1. The thesis statement in The New York Times article is the one that says that little was known about Shakespeare’s life and that all people could know about him was from his plays.
2. Anon is a shorter way to say anonymous. Anon is also a Greek author who had little recognition and his name became a synonym for anonymous. Nobody knows about Anon’s life, his appearance or his personality, only about his works. There is a comparison of Anon to Shakespeare because scholars know little about Shakespeare’s life, but they can learn about it through his works. Smiley states that he is not Anon, but he is very similar to him.
3. Scholarship means everything that has to do with education, books, writing and the arts in general. The arts have changed …show more content…
7. Leir is the name of the real King of the Britons during the 12th Century. Lear is a different adaptation of the name used by Shakespeare in his famous play “King Lear”. The name Lear in english means Shakespearean king.
8. Shapiro says that court masques were the most elite art form of the 1600s. However, Shakespeare wasn’t too fond of them. Even though he wrote several masques that included dancing and singing, his true passion was elsewhere. His talents were more suited towards writing tragedies, which were his most popular plays, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, among others.
9. “King Lear”, “Macbeth” and “Antony and Cleopatra” were all written in the same year, 1606. Thins year was very eventful, and it inspired Shakespeare to write. The Gunpowder Plot, the plague and the rumored assassination of King James, happened months before Macbeth was first performed.
10. Shapiro mentions court masques in the Prologue of the book. He says that this new dramatic form has been competing with tragedies and comedies. The court masques included lavish costumes, music and choreography. These were performed for the King and cost more than 300 times the cost of a normal …show more content…
Smiley mentions that the Scottish were sinister and ambiguous. I think the Scottish are sinister because in Shakespeare’s play, “Macbeth”, many evil and violent things occurred. For example, the murder of the king, Banquo and Lady Macduff by Macbeth. The Scottish might be ambiguous because of the witches in Macbeth which were very strange and little information was given about them.
16. Forces both real and imagined means that even though the Gunpowder plot really happened and real forces caused it, there were also conspiracies that said that witches actually perpetrated this attack.
18. Knowing what was going on while a writer created his works is extremely important. When you know the types of things that occurred, it can help you better understand the inspiration of the author. During the year 1605, many things occurred in England, like the plague breakout, the gunpowder plot and the rumored assassination of King James. These things that we read in Shapiro’s book can allow us to understand certain themes in his plays like treason, tyranny and
2. Anon is a shorter way to say anonymous. Anon is also a Greek author who had little recognition and his name became a synonym for anonymous. Nobody knows about Anon’s life, his appearance or his personality, only about his works. There is a comparison of Anon to Shakespeare because scholars know little about Shakespeare’s life, but they can learn about it through his works. Smiley states that he is not Anon, but he is very similar to him.
3. Scholarship means everything that has to do with education, books, writing and the arts in general. The arts have changed …show more content…
7. Leir is the name of the real King of the Britons during the 12th Century. Lear is a different adaptation of the name used by Shakespeare in his famous play “King Lear”. The name Lear in english means Shakespearean king.
8. Shapiro says that court masques were the most elite art form of the 1600s. However, Shakespeare wasn’t too fond of them. Even though he wrote several masques that included dancing and singing, his true passion was elsewhere. His talents were more suited towards writing tragedies, which were his most popular plays, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, among others.
9. “King Lear”, “Macbeth” and “Antony and Cleopatra” were all written in the same year, 1606. Thins year was very eventful, and it inspired Shakespeare to write. The Gunpowder Plot, the plague and the rumored assassination of King James, happened months before Macbeth was first performed.
10. Shapiro mentions court masques in the Prologue of the book. He says that this new dramatic form has been competing with tragedies and comedies. The court masques included lavish costumes, music and choreography. These were performed for the King and cost more than 300 times the cost of a normal …show more content…
Smiley mentions that the Scottish were sinister and ambiguous. I think the Scottish are sinister because in Shakespeare’s play, “Macbeth”, many evil and violent things occurred. For example, the murder of the king, Banquo and Lady Macduff by Macbeth. The Scottish might be ambiguous because of the witches in Macbeth which were very strange and little information was given about them.
16. Forces both real and imagined means that even though the Gunpowder plot really happened and real forces caused it, there were also conspiracies that said that witches actually perpetrated this attack.
18. Knowing what was going on while a writer created his works is extremely important. When you know the types of things that occurred, it can help you better understand the inspiration of the author. During the year 1605, many things occurred in England, like the plague breakout, the gunpowder plot and the rumored assassination of King James. These things that we read in Shapiro’s book can allow us to understand certain themes in his plays like treason, tyranny and