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Shakespeare & the Sonnet (Sonnet (rich set of rules (metre (iambic…

- - - - Comedy of Errors
    - - King John, King Henry VI, Richard II
    - - Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth
- - - - Italian poet Francesco Petrarcha (14th C.)
      - Hundreds of love poems about 'Laura'
      - pattern
        
        ABBA - ABBA - CDC - DCD
        
        octave - a problem
        
        sestet - the answer / solution
        
        volta - the turn in between
      - ex. Elizabeth Barret Browning: Sonnet 21
        
        about love
        
        romantic poet
    - - Quartrain 1, 2 and 3 (! different)
      - Poetic turn then a couplet
      - Rhymes
        
        ABAB - CDCD - EFEF - GG
  - - - iambic pentametre
        
        a set of two beats, unstressed then stressed (beCAUSE, deSTROY)
        
        pentametre
        
        five sets of two (10 syllables in total)
- - - - first to refer to 'Great Britain*
      - From Scotland
        
        thus people were interested in Scotland
    - - The Gunpowder Plot (1605)
        
        Guy Fawkes
      - King James Bible
      - Colonisation of America
      - continued flowering of Elizabethan arts
    - - theatre was illegal before Shakespeare
      - The Globe (1599)
        
        burned down in 1613
        
        shut down in 1642, then demolished
        
        cheap tickets were available
  - - - 4 times in the play
      - feeding Macbeth's insanity & hunger for power
      - exposition & foreshadowing
      - a duplicity in their speech
    - - 'a man is a man is a man'
    - - The Lady wants Macbeth to be more manly without empathy (because he cares 'too much') and this comes full circle when she dies and he doesn't care