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Zusammenfassung zur mündlichen Abiturprüfung Bayern Thema: Shakespeare
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THE POWER OF WORDS – FROM SHAKESPEARE TO TODAYLEAD-IN
Shakespearean language – modern English
• words that no longer exist (nither, yonder, aye, nay)
• words newly formed for onomatopoelic reason (hurly-burly, flibbertigibbet)
• pronouns like thou, thee, ye alongside with you
• different word order “Thou lik’dst not that!” (no compulsory do/did)
• archonic exclamations: alackaday, hearkan
• extensive greetings and forms of address (good wenches and fine lads)
WORDS IN CONTEXT: THE POWER OF THE SPOKEN
WORD
The importance of the spoken word in Shakespeare’s time
only most necessary props, body language and gestures → visual aspect not so important for
overall dramatic impression; most important element: language, the words spoken by the
actors; show Shakespeare’s mastery of language, as well as his enjoyment at creating these
scenes
Shakespeare’s themes and language in our time
English language has developed considerably, themes of his plays have remained relevant up
to this day → wealth of adaptations of the plays both in writing and in films
Poetry as drama
cycle of 154 sonnets deals in different ways with love, passing of time and death
SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS
• Shakespeare wrote a cycle of 154 sonnets
• first published in 1609 as a whole
• 1 to 126 are supposedly addressed to a young man
• 127-154 are addressed to “a dark lady”
• Shakespeare’s sonnets deal with the real world of love, including physical desire,
jealousy, betrayal, beauty and youth
• sonnet is mad up quatrain and rhyming couplet (→ 14 lines):
• rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg
• the metre: iambic pentameter (10 syllables)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
L ERNZIRKEL - S HAKESPEARE ’ S LIFE AND WORK
year event (key words) background information
1564 birth and early years born in Stratford-upon-Avon (23.04.)
father: John Shakespeare (glover & leather merchant)
mother: Mary Arden
education: grammar school in Stratford: Latin & Greek,
free school → solid education
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