“All the World’s a stage…”

“All the World’s a stage…”

Slide 1:

(Lute music sounds 15 - 16 century. N. Nigvino - Reachercar)

Sonnet 91

Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,

Some in their wealth, some in their bodies’ force;

Some in their garments, though new- fangled ill;

Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse;

And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure

Wherein it finds a joy above the rest.

But these particulars are not my measure;

All these I better in one general best.

Thy love is better than high birth to me,

Richer than wealth, prouder than garments’ cost,

Of more delight than hawks or horses be,

And having thee, of all men’s pride I boast;

Wretched in this alone, that thou mayst take

All this away, and me most wretched make.

Slide 2:

Hello everyone! The last half of the 16 and the beginning of the 17 centuries are known as the Golden Age of English literature. It was the time of the English Renaissance and it is even called “The Age of Shakespeare”.

Our project work is dedicated to one of the greatest and the most famous English writer and probably, the greatest playwright who has ever lived, William Shakespeare. We are going to present the passport of our project. 

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The title оf the project is:  All the world's a stage,

      And all the men and women  merely players…

The customers are our English teachers and the project managers are  Sergey Babanenkov, Galina Kazak , Oksana Doycheva

 We began with a «Brain Storming"? It was a hard work on the project planning in October during our English Week.

     The finishing action will be “All the world’s a stage…”, a meeting devoted to the Shakespeare’s birthday on the 23^rd of  April, 2014

    The main aims are to widen our knowledge of Shakespeare's life and to improve our English             

      We have some subsidiary aims such as improvement of the pupils’ communicative skills, introducing and practicing new vocabulary, promoting interest in the culture

      What isn’t an aim:    participation of all the senior pupils in the project.                                                                                                                                  

     Budget. We think that 300 grivnyas will be enough to sew the costumes, to buy all necessary things.

     What are the peculiarities of our project? We think that executing different social roles, everyone can realize himself.

     It’s important to see the risks. Why wouldn’t be our project finished?  “To be or not to be” isn’t a question for us. Our project will be and it will be finished by the 23^rd of  April, by the Shakespeare’s birthday. Because the project team is large and friendly – the pupils of the 9^th, 10^th and 11^th forms and our assistants are our teachers and the great Internet.

 Slide 4: Seven groups are working on the project now (read from the slide)

Slide 5: Mysterious Origins

Our group worked on the biography of Shakespeare. We worked hard and found many interesting even mysterious facts.  

Known throughout the world, the works of William Shakespeare have been performed in countless hamlets, villages, cities and metropolises for more than 400 years. And yet, the personal history of William Shakespeare is somewhat a mystery. There are two primary sources that provide historians with a basic outline of his life. One source is his work—the plays, poems and sonnets—and the other is official documentation such as church and court records. However, these only provide brief sketches of specific events in his life and provide little on the person who experienced those events.

But nevertheless we gathered the material and now we are going to present the information that you’ve probably not come across before.

Slide 6: Early Life

Though no birth records exist, church records indicate that a William Shakespeare was baptized at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564. From this, it is believed he was born on or near April 23, 1564, and this is the date scholars acknowledge as William Shakespeare's birthday.

 Slide 7: King James Bible

In the King James Bible the 46th word of Psalm 46 is ‘shake’ and the 46th word from the end of the same Psalm is ‘spear’. Some people think that it was a hidden birthday message to the Bard, as the King James Bible was published in 1611 – the year of Shakespeare’s 46th birthday.

Slide 8: Spelling of Name

There are more than 80 variations recorded for the spelling of Shakespeare’s name.   But there are no records ever having spelt it “William Shakespeare”, as we know him today.

 Slide 9: Quotable Shakespeare

According to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Shakespeare wrote close to a tenth of the most quoted lines ever written or spoken English. Moreover, according to the Literature Encyclopedia, Shakespeare is the second most quoted English writer after the writers of the Bible.

Slide 10: Uranus’ Satellites are named after Shakespearean Characters

The moons of Uranus were originally named in 1852 after magical spirits from English literature. The International Astronomy Union subsequently developed the convention to name all further moons of Uranus (of which there are 27) after characters in Shakespeare’s plays or Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock.

Slide 11: Family Coat of Arms

Sometime after his unsuccessful application to become a gentleman, Shakespeare took his father to the College of Arms to secure their own Shakespeare family crest. The crest was a yellow spear on a yellow shield, with the Latin inscription “Non Sans Droict”, or “Not without Right”.

Slide 12: Publishing the Plays

Shakespeare never actually published any of his plays. They are known today only because two of his fellow actors – John Hemminge and Henry Condell – recorded and published 36 plays posthumously under the name ‘The First Folio’, which is the source of all Shakespeare books published.

