1. Our revised schedule
Contact info:
*please include your full name and your class in emails
*please call or text before coming over
Book report:
Look at your revised schedule to see what
chapters and questions are due on weeks 6, 9 &
13 for your book report project.

2. Warm-up: sonnet 116

3. Match the lines of sonnet 116 with their summarized versions
1. Let me not to the marriage of true a. Oh no! it is a lighthouse
minds
b. Love is the guiding north star to every
2. Admit impediments. Love is not love lost ship,
3. Which alters when it alteration finds, c. Which changes when it finds a change in
circumstances,
4. Or bends with the remover to remove:
d. That sees storms but it never shaken;
5. O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
e. Whose value cannot be calculated,
6. That looks on tempests and is never although its altitude can be measured.
shaken;
f. Or bends from its firm stand even when a
7. It is the star to every wandering bark, lover is unfaithful:
8. Whose worth's unknown, although his g. Let me not declare any reasons why two
height be taken.
h. True-minded people should not be
married. Love is not love
Mabillard, Amanda. An Analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116. Shakespeare Online. 2000. (day/month/year you accessed the information) <
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/116detail.html >.

4. 9. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips i. Love does not alter with hours and
and cheeks weeks,
10. Within his bending sickle's compass j. Then I recant all that I have written, and
come: no man has ever [truly] loved.
11. Love alters not with his brief hours k. Comes within the compass of his sickle.
and weeks,
l. But, rather, it endures until the last day
12. But bears it out even to the edge of of life.
doom.
m. Love is not at the mercy of Time,
13. If this be error and upon me proved, though physical beauty
14. I never writ, nor no man ever loved. n. If I am proved wrong about these
thoughts on love

5. 1. Let me not to the marriage of true g. Let me not declare any reasons why two
minds
h. True-minded people should not be
2. Admit impediments. Love is not love married. Love is not love
3. Which alters when it alteration finds, c. Which changes when it finds a change in
circumstances,
4. Or bends with the remover to remove:
f. Or bends from its firm stand even when a
5. O no! it is an ever-fixed mark lover is unfaithful:
6. That looks on tempests and is never a. Oh no! it is a lighthouse
shaken;
d. That sees storms but it never shaken;
7. It is the star to every wandering bark,
b. Love is the guiding north star to every
8. Whose worth's unknown, although his lost ship,
height be taken.
e. Whose value cannot be calculated,
although its altitude can be measured.

6. 9. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips m. Love is not at the mercy of Time,
and cheeks though physical beauty
10. Within his bending sickle's compass k. Comes within the compass of his sickle.
come:
i. Love does not alter with hours and
11. Love alters not with his brief hours weeks,
and weeks,
l. But, rather, it endures until the last day
12. But bears it out even to the edge of of life.
doom.
n. If I am proved wrong about these
13. If this be error and upon me proved, thoughts on love
14. I never writ, nor no man ever loved. j. Then I recant all that I have written, and
no man has ever [truly] loved.

7. • What is the theme or main idea of this sonnet?
• What does Shakespeare compare love to?
• Do you agree with the comparisons?
• How would you describe love? What is love like?
*These types of descriptions through comparison
are types of figurative language called metaphors
and similes.

8. • Metaphor: a figure of speech comparing things
that are basically unalike to make the reader see
them as similar in some way
e.g. The thief was a fox.
The boy remained a rock for his family during the tragedy.
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! (from ‘Romeo & Juliet)
• Simile: a comparison of things that are basically
unalike by using the words like, as, as if, than, such
as, or resembles; most similes begin with like or as
e.g. The unkind words struck like a knife in the girl's heart.
She eats like a bird.
Sunshine and rain at once; her smiles and tears were like (from ‘King Lear’)

9. The Renaissance
1485-1660
Notes
on pg.
35

10. Two Time Periods:
•The Elizabethan Period: the reign of Elizabeth I, 1586-1603
•Jacobean Period: he reign of James I of England, 1603-1625
Content:
•world view shifts from religion and after life to one stressing
the human life on earth
•popular theme: development of human potential
•popular theme: many aspects of love explored
•unrequited love
•constant love
•timeless love
•courtly love
•love subject to change

11. • Style/Genres:
• poetry
– the sonnet
• drama
– written in verse
– supported by royalty
– tragedies, comedies, histories
• Effect:
• commoners welcomed at some play productions (like
ones at the Globe) while conservatives try to close the
theaters on grounds that they promote brazen behaviors

12. • Historical Context:
• War of Roses ends in 1485 and political stability arrives
• Printing press helps stabilize English as a language and
allows more people to read a variety of literature
• Economy changes from farm-based to one of
international trade
• A Sampling of Key Literature & Authors:
• William Shakespeare
• Thomas Wyatt
• Ben Jonson
• Cavalier Poets
• Metaphysical Poets

13. Queen Elizabeth I

14. The Globe Theatre

16. The Globe Galleries

17. Inside the Globe

18. The Globe Theatre
• The Globe Theatre normally refers to one of
three theatres in London associated with William
Shakespeare.
• The original Globe Theatre, built in 1599 by the
playing company to which Shakespeare
belonged, and destroyed by fire in 1613.
• The rebuilt Globe Theatre built in 1614, closed in
1642, and demolished in 1644.
• A modern reconstruction of the original Globe,
named 'Shakespeare's Globe Theatre', opened in
1997.

