V6 - Shakespeare & Marlowe (Dr. Faustus, As You Like It, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice)

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V6 - The Renaissance (Shakespeare & Marlowe)

(Dr. Faustus, As You Like It, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice)

Previously...

Shakespeare's Language

Shakespeare's plays and their genres

Romeo and Juliet

Macbeth

Which is not one of the main genres that Shakespeare's plays can be categorised in

1. Comedy
2. Tragedy
3. Thriller
4. Historical

Both Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth are considered...

1. historical plays
2. tragedies
3. romantic plays
4. comedies

Why does Friar Lawrence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?

1. He needs the money
2. He believes they’re in love
3. He thinks it will unite the families
4. He was blackmailed by Romeo

What does Lady Macbeth think Macbeth lacks?

1. Modesty
2. The manliness to follow through on his ambitions
3. The ambition to ever become someone notable
4. The intelligence to be a king

How many witches appear in Shakespeare's Macbeth?

1. 5
2. 3
3. 1
4. 6

In which country does Macbeth take place

1. Scotland
2. England
3. Ireland
4. Wales

Why does Macbeth kill King Duncan?

1. Because he is in the English army not the Scottish one
2. Macbeth wants to take his place as king
3. So Duncan can't kill him first
4. Because Duncan is in love with Lady Macbeth

What is Lady Macbeth's plan for murdering Duncan?

1. Macbeth will pour poison in his ear while he sleeps and blame the King's brother.
2. Macbeth will stab him in his sleep and plant the bloody evidence on the servants.
3. Macbeth will hire three murderers to ambush Duncan when he returns to the castle on horseback.
4. Macbeth will push him out the window during a tour of the castle.

What is a moral lesson presented in Macbeth?

1. Ambition leads to downfall
2. Crime does not pay
3. Love conquers all
4. Power corrupts individuals

AS YOU LIKE IT

As You Like It - please take out the worksheet + notebook/pen

Individually (in silence), write down your answers to the following questions.

Explain the extended metaphor (life, people, stages in life, birth, death)

Write a modern summary of each age

What is the tone of the text? Why do you think so?

The Merchant of Venice

Antonio's money is on his ships, but then they are reported lost at sea... Shylock demands a piece of flesh, the part surrounding the heart.

Portia, dressed up as a lawyer, defends Antonio from Shylock's legal suit.  Like a proper lawyer, she gets Antonio off on a technicality (Shylock may only take the flesh if he can get it without spilling the blood) 

Shylock ends by being forced to renounce his faith and his fortune.

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

The Merchant of Venice

This drama is one of the great plays, classified as a comedy, by William Shakespeare. The plot involves Shylock, a greedy Jewish money-lender. Most money lenders were Jewish, since it was one of the only few professions they were allowed to have. 

Also, Christians could not charge interests on loans.

The Merchant of Venice

Shylock has lost his beloved daughter when she elopes with a man who belongs to a virulently anti-Semitic society. 

Through his friend Antonio (The Merchant of Venice), Bassanio takes out a loan so that he can woo the beautiful and wealthy Portia. Shylock loans him the money, but if he fails to repay the debt, he demands a literal 'pound of flesh' from Antonio.

The Merchant of Venice

Antonio's money is on his ships, but then they are reported lost at sea... Shylock demands a piece of flesh, the part surrounding the heart.

Portia, dressed up as a lawyer, defends Antonio from Shylock's legal suit.  Like a proper lawyer, she gets Antonio off on a technicality (Shylock may only take the flesh if he can get it without spilling the blood) 

Shylock ends by being forced to renounce his faith and his fortune.

When you prick us...

I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his flesh: what's that good for?

To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew.

Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany youteach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but Iwill better the instruction.

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus

known for short as: Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593)

Shakespeare's contemporary

Scholars say Marlowe heavily influenced Shakespeare's plays (Marlovian themes)

Established dramatic blank verse (poetry that doesn't rhyme in iambic pentameter)

Dr. Faustus

Before we get there...

This story has inspired many contemporary stories

What do these have in common?

Dr. Faustus Quotes

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us. Why, then belike, we must sin, and so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death. What doctrine call you this? Che serà, serà: What will be, shall be! Divinity, adieu! These metaphysics of magicians And necromantic books are heavenly; Lines, circles, letters, characters— Ay, these are those that Faustus most desires. O, what a world of profit and delight, Of power, of honor, and omnipotence Is promised to the studious artisan! (Faustus contemplates making the deal)

Now, Faustus, must thou needs be damned; Canst thou not be saved! What boots it then to think on God or heaven? Away with such vain fancies, and despair— Despair in God and trust in Belzebub! Now go not backward. Faustus, be resolute! Why waver’st thou? O something soundeth in mine ear, “Abjure this magic, turn to God again.” Ay, and Faustus will turn to God again. To God? He loves thee not; The god thou serv’st is thine own appetite Wherein is fixed the love of Belzebub! To him I’ll build an altar and a church And offer lukewarm blood of newborn babes! (Faustus wonders if he made the right choice)

My God, my God! Look not so fierce on me! Adders and serpents, let me breathe awhile! Ugly Hell, gape not! Come not Lucifer! I’ll burn my books!—O Mephostophilis! (Faustus - at the very end - pleads to go back to God)

Previously...