Slide 13: Shakespeare was buried in the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon. The words on his tomb say:  

“Good friend, for Jesus sake forbear

To dig the dust enclosed here.

Blest be the man that spares these stones

And curst be he that moves my bones”.

«Друг, ради господа не рой

Останков, взятых сей землёй.

Не тронувший - блажен в веках,

И проклят – тронувший мой прах».

It was written by an unknown poet, but these lines give Shakespeare’s own request. That is why his body was left at Stratford and was not taken to Westminster Abbey where the tombs of many famous English writers and poets are found.

You have just heard only 8 facts from the Shakespeare’s life. We collected much more, 100.

But at the moment we’d like to tell about his married life.

Lute music sounds

(dramatization of Shakespeare's acquaintance with Anna) 

Slide 14: Married Life

William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway on November 28, 1582,   in Canterbury Province. Hathaway was from   a small village a mile west of Stratford. William was 18 and Anne was 26. Their first child, a daughter they named Susanna, was born on May 26, 1583. Two years later, on February 2, 1585, twins Hamnet and Judith were born.

Slide 15: After the birth of the twins, there are seven years of William Shakespeare's life where no records exist.

Scholars call this period the "lost years," and there is wide speculation on what he was doing during this period. One theory is that he might have gone into hiding for poaching game from the local landlord, Sir Thomas Lucy. Another possibility is that he might have been working as an assistant schoolmaster in Lancashire. It is generally believed he arrived in London in the mid- to late 1580s and may have found work as a horse attendant at some of London's finer theaters, a scenario updated centuries later by the countless aspiring actors and playwrights in Hollywood and Broadway.

Melody Sounds (Staging of Shakespeare's Leaving)

Slide 16:

The Globe Theatre

 Our group worked on the information about the Globe Theatre of Shakespeare. All information is in this folder. But today we’ll mention about 16 the most interesting of them.

Slide 17:

Globe Theatre Fact 1

The Globe Theatre was built in 1599 in Southward on the south bank of London’s River Thames by Richard Burbage.

Globe Theatre Fact 2

The timber for The Globe Theatre was actually reused wood from “The Theatre” – an earlier theatre owned by Richard Burbage’s father.

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Globe Theatre Fact 3

The Globe was built as a large, round, open air theatre. There was a roof around the circumference which covered the seating area, leaving the theatre looking like a doughnut from above.

Globe Theatre Fact 4

The Globe had three stories of seating and was able to hold up to 3,000 spectators in its 100 foot diameter.

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 Globe Theatre Fact 5

At the base of the stage was an area called “the pit” which held “the groundlings” – people who paid just a penny to stand and watch a performance.

Globe Theatre Fact 6

Part of the stage was called the “apron stage” – a rectangular platform that thrust out amongst the audience into the pit.

Globe Theatre Fact 7

William Shakespeare was a shareholder who owned 12.5% of The Globe Theatre. As a young writer Shakespeare bought shares in the theatre and benefited financially as his popularity grew.

Globe Theatre Fact 8

Colour coded flags were used outside the theatre to advertise the type of play to be performed – a red flag fora history play, white for a comedy play and black for atragedy play.

Slide 20: Globe Theatre Fact 9

A crest above the main entrance to The Globe Theatre was inscribed with motto “Totus mundus agit histrionem” – Latin for “The whole world is a playhouse”.

Globe Theatre Fact 10

There were no actresses performing at The Globe Theatre – or any other theatre at that time. Female roles were played by young boys as theatre stages were considered too risque a place for ladies.

Slide 21: Globe Theatre Fact 11

The Globe Theatre burnt down in 1613 when a special effect on stage went wrong. A cannon used for a performance of Henry VIII set light to the thatched roof and the fire quickly spread, reportedly taking less than two hours to burn down completely.

Globe Theatre Fact 12

According to one of the few surviving documents of the event, no one was hurt when The Globe Theatre burned down – except for a man whose burning trousers were put out with a bottle of beer!

Globe Theatre Fact 13

After burning down in 1613 The Globe Theatre was rebuilt on the same spot in 1614.

Globe Theatre Fact 14

The Puritans brought an end to The Globe Theatre in 1642 with an order suppressing all stage plays. In 1644 The Globe Theatre was turned into tenement housing, ending 85 years of turbulent history.

lide 22: Globe Theatre Fact 15

The Globe was generally considered to be a circular building, however when a small part of the theatre’s foundations were uncovered the late 1980’s it seems that the building was actually a polygon of 20 sides.

