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The Globe Theatre
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- No producer or director
- Three tiers - Minimal props and scenery - Extravagent costumes and makeup - Female roles played by boys - No special effects - Minimal rehersal time - Shakespeare didn't own rights to his plays |
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The Three Tiers
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- Hell --> villians fell through trapdoor into pits of damnation
- Heaven --> Canopy extended across stage to back wall - Earth --> stage |
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Audience
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- "The whole spectrum"
- Aristocrats --> special seats - Groundlings --> paid penny for admission - Women were permitted - 10% of London's population regularly attended theatre |
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Aside
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Speech in which character turns away and reveals true feelings
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Blank verse
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Braggart soldier
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- Standard comic figure dating from antique Roman comedy
- Talks a lot - Actions are mostly confined to words |
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Foil
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A character who by contrast illuminates the hero's qualities
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Iambic pentameter
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- Standard metric form because of its easy inflection and rythm closely mymic the natural speaking voice
- Each line contains ten syllables consisting of an unaccented syllable following an accented one |
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The Four Humors
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1. Phelgm- sluggish, pale, cowardly, stupid
2. Black bile- quick to anger, unmerciful, depressed 3. Blood- lovesick 4. Yellow bile- excessively jovial and lusty |
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Solioquy
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Speech in which speaker is alone with private thoughts
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Vice
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An allegorical personification of evil and temptation (character)
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Quibble
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Form of verbal wrestling in which each opponent tries to squeeze as many meanings as possible out of one word
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The Great Chain of Being
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- Method for ordering the universe
- Chaos was Elizabethans' greatest fear - "All things in their proper chaos, in their proper proportion." God --> Angels --> Man --> Animals --> Plants --> Ground, rocks |