Romeo and Juliet

Macbeth

As You Like It

The Merchant of Venice

Dr. Faustus (by Christopher Marlowe)

Today: review + Hamlet

In which country does Macbeth take place

1. Scotland
2. England
3. Ireland
4. Wales

What's NOT in the witches' prophecy about Macbeth?

1. He will become king
2. No one born of a woman can kill him
3. He will lose his wife
4. He won't be conquered until the woods march to him

Why does Macbeth kill King Duncan?

1. Because he is in the English army not the Scottish one
2. Macbeth wants to take his place as king
3. So Duncan can't kill him first
4. Because Duncan is in love with Lady Macbeth

In what way does the play Doctor Faustus fit the Renaissance time period?

1. It shows how people started to focus on life on Earth, instead of the afterlife
2. It shows how people start to move away from the idea that God is the center of life
3. It shows how critical research/science becomes more important
4. It refers to the ancient Greek and Roman times

Who wrote Dr. Faustus?

1. William Shakespeare
2. Christopher Marlowe
3. Geoffrey Chaucer
4. Queen Victoria

For what does Dr. Faustus sell his soul to the devil?

1. to be rich for 24 years
2. to become more intelligent for 24 years
3. to have 24 wives
4. to visit 24 countries

Which kind of rhyme can you find in Dr. Faustus?

1. Assonance
2. Alliteration
3. Blank Verse
4. End Rhyme

What kind of play is The Merchant of Venice?

1. A tragedy
2. A comedy
3. A mystery play
4. A historical play

Who is the Merchant of Venice?

1. Antonio
2. Shylock
3. Bassanio
4. Lorenzo

Who does the Merchant of Venice take out a loan for?

1. Antonio
2. Shylock
3. Bassanio
4. Lorenzo

Why can Shylock ask interest for the loan of money?

1. He is a Christian so he should help other Christians.
2. He is a Jew ,it is not considered a sin for Jews to make a profit from usury.
3. He is a respectable friend of Antonio.
4. He is the only rich merchant in Venice

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. understatement
4. hyperbole

HAMLET

Hamlet - Introduction

This drama is one of the great tragedy themed plays by William Shakespeare. The themes of the plot cover indecision, revenge and retribution, deception, ambition, loyalty and fate.

 

Prince Hamlet mourns both his father's death and his mother, Queen Gertrude's remarriage to Claudius. The ghost of Hamlet's father appears to him and tells him that Claudius has poisoned him. Hamlet swears revenge.

Due to all of the worries, betrayal and stress Hamlet is slowly becoming insane….. Or is that just an act…?

What is the connection between these pictures?

Matches Hamlet

No Match

prosperous

morbid

elderly

depressed

unimportant

youthful

deprived

cheerful

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To be or not to be - text

To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortuneOr to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them?—To die,—to sleep,— No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to,—’tis a consummationDevoutly to be wish’d. To die,—to sleep;— To sleep: perchance to dream:—ay, there’s the rub;

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there’s the respectThat makes calamity of so long life;For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,The pangs of despis’d love, the law’s delay,The insolence of office, and the spurnsThat patient merit of the unworthy takes,When he himself might his quietus makeWith a bare bodkin?

who would these fardels bear,To grunt and sweat under a weary life,But that the dread of something after death,— The undiscover’d country, from whose bournNo traveller returns,—puzzles the will,And makes us rather bear those ills we haveThan fly to others that we know not of?Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;And thus the native hue of resolutionIs sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought;And enterprises of great pith and moment,With this regard, their currents turn awry,And lose the name of action.

 

To be or not to be - Assignment

Infographic

We have now discussed 6 plays (1 by Marlowe, 5 by Shakespeare), 2 novels (Brave New World + 12 Angry Men) and the Renaissance period

Sit with group (check board)

Each group chooses one topic from the list and makes a PowerPoint or Canva slide/illustration/infographic with the following:

The plot, setting, the main characters, important themes of the story, the author, what the story means today (include pictures or maps too). 

In the case of the Renaissance, take the most important events and characteristics of this time and create an infographic.

TOPICS: 1) Hamlet, 2) Romeo & Juliet, 3) The Merchant of Venice, 4) As You Like It, 5) Macbeth, 6) Dr. Faustus, 7) Brave New World, 8) 12 Angry Men, 9) The Renaissance