Разработка открытого урока в 9 классе на тему: «Вильям Шекспир - бард Эйвона»
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 урока в 9 классе на тему:

«Вильям Шекспир - бард Эйвона»

 William  Shakespeare-The bard of Avon

                         "All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

 They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts"

(“As You Like It”, Act II, Scene VII).

Teacher:  When we hear the term 'The Bard' our minds spring immediately to the name 'William Shakespeare'. That is because he seems to have been given the title in recognition of his stature as 'great poet' and the unofficial national poet of England. Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied and performed throughout the world.

Warming-up:

Match the halves of the phrases given on the blackboard:

Representing projects prepared by the students as an anticipatory assignment

Students are divided into three groups: Historians, Art critics, Literature critics. They acquaint students with the projects: “Shakespeare illustrated”, ”The Elizabethan Age and William Shakespeare”, “Shakespeare`s works”

Historians

The Elizabethan Era!

The English Elizabethan Era is one of the most fascinating periods in the History of England. The Elizabethan Era is named after the greatest Queens of England - Queen Elizabeth I. The Elizabethan Era is not only famous for the Virgin Queen but also for the era itself - Great Explorers, such as Sir Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh. The era of the very first Theatres in England - William Shakespeare, the globe Theatre and Christopher Marlowe! The people of the era - the Famous Figures who featured in the history of this era such as the Queen's love Robert Dudley, the sinister Dr. John Dee, the intrigues of the spy-master Sir Francis Walsingham and the Queen's chief advisor Sir William Cecil (Lord Burghley).

Globe Theatre and Shakespeare the Playwright

The Elizabethan Play writers, including William Shakespeare were not held in high esteem. Plays were sold to the theatre companies for a 'one-off' sum. There were no 'royalties' during the Elizabethan era and there were no copyright laws. Plays were blatantly copied and stolen and this plagiarism led to different versions of some plays, including those of William Shakespeare. The majority of the plays of William Shakespeare were published in 1623 in a document called The First Folio - Seven years after his death!

Globe Theatre and Shakespeare the Owner

William Shakespeare invested in the Globe Theatre and it was in his interest to write as many plays as possible! Six men became the joint owners of the Globe Theatre, the largest stakes were put up by the Burbage brothers.

The initial investment by William Shakespeare made him a wealthy man and successful man due to his share of the large profits which were made at the Globe Theatre.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in April of 1564. There is no specific date of birth because at that time the only date of importance was the date of baptism, though infants often were baptized when they were three days old. Shakespeare's baptismal date was April 26, 1564.

Shakespeare was born in the village of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. At the time of his birth, the village had a population of 1500 people, and only 200 houses Not much information is known about Shakespeare's youth, although undoubtedly he was educated in the local school, where he studied Latin and Greek, among other subjects, during a school day that often lasted from dawn to dusk.

Shakespeare was married to Anne Hathaway in 1582, when he was 18; she was 26. The exact wedding date is uncertain, but the marriage certificate was issued on November 27,1582. Anne was the daughter of a respected yeoman farmer. William and Anne had their first child, Susanna, in May of 1583. This was followed by the birth of twins, Hamnet and Judith, in January of 1585.

The first written reference to Shakespeare's existence in London occurred in 1592, when Shakespeare was in his late twenties. He seems to have been fairly well established in the theatre by that point, since the reference, written by another playwright, hints of jealousy at Shakespeare's success.

With his two patrons, the Earls of South Hampton and Pembrooke, Shakespeare rose quickly in the theater as both an actor and an author. He joined the Lord Chamberlin's Men, an acting company which was protected by the Queen, becoming a shareholder and senior member in 1595. Because of his success in London, he was able to purchase New Place, the largest and most elegant house in his home town of Stratford, when he was in his early thirties (1597).

In addition to his popularity as both an actor and playwright, Shakespeare became joint owner of the famous Globe theater when it opened in 1599. His share of the company's management added heavily to his wealth.

