Studies in Literature: Shakespeare

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Europe in 1600. Note the various distances: London to Venice, and Venice to Cyprus.

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MIT.EDU LINKS to the full texts -- of the plays, AND OF THE SONNETS!

Othello
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Henry IV, Part 1
The Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare

Strategic Words & Ideas to Include on your Cheat Sheet

Common Elizabethan words to know this Friday:

And or an' (not as a conjunction, but as a conjunctive adverb!)

wanton (hint: not a type of Chinese food) (III, i)

maugre (III, i)

vouchsafe(d) (III, i)

upbraid(s) (III, i)

fetter (III, i)

laudable (III, ii)

pedant (III, ii)

forbear (III, ii)

chide (III, iii)

beguile (III, iii)

chuck (III, iv)

incensement (III, iv)

sepulcher (III, iv)

forswear (III, iv)

dissemble (IV, ii)

lustrous (IV, ii)

"Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge" (Act III, sc. 3, l. 79)

Link to the Entire Text of HAMLET, by Wm. Shakespeare

Here is a link to the MIT text of Hamlet. (Note that if you wish to do so, you can open the entire play on one page!)

"Here, thou incestious, murd'rous, damned Dane, / Drink off this potion." (Act V, sc. ii, ll. 325-326).

Shakespeare?

Master of Chiasmus

What is chiasmus? Chiasmus is what?

Chiasmus in Midsummer:

"The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth,
from earth to heaven."

Here is a good article on chiastic structure in Shakespeare.

A gull...

Notes on Lancaster, Lancashire, and the Bolingbroke family origins

What Is a Shire? Also, what's the Difference between a County & a Shire?
How to Sound like Prince Hal
Lancaster and Manchester

Sir John of the Old Castle

The King

Falstaff and Prince Hal

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