Motifs
"The Prince and Count
Claudio... were thus much overheard by a man of mine: the Prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my niece your daughter and meant to acknowledge it
this night in a dance"
What is noting?
What is Act 1 Scene 3?
Shakespeare was born in this century
What is the 16th century?
“Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that."
Who is Benedick?
A dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion
What is a comedy?
"And there shall appear such seeming truth of Hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall be called assurance and all the preparation overthrown."
What is appearance vs reality?
What is Act 4 Scene 1?
Shakespeare joined this troupe of writers in the 1590s that shares the name of these people that could not put Humpty-Dumpty back together again (neither could the horses)
What are The Kings Men?
“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”
Who is Don John?
A speech in a play that the character speaks to himself or herself or to the people watching rather than to the other characters
What is a soliloquy?
Claudio: "We have been up and down to seek thee; for we are high-proof melancholy and would fain have it beaten away. Wilt thou use thy wit?
Benedick: "It is in my scabbard. Shall I draw it?"
What is war/wit?
Benedick hides in the arbor, noting the conversation between Don Pedro, Claudio, and Leonato as they swear Beatrice is in love with him.
What is Act 2 Scene 3?
The English that Shakespeare spoke, distinct from others such as Middle English and Early English, is referred to as this
What is Modern English?
"Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have
belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.”
Who is Dogberry?
A secondary character whose situation often parallels that of the main character while his behavior or response or character contrasts with that of the main character, throwing light on that particular character’s specific temperament
What is a foil?
"Out on thee! Seeming! I will write against it.
You seem to me as Dian in her orb,
As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown;
But you are more intemperate in your blood
Than Venus, or those pamper'd animals
That rage in savage sensuality."
What is appearance vs reality?
The main characters attend a masquerade ball, dancing in and out of the scene while Beatrice plays upon Benedick's naivety.
What is Act 2 Scene 1?
The religious upheaval that preceded Queen Elizabeth's reign and continued throughout was known as this
What is the Reformation?
“O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace."
Who is Beatrice?
The mistaken use of an incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound, resulting in a nonsensical, sometimes humorous utterance
What is malapropism?
"Tush, fear not, man; we'll tip thy horns with gold
And all Europa shall rejoice at thee,
As once Europa did at lusty Jove,
When he would play the noble beast in love."
What is marriage/shame?
Dogberry and Verges prepare the watchmen for their duty, asking them to perform ridiculous tasks as inarticulately as possible.
What is Act 3 Scene 3?
Shakespeare and companions tore down their local theatre and rebuilt it across the Thames River following a dispute with the landlord, renaming it this
What is The Globe Theatre?
“Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever”
Who is Balthasar?
A discrepancy between appearance and reality; usually involves a discrepancy between a character’s perception and what readers know to be true; the readers possess some material information that the character lacks, and it is the character’s imperfect information that motivates or explains his or her discordant response.
What is situational irony?