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Knowledge Base: English Shakespeare Showdown Year 8 | Summer Term 2
Vocabulary
1.1
dialogue
A conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or film.
1.2
iambic pentameter
A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example Two households, both alike in dignity.
1.3
monologue
A long speech by one actor in a play or film, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast programme.
Plays and their conventions
3.1
Comedy
Example: The Tempest
A Shakespearean comedy uses jokes and puns (play on words) and often features mistaken identity, confusion, and coincidence. The plays focus a lot on love and romance.
3.2
Tragedy
Example: Macbeth
In Shakespearean Tragedy, the tragic hero sets out on a course of action but because of a flaw in his character, evil enters and is the cause of the catastrophe. Shakespeare believed that his tragedies showed the struggle between good and evil in the world.
3.3
History
Example: Richard III
The plays normally referred to as Shakespeare history plays are
the ten plays that cover English history from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and the 1399-1485 period in particular. Each historical play is named after, and focuses on, the reigning monarch of the period.
1.4 rhyme
A word or series of words that has the same last sound as another word.
1.5
rhythm
A strong pattern of sounds, words, or musical notes that is used in music, poetry, and dancing.
1.6
scene
A part of a play or film in which the action stays in one place for a continuous period of time.
1.7
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, an English playwright who wrote many famous plays in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
1.8
soliloquy
A speech in a play that the character speaks to himself or herself or to the people watching rather than to the other characters.
Context
4.1
Shakespeare
A playwright from Stratford-upon-Avon, born in 1564. He wrote 39 plays and over 150 sonnets.
4.2
The Globe
The theatre in which Shakespeare put on his plays. Built in 1599 and rebuilt in 1614.
4.3
London in the Shakespea rean Era
London in the Elizabethan era was dirty, noisy and crowded. New ideas around literature and science were constantly being discovered.
4.4
Queen Elizabeth
On 7th September 1533, a baby girl was born to parents Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII. She was named Elizabeth, and would eventually become Queen Elizabeth I- a woman who many believe was one of the greatest monarchs of England. She reigned for 44 years, from 1558 to her death in 1603.
4.5
King James
He was King of Scotland for 36 years (as James VI) and then became King of England in 1603—and the first Stuart monarch in the British royal line. James became the nominal monarch of Scotland46in 1567, and in 1583, he took full control of the crown.
1.9 theatre
A building or space used for performances and shows.
Techniques
2.1
aside
A remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.
2.2
dramatic irony
A technique wherein the audience know more than the characters on stage.
2.3 pace
2.4 pause
2.5 pitch
2.6 proximity
The speed of a performer's movement or speech. A temporary stop in action or speech.
How high or low you set your voice to speak. How near or far actors are from one another.
2.7
soliloquy
a speech in a play that the character speaks to himself or herself or to the people watching rather than to the other characters.
2.8 tone
A way of speaking that expresses the speaker's feelings of thoughts.
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