This lesson contains 28 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.
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Today: Othello act 5
Slide 1 - Slide
Test in test week: BYOD test
Take your laptop to class
with a full battery
Slide 2 - Slide
The test
Learn:
-Background (lessons 1 and 2, 6)
-Plot: Make sure you know what happens, who is who.
-Quotations (paraphrase): who says what in which situation?
-Study the characters and the facts about handkerchief (lessons 3-7)
Slide 3 - Slide
Kind of Questions
BYOD test
Multiple Choice / drag questions
Short open questions
Questions about the text (paraphrase)
Essay-questions
Slide 4 - Slide
Recap: facts about the Elizabethan theatre
Slide 5 - Slide
Elizabethan theatre
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Elizabethan theatre
Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1558-1603)
Lord Chamberlain's men: company of actors for which Shakespeare wrote (after 1603: The King's Men)
Richard Burbage: main actor, played all the leading roles.
Going to theatre was very popular
Slide 7 - Slide
Mention two important facts about Elizabethan actors.
Slide 8 - Open question
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Slide 10 - Slide
The Globe
Built in 1598
Outside of London no control of the Puritan city officials (who were hostile to theatres) fear of the spread of diseases (the Plague) plays attracted crime / people skipped work etc.
Could take up to 3000 people
All sorts of people visited
Slide 11 - Slide
William Shakespeare lived in the...
A
15th century
B
16th century
C
17th century
D
18th century
Slide 12 - Quiz
Who visited the plays at The Globe theatre?
A
all sorts of people
B
only people from court
C
only men
D
only the poor
Slide 13 - Quiz
What kind of plays did Shakespeare not write?
A
Tragedies
B
Musicals
C
History plays
D
Comedies
Slide 14 - Quiz
The Globe was built outside London because...
A
the plays produced a lot of noise
B
theatres were banned within the city limits
C
it was illegal to visit a play
D
there was no space for such a big theatre in the city
Slide 15 - Quiz
Plays were performed in the afternoon because
A
they needed the daylight.
B
the city-walls closed at seven.
C
in the evenings the actors had to perform elsewhere.
D
people didn't want to travel in the dark.
Slide 16 - Quiz
1. Early London theaters like The Globe had no roof. 2. A large portion of the audience would stand in the yard, directly in front of the stage.