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=Monday, April 23= = = =Tuesday, April 24= = = =Wednesday, April 25= = = =Thursday, April 26= > Comedy of ideas: > Comedy of Manners: > Farce: > > Low Comedy: > Theater of the Absurd: (not Shakespeare! 20th C.) > -- = = =Friday, April 27=
 * comma
 * go over Shakespeare language sheet
 * Shakespeare resources online
 * []
 * points for reading aloud!
 * start reading play
 * Shakespeare vocab warm-up
 * =====1. whither - to where?=====
 * =====Whither goest thou? Whither goeth she?=====
 * 2. thither - to there
 * She goeth thither to buy some lunch.
 * =====3. hither - to here=====
 * He cometh hither to help me with homework.
 * =====4. would - wish=====
 * =====I would thou hadst done thy reading last night!=====
 * Go over Shakespeare language sheet
 * Read play
 * Homework: Read to the end of Act II
 * Tomorrow: Quiz on Acts I & II
 * Tomorrow: registration for next year's classes
 * vocab warm-up
 * =====5. whence - from where?=====
 * =====6. thence - from there=====
 * =====7. hence - from here=====
 * =====8. anon - soon=====
 * notes on types of comedy
 * forecasting for next year's classes
 * vocab warm-up
 * =====9. ere - before=====
 * ====="That will be ere the set of sun" (Macbeth)=====
 * =====10. blank verse - unrhymed iambic pentameter=====
 * 11. soliloquy - a speech in which a character reveals his or her thoughts to the audience
 * but not to the other characters,
 * speaking as though to himself
 * =====12. aside - a remark made literally to the side;=====
 * =====either to the audience or another character,=====
 * =====but not to all characters on the stage=====
 * Globe theater
 * Types of comedy
 * Characters argue about ideas
 * use wit and clever language to mock
 * use satire to laugh at what they or others value: family, friends, religion, politics, marriage, etc.
 * Verbal wit, skillful use of language to make ordinary situations humorous
 * Amorous intrigues among the upper classes, usually making fun of those classes
 * “Drawing room” comedy – requires an awareness of social rules in that setting
 * Plot is full of coincidences, mis-timings, misunderstandings, mistaken identities
 * Characters are puppets of fate
 * Loss of identity because of fate or an accident
 * Slapstick
 * Pratfalls, dirty gestures, jokes about bodily functions, sex, and physical deformities
 * Plays that make us uncomfortable, uneasy about whether there is any meaning to existence
 * “Theatrical” rather than realistic, often impossible characters in impossible situations
 * Serious, but intermittently comic, esp. satiric
 * Basic themes include:
 * loneliness in a world without God
 * inability to communicate
 * dehumanization of individuals in society
 * the meaninglessness of life
 * Elizabethan world assumed the existence of a Great Chain of Being
 * As You Like It scorecard!
 * read play
 * Homework: Read through Act III, scene iii