Â· George Peele (1558-96) began writing courtly mythological pastoral plays Â· Robert Greene (1558-92), who founded romantic comedy, wrote plays which combined realistic native backgrounds with an atmosphere of romance, comedies. Â· Thomas Lodge (1557-1625) tended toward euphustic prose romances. His Rosalynde provided Shakespeare with the basis for As You Like It.. Â· Thomas Kyd (155~94), who founded romantic tragedy, wrote plays mingling the themes of love, conspiracy, murder and revenge. Adapted elements of Senecan drama to melodrama. His The Spanish Tragedy (1580s) is the first of the series of revenge plays. In these plays, violence and grossness comes to the stage . One of the characters bites off his tongue and spits it on the stage. And we think Quentin Tarantino movies are wild! Independent Practice: The students will need time to process all of the information that they have been given today and in the class periods preceding this to put together their time lines. They will do so on their own and the teacher will monitor the classroom, asking questions, clarifying and helping where needs be. Assessment Closure and Assessment: The instructor will check the progress of their timelines, asking individual questions about the information the students have received up to this point and assign the homework specified below. We will now be moving on from the reformation into the Elizabethan and Jacobean age of theatre. Homework: The students need to choose one Shakespeare character from the list and do a bit of research. They need to find out about the play that this character is from and write a brief summary about the play (which they can easily find online) and a description of the character. They will be presenting their findings before the class on Wednesday. The list of both major and minor Shakespeare characters is included below, but is not by any means comprehensive. 5: Finishing up the reformation and movin’ on down to Shakespeare Objective The students will demonstrate understanding of Shakespeare by working on a scene from one of his plays. Materials Needed see lesson Related Documents Shakespeare Dialogue Lesson Directions Anticipatory Set/Hook Film Clip: Tricking Beatrice and Benedick form Much Ado Nothing. Instruction Instruction: We will need to finish the Reformation and University Wits before moving onto the next section of theatre history. Elizabethan Theatre and Shakespeare
Â· George Peele (1558-96) began writing courtly mythological pastoral plays Â· Robert Greene (1558-92), who founded romantic comedy, wrote plays which combined realistic native backgrounds with an atmosphere of romance, comedies. Â· Thomas Lodge (1557-1625) tended toward euphustic prose romances. His Rosalynde provided Shakespeare with the basis for As You Like It.. Â· Thomas Kyd (155~94), who founded romantic tragedy, wrote plays mingling the themes of love, conspiracy, murder and revenge. Adapted elements of Senecan drama to melodrama. His The Spanish Tragedy (1580s) is the first of the series of revenge plays. In these plays, violence and grossness comes to the stage . One of the characters bites off his tongue and spits it on the stage. And we think Quentin Tarantino movies are wild! Independent Practice: The students will need time to process all of the information that they have been given today and in the class periods preceding this to put together their time lines. They will do so on their own and the teacher will monitor the classroom, asking questions, clarifying and helping where needs be. Assessment Closure and Assessment: The instructor will check the progress of their timelines, asking individual questions about the information the students have received up to this point and assign the homework specified below. We will now be moving on from the reformation into the Elizabethan and Jacobean age of theatre. Homework: The students need to choose one Shakespeare character from the list and do a bit of research. They need to find out about the play that this character is from and write a brief summary about the play (which they can easily find online) and a description of the character. They will be presenting their findings before the class on Wednesday. The list of both major and minor Shakespeare characters is included below, but is not by any means comprehensive. 5: Finishing up the reformation and movin’ on down to Shakespeare Objective The students will demonstrate understanding of Shakespeare by working on a scene from one of his plays. Materials Needed see lesson Related Documents Shakespeare Dialogue Lesson Directions Anticipatory Set/Hook Film Clip: Tricking Beatrice and Benedick form Much Ado Nothing. Instruction Instruction: We will need to finish the Reformation and University Wits before moving onto the next section of theatre history. Elizabethan Theatre and Shakespeare
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