Shakespeare's financial success in the London theatre enabled him to retire and return to his home in Stratford around 1610. He lived there comfortably until his death on April 23, 1616 (it is popularly believed that he died on his birthday). He is buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Though Shakespeare is most closely associated with the Elizabethan period, his career can be categorized as both Elizabethan and Jacobean, as several works were completed after James I became king in 1603.

Art critics

Shakespeare Illustrated will always be a work in progress; Richard Altick calculates in Paintings from Books that "pictures from Shakespeare accounted for about one fifth--some 2,300--of the total number of literary paintings recorded between 1760 and 1900" (255). And those are just the paintings by British artists.The finest paintings by the best artists, however, are preserved and exhibited in museums all over the world, and the renewed interest in nineteenth-century British art in the last few decades makes it easier for us to identify and see reproductions of the many paintings based on Shakespeare's plays.

 «A Midsummer Night's Dream» in the works of art.

   Of all Shakespeare's works A Midsummer Night's Dream has had the most compelling hold on the imagination of painters.  

William Blake made a series of watercolors in the early 1790's.  

By the mid 1800's a tradition developed among British and Scottish Painters that continues today all over the world in every known form of art media...

This exhibition of 21st Century Victorian-style fairy paintings embraces this tradition...

Great painters – great paintings. (картина, имя художника, название произведения, краткое описание)

1.James Northcote, The Murder of the Princes in the Tower (c. 1805)

There are several versions of this painting by Northcote, an earlier one purchased for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, where the terrible subject made it one of the most popular pictures in the exhibition. Part of Northcote's effect is achieved by the raised lamp, the single source of illumination, that casts its light on the cruel faces of the assassins, the two sleeping princes, and the crucifix on the back wall.

2.Edmund Blair Leighton, The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets (1853-55)

Oil on canvas, size 70 x 91 inches, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia.

3. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Antony and Cleopatra (1883)

In this painting Cleopatra awaits the arrival of Antony, whose triremes we can see off in the distance. Alma-Tadema uses as his text Shakespeare's description of her barge. In Act II, Scene ii, Enobarbus describes Cleopatra's boat to Agrippa and Mecaenas.

4. Henry William Bunbury, Romeo and Juliet with Friar Laurence (1792-96)

This drawing depicts the end of Act II, Scene vii; Friar Laurence leads Romeo and Juliet from his cell to marry them: "Come, come with me, and we will make short work; / For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone / Till Holy Church incorporate two in one." This is one of twenty-two Shakespeare illustrations by Bunbury.

5. Henry A. Payne, Choosing the Red and White Roses (c. 1908)

This confrontation in the Temple Garden occurs in 1 Henry VI, Act II, scene iv, and symbolically recreates the origins of the Wars of the Roses. Richard Plantagenet (the figure on the left) who will eventually become the Duke of York plucks a white rose, the emblem of the Yorks, and his adversary, John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset (the figure on the right), picks a red rose, the badge of the Lancastrians.

6. Frederick Richard Pickersgill, Viola and the Countess (1859)

 In Act III, Scene i, of Twelfth Night Viola, disguised as a young man Cesario, once again comes to the Countess Olivia to press the suit of his master, the Duke Orsino. But Olivia is smitten with Cesario and declares her love for the young "man"

7. Frederick Richard Pickersgill, Viola and the Countess (1859)

This painting depicts Act II, Scene i, of The Tempest when Ariel prevents the murder of Alonso, the King of Naples, and his advisor Gonzalo by Antonio and Sebastian. Alonso and Gonzalo are sleeping, but Ariel sings into Gonzalo's ear,

8. Sir Thomas Lawrence, J. P. Kemble as Hamlet (1801)

The love-sick Duke Orsino, pining for the Countess Olivia who shows no interest in him, uses music to assuage his grief; Twelfth Night opens with the Duke mooning over the power of music:

9. George Henry Harlow, Sarah Siddons in the scene of Lady Macbeth sleepwalking (1814)

Sarah Kemble Siddons was renowned for her portrayal of Lady Macbeth. She first played the part in 1785 opposite her brother, John Philip Kemble. She last played the part in 1812 in her "farewell" to the theatre. She was the most famous and acclaimed actress of her day and this was her "signature" part.