19. Group 1: William Shakespeare

20. The Facts...
 Born in 1564
Pg. 36-
 1582 – marries Anne Hathaway
how many
 3 children – Susanna, Judith,
Hamnet
 154 sonnets & a few poems you
blanks can
 Writes in 16th & 17th century English
 Probably 35 plays
fill in?
 Probably the most famous English
writer EVER

21. Shakespeare wrote in three genres:
 Comedy
 Tragedy
 History
+Sonnets

22. • Comedy
– Often romantic
– Characters resolve their problems
– Usually ends with a wedding
– Tragicomedy—looks like disaster, but ends well
• History
– Interpreted events from the past
– Built nationalism
– Often commented on current politics and leaders
• Tragedy—different types
– Noble hero falls due to a flaw
– Wronged hero falls seeking revenge
– Evil “hero” falls while doing evil

23. Shakespeare’s plays take place in:
 Denmark Italy
 Scotland Many locations
Troy
 England
Egypt
 France Unknown
 Greece islands

25. Shakespeare deals with issues we still deal with!
 Gender Religion
Teenage love
 Sexuality
Parent/child
 Racism disputes
 Honor Politics
 War & fighting Revenge
 Death

26. Romeo and Juliet

27. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

28. Hamlet

29. Sonnets Look on
pgs. 37-38
• What is a sonnet?
• What are sonnets usually about?
• How many lines does a sonnet have?
• What is the rhyme scheme of a sonnet?
– E.g. pg. 38
• What is the meter of a Shakespearean
sonnet?

30. Rhyme Scheme
• Stanzas (=‘paragraphs’ in poetry)
– 2 line stanza= couplet
– 3-line stanza=triplet
– 4-line stanza=_____train
– 5-line stanza=_____tet
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Quatrain/quatrain/quatrain/couplet

31. Meter
• Iambs and trochees (=pairs of syllables;
either stressed/unstressed (trochee) or
unstressed/stressed (iamb)
e.g. wander; goodbye; forget; problem
• A foot (=a pair of syllables)
• 1 foot= monometer
• 2 feet=dimeter
• 3 feet= trimeter
• 4 feet=tetrameter
• 5 feet=?

32. Meter=type + number of feet per
line
To determine a poem’s meter:
1.Divide each line into pairs of syllables and
decide whether they are iambs or trochees
2.Count how many feet there are in each line

33. From ‘On His Blindness’ by John Milton
When I consider how my life is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide
When I / con si/ der how/ my life / is spent
Ere half / my days / in this / dark world / and wide
Are these pairs iambs or trochees?
When I / con si/der how/ my life / is spent
Ere half / my days / in this / dark world / and wide
How many feet are in each line?
=iambic pentameter

34. From ‘The Phoenix and the Turtle’ by William Shakespeare
Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together
Rea son,/ in it / self con/foun ded,
Saw di/vi sion/ grow to/ge ther
=trochaic tetrameter

35. Focus on Sonnet 18

36. Sonnet 18
 What does Shakespeare compare his lover to?
 What is the “eye of heaven” in line 5?
 What else does Shakespeare tell us about a
summer’s day in lines 1-8
 How is his lover different from a summer’s day?
 What do the last two lines mean?

37. Homework: due next class
• Write a Shakespearean sonnet describing
someone you love or greatly admire. Make
sure it has the correct rhyme scheme and use
at least one simile or metaphor.
• Read pg. 41-44 and answer questions on pg.43
& 45

38. Updated schedule
week period In-class Homework
4 Renaissance Group presentations on -read pgs. 41-44 +
?s on pg.43,45
Shakespeare
-Write sonnet
sonnets
5 Renaissance Group presentation on Globe -read pgs. 46-48 +
Theatre ?s on pgs. 48-49
Hamlet -Finish book
report ?s for
check #1
-Study for quiz
6 Classical Group presentations on John -read pgs. 55-58 +
?s on pg. 58
Bunyan
-Study for quiz on
*quiz* on Renaissance/ Classical period
Shakespeare
*book report reading check #1