Learning target: how might Shakespeare's life and opportunities been impacted because of a patriarchal society?
In class: 1) collecting semi-colon material and reviewing the responses.
2) review of this week's vocabulary
There will be two assessments tomorrow: "A Room of One's Own" vocabulary and semi-colons
3) Take out the graphic organizer for Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own".
Listen to a reading from "Be that it may....palace of the queen"
Reread independently, using the text as a source to fill in the graphic organizer. (class handout / copy below)
4) Think about the following for a quick write tomorrow: how might Shakespeare's life and opportunities been impacted because of a patriarchal society?
Be that as it may, I could not help thinking, as I looked at the works
of Shakespeare on the shelf, that the bishop was right at least in this;
it would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to
have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.Let me
imagine, since facts are so hard to come by, what would have happened
had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith, let us
say. Shakespeare himself went, very probably,--his mother was an
heiress--to the grammar school, where he may have learnt Latin--Ovid,
Virgil and Horace--and the elements of grammar and logic. He was, it is
well known, a wild boy who poached rabbits, perhaps shot a deer, and
had, rather sooner than he should have done, to marry a woman in the
neighbourhood, who bore him a child rather quicker than was right. That
escapade sent him to seek his fortune in London. He had, it seemed, a
taste for the theatre; he began by holding horses at the stage door.
Very soon he got work in the theatre, became a successful actor, and
lived at the hub of the universe, meeting everybody, knowing everybody,
practicing his art on the boards, exercising his wits in the streets,
and even getting access to the palace of the queen.
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Shakespeare’s
life and opportunities
work
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family
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education
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relationships
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entertainment
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