Globe Theatre Fact 16

In 1997 a third version and faithful reconstruction of The Globe Theatre was built as “Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre”, close to the original site in Southward

Thanks for your attention and now the next group will  aquaint you with Shakespeare as an author.

Slide 23: Shakespeare’s Works

  Good morning everybody. As you know Shakespeare is the author of 2 poems, 37 plays and 154 sonnets. His creative work is divided into three periods. The first was marked by optimism.  That time he wrote his 9 brilliant comedies, historical chronicles, dramas and 2 early tragedies “Romeo and Juliet” and “Julius Caesar”. 

Slide 24: Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two young   lovers.  Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.

Slide 25: Numerous times Romeo and Juliet has been adapted for stage, film, musical and opera.   In the 20th century the play has been adapted in many versions. We watched some of them and the version of 1936 seemed us the most interesting one.

(Video clip of Romeo and Juliet)

Slide 26: The main works written by Shakespeare during the second period were his great tragedies.  And now, listen to the famous Hamlet’s  monologue  “ To be or not to be”.

To be, or not to be, – that is the question:

Whether ‘ tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them? – To die, – to sleep, –

No more…

And now listen to Boris Pasternak's Russian translation performed by  Smoktunovsky

(Russian translation by Boris Pasternak performed by Smoktunovsky)

Slide 27: Shakespeare’s  sonnets.

 Shakespeare wrote not only plays but sonnets too.  They are very beautiful and very lyrical both in English and in Russian.

(Lute music sounds)

Slide 28: Sonnet 87

Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing,

And like enough thou know’st thy estimate.

The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing;

My bonds in thee are all determinate.

For how do I hold thee but by thy granting,

And for that riches where is my deserving?

The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting,

And so my patent back again is swerving.

Thyself thou gav’st, thy own worth then not knowing,

Or me, to whom thou gav’st it, else mistaking;

So thy great gift, upon misprision growing,

Comes home again, on better judgment making.

      Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter:

  In sleep a king, but waking no such matter.

 Translation by S. Marshak

Прощай! Тебя удерживать не смею.
Я дорого ценю любовь твою.
Мне не по - средствам то, чем я владею,
И я залог покорно отдаю.
Я, как подарком, пользуюсь любовью.
Заслугами не куплена она.
И значит, добровольное условье
По прихоти нарушить ты вольна.

Дарила ты, цены не зная кладу
Или не зная, может быть, меня.
И не по праву взятую награду
Я сохранял до нынешнего дня.
Был королем я только в сновиденье.
Меня лишило трона пробужденье.

Slide 29: The English (or Shakespearian) Sonnet:

The English sonnet (or Shakespearian) has the simplest and most flexible pattern of all sonnets, consisting of 3 quatrains of alternating rhyme and a couplet:

a b a b      c d c d      e f e f      g g 

Each quatrain develops a specific idea, but one closely related to the ideas in the other quatrains.

  Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 sonnets, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality, first published in a 1609 quarto entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS

The sonnets include a dedication to one "Mr. W.H.". The identity of this person remains a mystery and, since the 19th century, has provoked a great deal of speculation. You can see the Dedication page from The Sonnets

(Lute music sounds)

Slide 30: Sonnet 90

Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;

Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross,

Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow,

And do not drop in for an after-loss:

Ah, do not, when my heart hath 'scoped this sorrow,

Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe;

Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,

To linger out a purposed overthrow.

If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,

When other petty griefs have done their spite

But in the onset come; so shall I taste

At first the very worst of fortune's might,

And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,

Compared with loss of thee will not seem so.

We were surprised that the song which is sung by  Alla Pugacheva is Shakespeare's sonnet in Marshak's  interpretation

 (demonstration of the clip by A. Pugacheva)

Slide 31: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun,

Coral is far more red, than her lips red,

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun:

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head:

I have seen roses damasked, red and white,

But no such roses see I in her cheeks,

And in some perfumes is there more delight,

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know,

That music hath a far more pleasing sound:

I grant I never saw a goddess go,

My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.

And yet by heaven I think my love as rare,

As any she belied with false compare.

Slide 32: Today we won't stop on the cinema and theatrical performances on Shakespeare’s works but we suggest watching shots from the movie “Shakespeare in Love”, demonstrating some pages from his rich and beautiful life.

It is only the last part of two hours interesting and fascinating movie. We advise you to watch it.

 (movie screening)

Dear guests, we have to tell that our work on the project isn't finished. We’ll work till March  and we have many interesting ideas to realize. We invite you to our school to celebrate the 400^th Shakespeare’s anniversary.

But now, our project team thanks you for your attention.

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