Transcript Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar
By William Shakespeare
• Shakespeare’s
Background
• Lived 1564-1616
• wrote 37 plays
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Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
• about 154 sonnets
• Started out as an
actor.
• Types of Plays
– Comedies:
WHITE FLAG
– Tragedies:
BLACK FLAG
– Histories:
RED FLAG
Kinds of Drama
• Tragedy- ends in the downfall or
death of a protagonist. May include
comic relief.
• Comedy- show ordinary people in
conflict with society. These usually
arise from misunderstandings,
deceptions, disapproving with
authority figures, and mistaken
identity. They are always resolved
happily!
• The Globe
• Original Globe was 3
stories and held about
3000 people.
• Aside from the other
owners (The Lord
Chamberlain’s
Men)Shakespeare’s
only owned 12% of the
theatre/
• The Globe
• All classes of people
attended plays there.
• No roof so that they
had sun light. So,
plays had to be during
the day.
• People often skipped
work to go.
• Was not allowed to be
built in the city of
London because
crowds often became
rowdy.
The
Audience
• Wealthy people sat
on benches
Groundlings, “poor
people”, had to
stand and watch
from the courtyard
– Women frowned
upon (had to wear
masks to attend)
– Threw rotten
vegetables at bad
performance
• There was much
more audience
participation than
today
What is a Soliloquy?
 A soliloquy :a character relates
his or her thoughts and feelings
to him/herself and no one is
supposed to hear.
Romeo’s Soliloquy-Act 2 Scene 2
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is my lady, O, it is my love!
Monologue
• A monologue: It is meant to be
heard by others.
An Incredible Monologue
Aside
• speaks to the audience but the
characters on stage can’t hear it.
TIME OUT: ZACK MORRIS
• LINK
Stage directions
• Instructions, about the
setting costumes,
lighting, scenery, and
props used onstage.
Stage directions are
printed in italics and
sometimes in
parentheses.
Foreshadowing
• the foretelling of a
future event. .
Friar Lawrence warns Romeo
that his romance with Juliet is
rash and hurried.
His warnings are an example of
Foreshadowing.
Dramatic Irony
• When the audience
knows more about
an unfolding
situation than the
character that is
experiencing it.
For example, the audience knows that
Juliet took a sleeping potion and isn't
really dead. Romeo's suicide affects the
audience even more because of this
knowledge.
Antagonist
The chief opponent of the protagonist in a
drama. In some cases there may be several
antagonists.
Protagonist:
The principle character in the play; the one
around whom the play focuses. The main
character.
Prologue
• An introductory speech
delivered to the audience
by one of the actors
before the play begins.
Prologues are also very
common in
Shakespearean theatre.
Epilogue
• A speech addressed to
the audience after the
conclusion of the play
and spoken by one of the
performers. Shakespeare
used this device in many
of his play.
PUN
• A play on words.
• EX: 1. Funny twist on a
word. (That is very
“punny”).
• EX: 2. homonyms:
multiple meanings
(“grave” means 2 things
and spellings (sun and
son).
Catharsis
• A Greek word that
Aristotle used in his
definition of tragedy. It
refers to vicarious
cleansing of certain
emotions in the members
of the audience through
those seeing emotions on
stage.