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73 Cards in this Set
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Globe
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Main theater of Shakespeare's plays
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Tiring House
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Area behind stage where actors rest
-help avoid distractions |
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Liberties
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Areas in London where plays/theaters are located
-tends to be shady, , has hospitals full of lepers, brothels. -links theater with some negative things and danger |
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Repertory Company
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Works together to put on several plays (same company)
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Lord Chamberlin’s Men/King’s Men
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Shakespeare’s company (men’s)
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Men’s Company/Boy’s Company
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actors are men/boys
-no women ever on main London stages |
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Sharers
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Principle adult players, have a financial stake, own part of the company
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Boys
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Smaller parts, hired people
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Doubling
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One actor plays more than one character
-can make a statement about parallels or opposites between roles. How are the characters that are doubled connected? |
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Chauncer
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Medieval English writer
-Source of MSND |
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Ovid
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Latin writer (metamorphosis)
-Source of MSND |
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New Comedy
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Classical (Greece and Rome) flourished, some main characteristics-type characters, concerns for love
-Source of MSND |
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Tricky servants
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character plays tricks on master (new comedy)
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Senex irotus
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angry old man, to be rebelled against, source of comedy, threat
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Diction
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word choice
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Denouement
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“untying” conclusion, problems get untied
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Perspective
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how the angle from which you look at something changes/affects the way you see it
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Closure
-Aesthetic -Political |
how something ends, how the ending is created
-move to a different kind of verse -first to impose has a “power” –used as a way to assert power |
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Off-rhyme/Slant-rhyme
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almost, but not quite rhyming
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Thematized
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enclosed man-assertion of her power over him
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Anaphora
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beginning of lines and phrases with the same word
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Epiphera
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closing lines and sentences with the same word
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Commutatio
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reversal of order of words, to suggest reversal of meaning
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Comedy
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defined relationally -comedy ends happily
-vs. tragedy (ends sad, about evil) |
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Sonnet
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14 line poem generally following rhyme pattern and usually about love, but also about politics and religion
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Petrarch
-Rimesparse -Canzoniere |
Italian poet, wrote sonnets
-scattered rhyme (title for Petrarch’s sonnets) |
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Quatrain
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group of 4 lines, 1 and 3, 2 and 4 rhyme
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Volta
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turns, changes meaning (in sonnet) generally occurs after line 8
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Octet
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a, b, b, a, a, b, b, a
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Oxymoron
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rhetorical figure language that links together opposites, usually 1 adjective & 1 noun
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Blaz(s)on
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description of a body, part by part, usually moving from head to foot.
-turned into parts instead of whole person, asserting masculine control |
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Procreation sonnets
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he advises reader to get married
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Deictic
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pointed word, shows position relation
Ex: this, that, here, there, etc. |
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Nationalism
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series of beliefs celebrating individual country
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Renaissance
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connected with rebirth of learning
-different periods in different countries -wasn’t renaissance for everyone -implies that learning had been lost -focuses on bringing back- limits progress |
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Early modern
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between middle ages and modern period
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Elizabeth/Elizabethan
Tudor |
ruled 2nd half of 16th century
-family on the throne in 16th century |
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James/Jacobean
Stuart |
ruled after Elizabeth
-royal family |
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Baron
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powerful aristocrat
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Spanish Armada
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Spanish navy defeated by England
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Reformation
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move from Catholicism to Protestant –economic change in England
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Calvin and Luther
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leader of reformation- protestant leaders
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anaphora
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beginning of lines and phrases with same word
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epiphera
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closing lines and sentences with same word
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Commutatio
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reversal of order of words, to suggest reversal of meaning
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comedy
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defined relationally v. tragedy
-ends happily, people being foolish -ends sad, about evil |
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oxymoron
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rhetorical figure language that links together opposites, usually 1 adjective and 1 noun
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codpiece
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pants taht showed off balls
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dramatic irony
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audience knows something the character doesn't
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soliloquy
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speech delivered on stage, character talking to themselves, apparently alone
-gives info, shows thoughts and emotions |
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seneca
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playwright in classical Rome
-tragedies had a big impact, melodramatic |
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senecan monologue
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way characters deliver soliloquies in Senecan drama
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fourth wall
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theory actors are in a separate world, unconscious of audience
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alba, aubade
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lovers talking at dawn
-type of poem |
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apostrophe
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address to something inadament
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anaphora
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beginning of lines and phrases with same word
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epiphera
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closing lines and sentences with same word
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Commutatio
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reversal of order of words, to suggest reversal of meaning
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comedy
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defined relationally v. tragedy
-ends happily, people being foolish -ends sad, about evil |
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oxymoron
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rhetorical figure language that links together opposites, usually 1 adjective and 1 noun
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codpiece
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pants taht showed off balls
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dramatic irony
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audience knows something the character doesn't
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soliloquy
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speech delivered on stage, character talking to themselves, apparently alone
-gives info, shows thoughts and emotions |
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seneca
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playwright in classical Rome
-tragedies had a big impact, melodramatic |
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senecan monologue
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way characters deliver soliloquies in Senecan drama
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fourth wall
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theory actors are in a separate world, unconscious of audience
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alba, aubade
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lovers talking at dawn
-type of poem |
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apostrophe
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address to something inadament
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convention
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-comedy=confusion->order
-tragedy=apparent order->loss |
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Aristotle
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greek philosopher, scientist, writer of tragedies.
-suggests tragedies involve someone noble -invokes pity and fear |
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hamartia
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tragic flaw (Aristotle, greek)
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Peripeteia
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reversal, move from moment,
-going well to going terribly |
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anagorisis
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recognition, person or basic truths
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