Shakespearean Drama

What are marginal notes (also called side glosses)?

• a short summary of the scene found at the beginning of each one.

• indications of where a scene takes place as well as who’s on stage and what they’re doing.

• notes in the margin of the play to help clarify meanings of unfamiliar words and phrases

Tragic Flaw

• A character's strength

• A character's weakness in personality that leads to their downfall

• A character's strength in personality that leads to their success

• A character's best friend

What do stage directions do?

• Reveals responses of characters to others

• Provides a preview of "who's who" and their relationship with each other

• Tell where and when events occur, describe how actions are performed, and note emotions or how a character says a line of dialogue

• Provides definitions and explanations of unfamiliar terms and expressions

What is a Shakespearean Tragedy?

• A humorous scene or speech intended to relieve tension

• A drama that results in a catastrophe, most often death, for the main characters that provide comic moments that counter the underlying tension of the serious plot.

• A character's remark that others on stage do not hear

• A drama that results in a catastrophe, most often death, for the main characters

What is a tragic hero?

• The adversary or hostile force opposing the protagonist

• The protagonist, or central character

• A character whose personality and attitude contrast sharply with those of another character

• A speech given by a character alone

What is a foil?

• The adversary or hostile force opposing the protagonist

• The protagonist, or central character

• A character whose personality and attitude contrast sharply with those of another character

• A speech given by a character alone

What is comic relief?

• A humorous scene or speech intended to relieve tension

• When the audience knows more than the characters

• A character's remark that others on stage do not hear

• A speech given by a character alone

What is a blank verse?

• A humorous scene or speech intended to relieve tension

• Humor resulting from words with similar sound and different meanings.

• A character's remark that others on stage do not hear

• Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter

A speech given by a character alone on stage that lets the audience know what the character is thinking or feeling.

• soliloquy

• aside

• dramatic irony

• comic relief

A character's remark, either to the audience or to another character, that others on stage do not hear and reveals the character's private thoughts.

• soliloquy

• aside

• dramatic irony

• comic relief