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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE(1564-1616) - Coggle Diagram
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE(1564-1616)
1) LIFE AND CONTEXT
BIRTH & DEAYH: April 23rd, 1564 - April 23rd 1616 (Straford-upon-Avon)
EDUCATION & MARRIAGE: Grammar school (ages 7-13); married Anne Hathaway at 18
LONDON CARRER (from 1592): Actor, playwright, patronized by the Earl of Southampton
GLOBE THEATRE: Shareholder of the "Lord Chamberlinain's Men"; rebuilt after 1613 fire
2)THE SONNETS
STRUCTURE: 3 quatrains +1 final couplet (Turning point at line 9 or couplet)
KEY ADRESSES:
Sonnets XIX-CXXVI: Times as antagonist (&'Rival poet')
Later Sonnets: 'Dark Lady' (unconvetional/negative female figure)
Sonnets I-XVIII: 'Fair Youth' (Shakespeare's patron, Earl of Southampton)
COLLECTIONS: 154 decasyllabic sonnets (published in 1609, written in the 1590s)
STYLE: Vivid/conversational language, abrupt beginnings, no classical references
3) THE PLACE & DRAMA
COMEDIES
FEATURES: Disguises, mistaken identity, romantic misunderstandings
RESOLUTION: Multiple marriages, movement out of parental control
TRAGEDIES
CLASSICAL CONTRAST: Balance between fate and human choice (character flaws)
STRUCTURE: Free from unities of time/place; tragic hero causes own downfall
DATING EVIDENCE: First Folio (1623); External, Internal, and Stylistic evidence
HISTORY PLAYS
SOURCES: Tudor chronicles & Wars of the Rosis (York VS. Lancaster)
IMPACT: Formed English national identity (organized in 2 tetralogies)
4) LANGUAGE AND STYLE
VERS VS. PROSE
VERSE: Used by aristocratic characters, in serius/dramaic scenes
PROSE: Used by lower classes, in comic scenes, informal talk
RHETORICAL DEVICES
Metaphors, Similes & Personification
IMAGERY: Light/darkness (Romeo and Juliet), nature, Elizabethan daily life
Antithesis & Hiperbole
IRONY: Verbal (saying opposite) VS. Dramatic (audience knows more than characters)
BLANK VERSE: Unrhymed iambic pentameter (unstressed/stressed pattern)
SOCIAL PRONOUNS
THEE/THOU: Closeness, friendship, or contempt towars an inferior
YOU: Formal, distant, respect for a superior or social courtesy