Y7 Performing Arts - Knowledge Organiser 3 Key Shakespeare Introduction Terminology Mat Key facts and key words Full Name: William Shakespeare D.O.B: April 1564 The Globe Theatre Place of birth: Stratford-upon-Avon D.O.D: 23 April 1616 Shakespeare’s plays were performed at the Globe Theatre. Theatre Roots: The King’s Men, formally known as The Lord This was a theatre like no other, it was an open air theatre, Chamberlain’s Men. with a large stage. Elizabethan Theatre Iambic Pentameter Groundlings Scene Originally built: 1599 —however in 1613, during Shake- Traveling Theatre Stage Direction Audience Genre speare’s play Henry VIII, a cannon set fire to the straw in the Audience Appreciation Shakespeare Playwright Act roof and it burnt down. It was quickly rebuilt the year after. Layout: The stage configuration is the stage layout and type of stage the play is performed on. The Globe theatre was a Genre Proscenium Arch stage. Performances: A flag was raised to All Shakespearean plays fall into one of 3 genres; Comedy, show a play was about to begin. Plays began at 2 in the after- Tragedy and history. Some may also have a romantic element. noon to ensure it was still light for the performance. Comedy History Tragedy All’s well that ends well Henry IV Anthony and Cleopatra Actors: In Shakespeare's time, there were no women actors. Women's parts were played by boys. For a time, child actors As you Like it Henry V Coriolanus Comedy of Errors Cymbeline were more popular than grown-actors. Love’s Labour’s Lost Henry VI Hamlet Measure for Measure Henry V111 Julius Caesar Special effects: Plays had exciting special effects. There were Merchant of Venice King Lear ghosts, witches, loud bangs, flames and smoke, drums, and Merry Wives of Windsor King John Macbeth even cannons. Midsummer Night’s Dream Pericles Othello Much Ado About Nothing Romeo and Juliet Richard II Motto: “Totus mundus agit histrionem” Taming of the Shrew Timon of Athens “The whole world is a playhouse”. The Tempest Richard III Titus Andronicus Shakespeare reworded it for the play Twelfth Night ‘As You Like It Into’, Two Gentlemen of Verona “All the world is a stage”. Winter’s Tale .