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Why We Still Study Shakespeare
Why We Still Study Shakespeare
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A quiz on a SSC, Leichhardt PowerPoint introducing the historical context of Shakespeare.
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A historical watershed is
a point in history when we figured out how to store water
a point in history where rainfall was very high
a famous point in history
a point that separates one period of history from another
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We study older texts like Shakespeare tosee...
how the masters wrote
what life was like in ancient times
what poetic techniques can be used in our own work
how long some of our culturalassumptions have been around
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We study older texts like Shakespeare tosee
if we can learn about his life and times
what life was like for cave men in Scotland
how some of our cultural assumptions havechanged
what we can see LA LA LA LA LA
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A key feature of increasing your power and wealth under a mercantile system is the need to
move goods from places they are common to places they aren't
conquer new markets
build predictable and peaceful relationships between places
acquire more lands to farm on
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A key feature of increasing your power and wealth under monarchy is the need to
eliminate other claimants to titles like Thane/King
turn surplus goods into profits
trade good in places that don't have them
fight and take-over neighbouring lands
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Dame Ellen Terry argues that Shakespeare created
plays customized for strong female actors
fearless, high-spirited, resolute and intelligent heroines
typically misogynist representations of "evil" women
the human being as we now know it
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Shakespeare and the intellectuals of the enlightenment period shared a very different view of
the notion of the eternal soul
the relationship between city and country
the idea of the individual
the influence of astrology
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A key feature of life for many people under mercantilism was
learning how to hold a sword
increasing access to literature outside the bible
learning to deal with people from different cultures
learning letters and numbers to keep trade records
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The enlightenment featured a fall in the power of monarchy and a rise in the power of
merchant classes
trade unions
democracy
the Catholic church
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A key feature of life for most people under monarchy was
that you were born into a role and you stayed in it
dealing with people from other cultures
stable and predictable
learning to read and write
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Shakespeare lived during the renaissance or "enlightenment" which is the watershed between
the Medieval and modern periods
the modern and postmodern periods
the Paleolithic and Holocene periods
the ancient and modern periods
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Peter Holbrook argues that Shakespeare's characters were unique in that
they were precarious combinations of negative and positive
they always committed crimes
were always somehow tragic
they spoke out loud about their motivations
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Harold Bloom credits Shakespeare for
making drama an intellectual art form
being the first artist to portray thinking and changing
introducing poetry to the masses
inventing what we now think of as the individual human being
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Orson Welles argues that
Shakespeare was the first "director"
Shakespeare's plays are still relevant today
invented many new English words
Shakespeare's famous lines are more important than his plots
