Top 5 things about Context

1. Postcolonial Literature: Main ideas- identity, self, othering, marginalization, hybridization, colonization, imperial center.
2.How to analyze a sonnet:

  • Mark the rhyme and meter
  • Paraphrase each quatrain and heroic couplet
  • Look for a theme
  • Look for how each quatrain or couplet develops the theme. Literary devices?
  • Look for the Vulva (A change in the sonnet, usually in line 9.)

3.There are 4 different types of Shakespearian plays:

  • Tragedies (Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet)
  • Romance (Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest
  • Comedies (Much ado about nothing, 12th Night)
  • Historical (Henry the IV)

4.Theatre:

  • Liturgical Drama- Biblical stories acted out during church servies
  • Morality Plays- Obviously allegorical. Death and fellowship would be characters instead of somethings like “Tom”.
  • Elizabethan Poor laws: effort to contain poverty, people without jobs werent allowed to travel.
  • James Burbage-Created the first theater called “The Theatre” later moved by shakespeare’s men and called the Globe.

5. Shakespeare’s Life

  • First two plays were “Henry 6th” and “Two Gentlemen of Verona”/
  • He wrote a total of 37 plays
  • Almost all of his plays are based on history
  • Ended his schooling around the age of 14/15
  • Was forced to speak and write Latin
  • Did not have a good relationship with his kids or wife.
  • Some of his sonnets feature a rival poet, and scholars call the woman in these poems the “Dark Lady”
  • His son died at an early age, leaving him no air to his belongings.

Top 5 things about Content

1.Prospero was overthrown by his brother and exiled to the island. At the island, he took prisoners (Ariel and Caliban), and lived with his adopted daughter Miranda. He was a magical being.
2. The island originally belonged to Caliban and his mother. Prospero took control, and later on in the play Trinculo and Stephano try and take control of the island.
3. At the end of the novel, Prospero gives up his magic, frees Ariel, and forgives all of his prisoners.
4.Prospero wants Miranda to marry Ferdinand, but he makes it very difficult for them to do so. Ferdinand must work hard to show his love and respect for Miranda in order from them to get married.
5. Prospero has planned almost all the events that are happening on the island. He causes the shipwreck, he wants Miranda and Ferdinand to fall in love, but makes it difficult for him to earn her love.

SONNET 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Multiple Choice

The Tempest
Audie Held, Kaylee Spruill, Bethany Cooper
1. In 1200 AD, theater was done in?
A. churches
B. pageant wagons
C. traditional theater
D. the streets
2. Who developed the 1st theater?
A. Shakespeare
B. Burbage
C. Queen Elizabeth
D. None of the above
3. What were Shakespeare’s 1st two plays?
A. Henry 6th and The Tempest
B. Henry 6th and Romeo & Juliet
C. Henry 6th and Midsummers Night Dream
D. Henry 6th and 2 Gentlemen of Verona
4. In a sonnet there are _ quatrains.
A. 4
B. 2
C. 3
D. 5
5. Which is not a part of analyzing sonnets?
A. rhyme/meter
B. paraphrase
C. theme
D. title
6. The Tempest is?
A. post colonial
B. post modernism
C. modern
D. middle age
7. Masque’s are performed by?
A. all females
B. masked actors
C. humans and animals
D.magicians
8. Prospero does NOT do which of the following at the end of the novel?
A. give up his magic
B. give Ariel his magic
C. free Ariel
D. forgive his prisoners
9. If the island was passed down only to relatives, who would be the rightful owner?
A. Prospero
B. Alonzo
C. Caliban
D. Ariel
10. In Act 1, scene 1, who caused the storm?
A. Prospero
B. Ferdinand
C. The Gods
D. Caliban
11. Biblical stories acted out during church services would be?
A. Elizabethan Law
B. Pageant Wagons
C. Morality Plays
D. Liturgical Drama
12. Shakespeare’s Romances happened within?
A. 1 week
B. 24 hours
C. 2 months
D. 2 years
13. In Romances, the plot’s concerned with _?
A. Redemption
B. Others
C. History
D. Happpiness
14. Prospero cuts the masque short because?
A. he doesn’t want Ferdinand to marry Miranda
B. he forgot Ariel’s plan to kill him
C. he forgot Caliban’s plan to kill him
D. he forgot Ferdinand’s plan to kill him
15. In a sonnet, what is the vulva?
A. opening line
B. change in rhyme
C. change in tone
D. closing line
16. Who overthrew Prospero?
A. Antonio
B. Alonzo
C. Caliban
D. Ferdinand
17. Shakespeare wrote _ plays.
A. 117
B. 42
C. 37
D. 70
18. Shakespeare ended schooling at age?
A. 14
B. 10
C. 16
D. 7
19. True/False? Ferdinand is the King of Naples.
A. true
B. false
20. Shakespeare died on:
A. birthday
B. anniversary
C. christmas
D.halloween