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| What is the descending order of the chain of being? |
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| God-Angels-Mankind-Animals-Plants-Inanimates |
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| What takes man closer to the angels on the chain of being? |
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| What takes man closer to the animals on the chain of being? |
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| What is the Ptolemaic (geocentric) theory of the universe? |
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| Everything except God revolves around the Earth and mankind |
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| What is the Copernican (heliocentric) theory of the universe? |
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| Planets revolve around suns. |
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| Why were people in Shakespeare's time not embracing the new Copernican theory? |
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| Because it hurt their self-esteem since they were no longer the center of creation. |
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| What religion was Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife |
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| What are two reason the theaters were closed during Shakespeare's lifetime? |
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| The Puritans closed it and it was also closed for an outbreak of the plague as well. |
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| Where was Shakespeare born? |
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| Stratford-on-Avon in England |
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| Who was Shakespeare's wife? |
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| Who were Shakespeare's parents? |
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| John Shakespeare and Mary Arden |
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| What was Shakespeare's father's occupation? |
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| Glovemaker and mayor for a short time |
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| Who were the two monarchs during Shakespeare's lifetime? |
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| Queen Elizabeth I and King James I |
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| How many plays did Shakespeare write? |
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| What were the two names Shakespeare's theatrical company went by? |
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| Lord Chamberlain's Men and King's Men |
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| Where did Shakespeare retire? |
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| New Place (building in Stratford) |
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| What country did Shakespeare set several of his plays in? |
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| What was the time period Shakespeare lived in called? |
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| What were the poorer playgoers called and how much did they pay to see a play? |
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| Before theaters were built, where did acting companies perform their plays? |
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| What was Shakespeare's theatre called? |
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| What were the name of some theaters Shakespeare's theatre competed with? |
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| Swan, Rose, and the Curtain |
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| Who performed the female roles? |
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| Theaters in Shakespeare's time used little what? |
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| What gave theatrical productions flash and color? |
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| What did actors substitute for a lost eyeball? |
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| What is the classical definiton of tragedy? |
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| A person of noble birth is brought down by a single weakness or fatal flaw. |
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| What is the classical definition of comedy? |
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| Protagonist triumphs over his/her limitations so the story has a happy ending. |
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| What happened to the original Globe theatre? |
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| It burnt down after Shakespeare retired during one of his history plays when they shot off a cannon. |
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| What was another popular entertainment next door that Shakespeare had to compete with for the groundlings' penny? |
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| Where were Greek plays performed? |
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| What were the names of the 4 humours? |
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| Sanguine (happy), choleric (angry), melancholy (sad), phlegmatic (lazy) |
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| The 4 humours decided what kind of _________ a person had. |
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| What were two additional elements that were part of a play? |
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| Music/singing and dancing |
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| How did playgoers express their disapproval of a play? |
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| They threw rotten fruit and vegetables. |
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| When were plays performed and why were they performed then? |
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| Daylight hours because there was no artifical light and fire was too great a risk to use |
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| What does Old English look like? |
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| Mostly it's very different from NE and has to be translated. A few words like mann, hors, hus, riht, wif, nett, god, etc. do form the base vocabulary of words we use today. |
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| Old English was spoken until what century? |
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| What branch of the Indo-European family tree does Old English belong to? |
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| When was Middle English spoken? |
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| 11th through 14th centuries |
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| What does Middle English look like? |
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| You can read later Middle English if you have a good glossary |
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| Is Shakespeare's language Old English, Middle English, or Modern English? |
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| Modern English (It's just very early modern English.) |
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