Transcript Welcome to 1600!

Welcome to
Renaissance
England.
It’s
Time!
It’s time to don
your doublet!
Tighten your trussing!
Get on your galligaskins!
Females, fit on your
farthingales!
Smooth your stomachers!
Remember your ruffs!
Slip on your shoes!
And grab your gloves!
Gentlemen?
Ladies?
Is everybody ready?
We’re going to the theater!
The Globe!
Shakespeare’s
theater is located
just outside of
London, England.
A white
The
groundlings have
It’s
afternoon,
time
for
The
stage
is
a
lower
class
The
men
are
Poetry
higher
class
flagyoung
isis apenny
paid
their
and
areof
the
play
to
start.
profession,
and
no
women
dressing
up
to
take
the
art
than
play
writing
is.
flying.
standing to watch the
will
appear
there.
female
roles.
There’s
a
play.
play today!
The
wealthy
are
in
the
We’re in for a real treat!
upper
decks.
It’s good the plague is
over
and
the
theaters
are
The
play
is
about
to
It’s one of Shakespeare’s
open
again.
begin!
tragedies!
William Shakespeare
What do we know
about Shakespeare?
He
has
a
monument
in
He
moved
He
died
to
in
London
1616.
He
wrote
37
When
His
he
acting
retired
company
he
went
They
had
three
Even
He
His
Later
purchased
He
Queen
vocabulary
His
His
it
married
became
father
hometown
Elizabeth
aborn
was
coat
was
He
was
She
was
26!
Westminster
Abbey
very
successful
back
was
to
called
Stratford-on-Avon
“The
Lord
and
became
an
actor,
children,
including
enjoyed
of
huge:
“The
arms
Anne
a
is
middle
King’s
17,000
his
Stratford-onto
Hathaway
plays!
make
Men.”
class
to
his
in
1564.
though
he’s
buried
in
plays.
and
Chamberlain’s
bought
the
best
Men.”
house
playwright,
and
a
set
of
twins.
family
34,000
when
butcher,
Avon.
upper
words!
he
was
mayor,
class.
18
Stratford-on-Avon.
in town.
theater
owner.
years
& glovemaker.
old.
What do we know
about Shakespeare?
He has had
an amazing
influence on
our English
language.
Have you heard these phrases?
I couldn’t sleep a wink.
 He was dead as a doornail.
 She’s a tower of strength.
 They hoodwinked us.
 I’m green-eyed with jealousy.
 We’d better lie low for awhile.
 Keep a civil tongue in your head.

They are just some of
the many expressions
coined by that master
of language, William
Shakespeare.
Now, let the show
begin!
Sources Used

Fashion pictures from High Fashion in
Shakespeare’s Time by Andrew
Brownfoot, Five Castles Press Ltd., 1992

Shakespeare’s Book of Insults, Insights,
& Infinite Jests, by John W. Seder,
Templegate Publishers, 1984
 The Story of English by Robert McCrum,
et. al., Penguin Books, 1987