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| What did it cost to see a shakespearean play? |
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| ushers had to constantly ask someone to watch the gate while they ran to the office to drop off a money box and get a new one and run back because money boxes were so small and pennies so huge |
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| what food was served in the theater? |
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| oranges (a dessert), meat pies (meal), tomatoes (to throw). The idea of having refreshments served in theaters came from shakespears' theater to increase the admission price which included food |
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| sat through 15 min of play, and if you weren't entertained you would wait until the worst actors soliloquy and try to throw a tomato as close as possible to his mouth. This was not a worry for the actors because the people close enough to hit them with tomatoes were the groundlings who were too poor to buy tomatoes. |
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| were low status people with no education who would pay one penny for standing room only in the very front close to the stage. when they got excited they would drool over the stage and actors were afraid they might slip and fall on the spit. "break a leg" comes from this, and is better to say than "good luck" |
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| opening scene of every shakespearean play |
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| a. supernatural creatures b. violence c. teenage sex |
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| key to understanding tragedy |
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| if at the beginning of the play someone from high society ends up in low society and the humpty dumpty analogy came from the idea that every major character puts themself in an impossible position with the only option being going down. |
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| shakespear's astonishing accomplishments |
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| 1. he was a businessman 2. he was a social climber 3. popular entertainer 4. gentleman landowner (ultimate goal) astonishing because he was such a artistic minded person and also very business and logical minded person |
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| the tarquin kings were sextus and his father. Sextus raped Lucretia and before she committed suicide she told her husband who was high in status. He told government officials and led a revolt against them. As the public found out about this they supported the revolt and ran the kings out of Rome. |
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| made up of Julius, Crassus, and Pompey. When Crassus died, it fell apart. Julius became sole leader when he and Pompey went to war over power. Julius searched for Pompey but didn't find him. But Julius did find Pompey's sons and killed them...defeating Pompey. |
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| I came, I saw, I conquered...Julius said this after killing Pompey's sons. |
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| Julius had an affair with Cleopatra because she was so beautiful. She wanted an affair with Julius because of his power. When Julius was assassinated, she had an affair with Mark Antony, because he was in power. |
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| made up of Mark Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus. Lepidus retired. Mark Antony fell in love with Cleopatra, which was viewed as treason by Octavian, so he attacked Mark Antony. When Mark Antony and Cleopatra were defeated, they committed suicide which ended the second triumvirate. |
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