1º Rehearsal: 06/08/2010

Presenting the theme: SHAKESPEARE

Warm up exercicies

Game: Chic Chic Joy Chic Joy Poh Poh

Song: Ding Dong Bell (Nursery Rhyme)

Scene 1

Shakespeare quiz

Go to:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/quiz/newsid_2953000/2953955.stm

Shakespearean insults

The English Shakespeare wrote and spoke is slightly different to the language we use today.
More information:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/showbiz/shakespeare/newsid_3539000/3539032.stm

Shakespeare's words

Shakespeare himself invented around 2,000 new words.

Many of today's well-used phrases are also believed to have been coined by the playwright.

These include:

• flesh and blood
• cruel to be kind
• vanish into thin air
• the game is up
• tower of strength

More information:

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/showbiz/shakespeare/newsid_3539000/3539004.stm

Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre was built in 1598-99 but burnt down in 1613. It was rebuilt in 1614, only to be destroyed 30 years later.

In 1997 it was re-opened about two hundred yards from the original site. It has lime plastered walls and a thatched roof, just like the original.

Unlike today, Shakespeare's audiences often talked throughout the performances, ate noisy food such as nuts, booed, hissed and hurled things at the actors.

More information:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/showbiz/shakespeare/newsid_3538000/3538990.stm

Shakespeare the poet

Shakespeare wrote several poems:

• The Sonnets
• A Lover's Complaint
• The Rape of Lucrece
• Venus and Adonis
• Funeral Elegy by WS
• The Phoenix and the Turtle
• The Passionate Pilgrim

More information:

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/showbiz/shakespeare/newsid_3539000/3539020.stm

Shakespeare the actor

Shakespeare spent his acting career with a group of actors called the Lord Chamberlain's Company.

When James I became King, in 1603, they renamed themselves the King's Company.

The group performed in two theatres near the banks of the river Thames in London - the Globe and Blackfriars.

More information:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/showbiz/shakespeare/newsid_3538000/3538990.stm

Shakespeare the playwright

Shakespeare wrote three types or genres of plays:

• Histories - about the lives of kings
• Comedies - which end with a marriage
• Tragedies - which end with the death of the main character

 More information: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/showbiz/shakespeare/newsid_3538000/3538956.stm

Did Shakespeare really exist?

More information:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/showbiz/shakespeare/newsid_3538000/3538936.stm

Who was Shakespeare?

Many people believe William Shakespeare is the best playwright ever. As well as writing plays, he was also an actor and poet.

But what do we know about the man?

More information:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/showbiz/shakespeare/newsid_3539000/3539058.stm

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Shakespeare's reputation as dramatist and poet actor is unique and he is considered by many to be the greatest playwright of all time, although many of the facts of his life remain mysterious.

More information:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/shakespeare_william.shtml