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William Shakespeare – the greatest English poet and dramatist of Renaissance

Objectives: *to acquaint pupils with the peculiarities of Renaissance period in English literature, with biography and works of Shakespeare;

*to develop speaking, guessing skills, to form cognitive activity;

*to bring up respect to literature and reading, to broad pupils’ outlook.

Equipment: Shakespeare’s portrait, documentary film about his life and work, projector, handouts.

Epigraphs: * He was not the age, but for all time (Benjamin Johnson).

* He was the greatest of the greatest, the genius among geniuses, born in the heart of England.

Procedure:

І. ORGANIZATION

ІІ. MOTIVATION

(Pupil is reading the poem)

LOVE

I feel it in my lungs

I feel it in my toes

The love that’s all around me,

And so that feeling grows.

It’s written on the wind,

It’s everywhere I go.

So if you really love me,

Come on and let it slow.

And now

I love you,

I always will

My mind’s made up by the way

That I feel –

There’s no beginning

There’ll be no end to love.

 

ІІІ. MAIN PART

Teacher: Good afternoon, dear children! Today our arrangement is devoted to the great author of all time, to William Shakespeare, whose literary works are known everywhere in the world,  whose plays, written for a small theatre in the late 16^th century are played on the biggest scenes of all countries nowadays.  “Shakespeare was not of an age, but for all time”. Let’s make sure of that.

Leader. Dear friends, today we will become absorbed in Shakespeare’s world… You have already tried to do this at home, making your presentations. Let’s look and listen.

Topics:

1. William Shakespeare’s place of birth is Stratford-on-Avon. His childhood and youth.

2. William Shakespeare becomes an actor. Theatre in the day of Shakespeare.

3. Shakespeare made fuller use of English language. William Shakespeare’s creative work.

Pupil 1. Stratford is a very interesting town in the central part of England. Around Stratford, there are beautiful forest, green fields and a quiet little river – the Avon.

 Stratford was Shakespeare’s birthplace, a small house in the centre of the town with a small room in it. This is a very small room where Shakespeare was born. In one of the rooms, there is a little wooden desk, just the very desk that Shakespeare sat at when he went to study at school in Stratford. And it was the garden behind the house that drew our attention. There are planted all the flowers and trees that are mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays.

 He was born on April 23, 1564. His mother, Mary Arden, was a daughter of farmer. His father, John, was a glover who had an office in Stratford. He got his education at the Grammar School. It was a difficult place at that time. The pupils had to be at school at six in the morning in the warm seasons and an hour later in winter. School days were long, and only during the holidays William could have a rest. He went to the woods and to the river Avon.

 But the best things of all in Will’s life were groups of actors who visited Stratford from time to time.  He watched them and knew that he wanted to be an actor.

 William could read and translate Latin books. He was fond of English folk songs and ballads.

Pupil 2. Some time later William’s father became poor and William had to go to London and begin to work. There is a story that Shakespeare’s first work in London was holding rich men’s horses at the theatre door. But nobody can say whether this story is true.

 Later Shakespeare became an actor and a member of one of the big acting companies. Soon he began to write plays for this company and in few years became a well-known author.

 I am sure it will be of some interest for you to know what the theatre in the days of Shakespeare looked like. It did not look like our modern theatres. It was a high round building without any roof except over the stage. In winter, the theatres were closed. As there was no artificial light in those days, the plays took place in daytime, between one and three o’clock in the afternoon. A flag was put up above the building to show to everybody that a play was going on at the theatre.

 Then there was no scenery and the public was informed where the action was taking place by a paper put up in such a way that the people could easily  read it. There it was written: Field, Sea cost, Forest. Sometimes the actors told the public where they were.

 In those days women were not allowed to work in theatres. All the roles of girls and women were acted by boys. A boy first played the role of women and when he grew up he started acting men’s parts at the same theatre.

 The actors were often partners in the theatre business. Shakespeare was one of the partners in the theatre where he acted and for which he wrote his dramas. It was the famous Globe.

Pupil 3. Every Englishman knows more or less the works of his country’s greatest poet. Words and phrases from Shakespeare’s writing have become part of English language and are used by all.