10. James Barry, King Lear Weeping over the Dead Body of Cordelia (1786-88)

The reprieve arrives too late to save Cordelia and Lear, desperately hoping she still lives, weeps with grief

Literature critics

WorksComedies

Main article: Shakespearean comedy

All's Well That Ends Well‡

As You Like It

The Comedy of Errors

Love's Labour's Lost

Measure for Measure‡

The Merchant of Venice

The Merry Wives of Windsor

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Pericles, Prince of Tyre*†

The Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest*

Twelfth Night

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Noble Kinsmen*†

The Winter's Tale*        

Histories

King John

Richard II

Henry IV, part 1

Henry IV, part 2

Henry V

Henry VI, part 1†

Henry VI, part 2

Henry VI, part 3

Richard III

Henry VIII†        

Tragedies

Romeo and Juliet

Coriolanus

Titus Andronicus†

Timon of Athens†

Julius Caesar

Macbeth†

Hamlet

Troilus and Cressida‡

King Lear

Othello

Antony and Cleopatra

Cymbeline*

Poems

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Venus and Adonis

The Rape of Lucrece

The Passionate Pilgrim[e]

The Phoenix and the Turtle

A Lover's Complaint        

Lost plays

Love's Labour's Won

Cardenio†

Apocrypha

Arden of Faversham

The Birth of Merlin

Locrine

The London Prodigal

The Puritan

The Second Maiden's Tragedy

Sir John Oldcastle

Thomas Lord Cromwell

A Yorkshire Tragedy

Edward IIISir Thomas More

William Shakespeare, in terms of his life and his body of work, is the most written-about author in the history of Western civilization. His canon includes 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 epic narrative poems. The First Folio (cover shown at left) was published posthumously in 1623 by two of Shakespeare's acting companions, John Heminges and Henry Condell. Ever since then, the works of Shakespeare have been studied, analyzed, and enjoyed as some of the finest masterpieces of the English language.

It is all the more wondrous when one can study the works and see Shakespeare developing as a playwright right there upon the pages. Love's Labours Lost and the early comedies are the work of a gifted and clever author. Perhaps such plays alone would have earned him literary fame in later days. The grandeur of a Hamlet or King Lear, however, is the work of a master who learned from his own writing and long practice.

In his time, Shakespeare was the most popular playwright of London. As centuries have passed, his genius eclipses all others of his age; Jonson, Marlowe, Kyd, Greene, Dekker, Heywood—none approach the craft or the humanity of character that marks the Bard's work. He took the art of dramatic verse and honed it to perfection. He created the most vivid characters of the Elizabethan stage. His usage of language, both lofty and low, shows a remarkable wit and subtlety. Most importantly, his themes are so universal that they transcend generations to stir the imaginations of audiences everywhere to this day.

His plays generally fall into four categories:

Pre-1594 (Richard III, The Comedy of Errors)

1594–1600 (Henry V, Midsummer Night's Dream)

1600–1608 (Macbeth, King Lear)

Post-1608 (Cymbeline, The Tempest)

The first period has its roots in Roman and medieval drama—the construction of the plays, while good, is obvious and shows the author's hand more brusquely than the later works. The earliest Shakespeare also owes a debt to Christopher Marlowe, whose writing probably gave much inspiration at the onset of the Bard's career.

The second period showed more growth in style, and the construction becoming less labored. The histories of this period are Shakespeare's best, portraying the lives of kings and royalty in most human terms. He also begins the interweaving of comedy and tragedy, which would become one of his stylistic signatures. His comedies mature in this period as well, portraying a greater characterization in their subjects.

The third period marks the great tragedies, and the principal works which would earn the Bard his fame in later centuries. His tragic figures rival those of Sophocles, and might well have walked off the Greek stage straight onto the Elizabethan. Shakespeare is at his best in these tragedies. The comedies of this period, however, show Shakespeare at a literary crossroads—moody and without the clear comic resolution of previous comedies. Hence, the term "problem plays" to describe them.

