn't write his entire canon because of where he was from |
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stratford-upon-avon |
where he was from |
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dark years |
1865-1872, when no one knew where shakespeare was or what he was doing |
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mary arden |
mother of william shakespeare |
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Susanna, Hamnet, and Judith |
shakespeare's children |
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Anne Hathaway |
shakespeare's wife |
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john shakespeare |
shakespeare father, tanner/glover, alderman, very influencial |
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problem plays |
there are three, including all's well, that present dark themes despite being comedies, include sexual deviancy |
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mystery plays |
medieval plays based on saints or biblical stories |
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green world |
"wild" setting near the city, where social order and relationship issues are restored so the people can return home |
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heminges and condell |
actors in the King's men, helped create the first folio |
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petrarch |
pastoral poems about boys who write love sonnets to scornful mistresses |
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pirated plays |
done by memorizing and recounting entire plays |
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bed-trick |
switching places with another woman in order to trick a man into having sex with her |
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festive comedies |
much ado, as you like it, twelfth night, midsummer |
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melancholy man |
brooding, sets apart from the crowd because he lurks in shadows thinking deep, romantic thoughts |
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fair and foul papers |
the final, spruced up manuscript, and the one fresh from the writer's hand |