 Shakespeare made fuller use of the English language than any other writer did. There is no better way for a foreigner or an Englishman to understand the richness of the English language than by studying how Shakespeare used it.

 The last half of the 16^th century and the beginning of the 17^th century are called the age of Shakespeare.

 He wrote 37 plays. Among them are tragedies such as Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, comedies such as All’s Well That Ends Well, The Twelfth Night, historical dramas such as Henry ІV, Richard ІІІ. Great writer showed all the contrasts of his time in his works. He showed the differences between the life of rich and poor people. Life itself was shown in his plays…

 

PUPIL (Author). In the town of Verona in Italy, there were two rich families, the Capulets and the Montagues. There was an old quarrel between those two families and  when a Capulet met a Montague, they always began to fight. There was a daughter named Juliet in the Capulet family, who was fourteen years old at the time of the story, and a son Romeo in the Montague family, who was sixteen.

 Juliet and Romeo fell in love with each other and love changed them. They became wiser and more beautiful. But their love was tragic and Romeo and Juliet died.

Staging of the part  of the tragedy

J u l i e t. Romeo!

R o m e o. My dear!

J u l i e t. At what o’clock tomorrow shall I send to thee?

R o m e o. At hour of nine.

J u l i e t. I will not fail; ‘tis twenty years till then. I have forgot why did I call thee back.

R o m e o. Let me stand here till thou remember it.

J u l i e t. I shall forget, to have thee still stand there, remembering how I love your company.

R o m e o. And I’ll stay, to have thee still forget, forgetting any other home but this.

J u l i e t.

Tis almost morning;

I would gave thee gone;

And yet no further than a wanton’s bird

Who lets it hope a little from her hand

Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gives,

And with a silk thread plucks it back again,

So loving-jealous of his liberty.

R o m e o. I would I were thy bird.

J u l i e t.

Sweet, so would I:

Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.

Good-night, good-night parting

In such sweet sorrow

That I shall say good-night till it be tomorrow.

R o m e o.

Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!

Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest!

Hence will I to my ghostly father’s cell,

His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell.

 

Author. One piece of the greatest love story has just been presented to us. But today we also have an opportunity to communicate with Mr. Shakespeare! Our imaginary time machine and knowledge of English let us get this present!

P. Mr. Shakespeare, we have acquainted with your life, but we’d like to listen to some information from you. Can you tell us about your childhood and early years?

 - Well, I was born on the 23^rd of April 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon. Stratford was a little town in the centre of England. In my childhood it was a market town with beautiful streets and gothic buildings.

I remember the Avon which flows between its green banks through Stratford. I studied at grammar school from 7 to 13 years of age. Only Latin and English were taught at that time.

P. Where did you get further education?

- Nowhere. My grammar school was the only school in my life.

P. Was your father a rich man?

- He wasn’t poor. He was a glover and we had a small shop in our house. But in 1577 my father had some problems with his business and I was taken from school.

P. What did you like to do at that time?

- My greatest love was literature and plays of travelling performers.

P. Tell us about your family. Have you been married?

- I wasn’t happy with Ann Hathaway. I was 18, she was 26. We were different. We had three children. But when I was 21, I left for London.

P. I’ve read that you had written 32 plays, 2 poems and 154 sonnets. Is it true?

- Yes, I wrote them expressing my feelings, moods, ideas, views.

P. And what about your legendary Globe?

- It was like a child for me. A little wooden theatre. I devoted my talent to it. What do you know about my Globe?

P. Last year at our English lesson we read a story about the Globe. It was interesting to know that it was with open roof, without scenery and lights, with poor decorations. Hard to believe.

- But it’s true. Look at the pictures. You can see wooden walls, the stage, the open roof. This theatre is rebuilt, but it is a copy of my original Globe.

P. And I know that it was possible to move, eat and even throw fruit at bad actors at that time.

- Yes, it was. Even more, the audience could be involved into the play.

IV. CONCLUSION

Author. Thank you, Mr. Shakespeare, it was very interesting to listen to your story. At the end of our meeting it’ll be useful to watch a short film about William Shakespeare.

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Author. Shake, speare… It means “the man with the spear”. And we can say that W. Shakespeare has shaken the whole mankind with his works.

Thank you for your attention.