What makes William Shakespear so Famous?

His top 5

Hamlet - most famous William Shakespeare play

Othello - second most famous William Shakespeare play

Macbeth - third most famous William Shakespeare play

Romeo and Juliet - forth most famous William Shakespeare play

The Tempest - fifth most famous William Shakespeare play

According to >http://www.william-shakespeare.info/

Shakespeare is part of the English curriculum.

Meaning that you must be taught this in school as part of English, this means even if people don't have a interest in Shakespeare they will still have heard of him in schools they use 'Macbeth', 'Romeo and Juliet', 'The Tempest' and other Shakespeare plays it all depending on your school and teacher to what Shakespeare play you look at but after finishing school you will have as part of your education looked at, at least one of Shakespeare plays and held a group dissections on the play/s.

 

Ideas for Scene from A Middsumers Night Dream

After watching 'were the world mine' to get ideas for how my group may do the scene, the scene we are doing is the scene where as the magic is being used to fix everything that has gone wrong during the play. As the play is very magical with lots of other mithical things going on we can make our scene represent this through using physical theatre.

William Shakespeare scene and monologue

My group scene is from midsummer's night dream written beween 1590-1596
My monologue is from what is believed to be shakespears next play
The merchent of venice written 1596-1598
This means the history of the two plays are the same but the plays are very different i feel this is because if the plots to the plays were too alike then the people would lose intrest in the theatre but both plays still say alot about the time they where written.

Midsummers night dream	The merchant of Venice
·         Fictional Characters. ·         Magical Storyline. ·         Big belief in magic and myths so much that it was also used as medicine.	·         Contains facts of the law. ·         Believed to be based on true events. ·         Penalty’s for laws were becoming less serious but the laws weren’t to be broken.

Monologue Development

- how did i develop my character for my monologue?

1. I researched who my character was and her relationship towards other characters so I could start to understand the meaning of the monologue and how important my monologue is to my character and her role within the play.
2. To further my understandings of the monologue and perform it to a higher ability I experimented performing my monologue using different techniques such as Stanislavsky's emotional memory and while rehearsing taking method acting into consideration.
3. To perform my monologue I used a range of small movements and kept the same voice throughout with clear pronunciation.

Monologue

My monologue is from William Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice'

I pray you, tarry: pause a day or two
Before you hazard; for, in choosing wrong,
I lose your company: therefore forbear awhile.
There's something tells me, but it is not love,
I would not lose you; and you know yourself,
Hate counsels not in such a quality.
But lest you should not understand me well,
And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought,
I would detain you here some month or two
Before you venture for me. I could teach you
How to choose right, but I am then forsworn;
So will I never be: so may you miss me;
But if you do, you'll make me wish a sin,
That I had been forsworn. Beshrew your eyes,
They have o'erlook'd me and divided me;
One half of me is yours, the other half yours,
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours. O, these naughty times
Put bars between the owners and their rights!
And so, though yours, not yours. Prove it so,
Let fortune go to hell for it, not I.
I speak too long; but 'tis to peize the time,
To eke it and to draw it out in length,
To stay you from election.

The different colours are the blocks in witch I devided my monologue to make learning it easier.

My character research

Heiress Portia from ‘The Merchant of Venice’ her story as a princess.

A wealthy princess who lives in the city of Belmont waits for her

prince but the princeses have to choose the right answer from a

multiple of choices. Her preferred prince chooses the correct

answer and there happy.

A party that finishes with news of ships been wrecked and that

her Prince owes a pound of flesh. So she then dresses up as

young law clerk to stand up in court for her prince. She then

saves her prince by pointing out the pound of flesh dose not

intitle the debt collector to blood.

Her prince then inherates half of the debt collectors property for

unsecure contract. They get back to find ships are safe and

live happily ever after celebrating with another party.



The beginning of theatre in England

At the beginning the first plays were those that priests would organise to show stories from the bible this was because the bible was in Latin and wasn’t yet translated to English and helped people that maybe could not read or understand the bible to understand and learn the stories from the bible.
In the Tudor times theatre become more a place to relax and enjoy used as a break from work these then developed into groups of actors that would do the same play in different countries. The most popular plays were the ones that where based around morality and became ‘teaching’ plays.
The growth of theatres in the Tudor time, and especially in the time of Queen Elisabeth, is very much associated with this era. Along with sports and pastimes, theatres provided the workers with some form of break from work.
The government didn’t approve of the messages that theatres were sending as plays such as Robin Hood so in 1572 so the touring groups of actors became banned, another reason for the ban was that people suspected that they might have been spreading the plague throughout the land. Queen Elisabeth still enjoyed theatre so give permission to 4 noblemen to start their own theatre companies and employ actors.
People had very negative views of the actors and the plays "I came to a place on my way to London....I thought I should have found company in the church but the church door was locked. One of the parish came to me and said "Sir, this is a busy day; it is Robin Hood's day". Robin Hood, a traitor and a thief....it is a weeping matter when people prefer Robin Hood to God's word." Bishop Latimer in 1549. And also "The blast of the trumpet will call a thousand people to see a filthy play. An hour's tolling of a bell would only bring a hundred people to a sermon." John Stockwood preaching in 1578. Quotes from http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/theatres_in_tudor_england.htmo
So in tudor time people had become more open to seeing theatre as for entertainment that to get something (learn) from the performances. Plays like this were first performed in yards of lard inns and the first real theatre to be recognised was buit in elisabeths time. In 1577 by the Earl of Leicestr the theatre was an amazing success and this lead to more theatres being built by 1595, 15,000 people a week attended plays in London. Play writing became more seriouse and the ambision of young men being an actor was also increased.