The fourth period encompasses romantic tragicomedy. Shakespeare at the end of his career seemed preoccupied with themes of redemption. The writing is more serious yet more lyrical, and the plays show Shakespeare at his most symbolic. It is argued between scholars whether this period owed more to Shakespeare's maturity as a playwright or merely signified a changing trend in Elizabethan theatre at the time.

Reciting Sonnets

Each group recites sonnets and literary translations by heart:

Historians – Sonnet 34

Зачем ты ясный день мне посулил

И без плаща меня отправил в путь,

Чтоб с неба дождь потом холодный лил

И мне дурную мглу пришлось вдохнуть?

Ты моего касаешься лица

Сиянием врачующим своим,

Но если исцеляются сердца,

По-прежнему позор неизлечим.

Пускай обидчик сам теперь скорбит,

Не легче оскорбленному нести

Тяжелый крест мучительных обид,

Хоть оскорбитель говорит: "Прости!"

Но так твоя слеза мне дорога,

Что все искупят эти жемчуга.

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,

And make me travel forth without my cloak,

To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,

Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?

'Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,

To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,

For no man well of such a salve can speak

That heals the wound and cures not the disgrace:

Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief;

Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss:

The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief

To him that bears the strong offence's cross.

Ah! but those tears are pearl which thy love sheds,

And they are rich and ransom all ill deeds.

Art critics – Sonnet 3

Глянь в зеркало, и скажет лик твой зримый:

"Вселенское ты сохрани единство,

Возобнови себя, неповторимый,

Даруя девственности материнство".

Какому лону женскому не мил

Благословенный мужний твой посев,

И кто себя в себе похоронил,

Себялюбиво склеп запечатлев?

В тебе увидеть матери дано

Апрель, в котором вся ее весна;

Для старости своей готовь окно,

Чтобы твоя весна была видна.

Себя не завещаешь в свой черед,

И милый образ твой с тобой умрет.

Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest

Now is the time that face should form another;

Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,

Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.

For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb

Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?

Or who is he so fond will be the tomb

Of his self-love, to stop posterity?

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee

Calls back the lovely April of her prime:

So thou through windows of thine age shall see

Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time.

But if thou live, remember'd not to be,

Die single, and thine image dies with thee.

Literature critics – Sonnet 5

Те самые часы, что нам родят

Прелестный лик, чарующий все взгляды,

Как злой тиран в тиши готовят яд,

Чтоб смыть с лица блеск вешнего наряда.

Ведь время неустанно гонит лето

К убожеству уродливой зимы,

Где снегом все, как саваном одето,

Где листья и цветы - добыча тьмы.

Когда в стенах хрустального фиала

Не жил бы вешний запах и зимой,

То сладость бы его не оживала,

И память бы о нем была немой.

Но, извлеченный из цветов, зимою

Хранит он хоть на вид - их суть собою.

Those hours, that with gentle work did frame

The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,

Will play the tyrants to the very same

And that unfair which fairly doth excel:

For never-resting time leads summer on

To hideous winter and confounds him there;

Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,

Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where:

Then, were not summer's distillation left,

A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,

Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,

Nor it nor no remembrance what it was:

But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet,

Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.

Listening Comprehension

Students listen to the story about William Shakespeare while watching the presentation and fill in the gaps with the words and phrases given above the text:

1)mayor; 2) was born; 3) fantastic imagination; 4) a positive review; 5) instability;

6) was performed; 7) was married; 8) romantic poet; 9) a secret; 10) understand

William Shakespeare  _______  in 1562. His father was a local glover and a  ______  of the town of Stradford-upon-Avon where William was born. William lived in the time of tremendous  _________  . The policy of the reformation threatened devoted Catholics like his parents.  Wallah rights, wars and plagues threatened the whole living left and its new Queen Elizabeth. In times of crisis people turned to the play houses both to forget their problems and    ___________   them. “Romeo and Juliet” was one of Shakespeare`s conspicuous successes. When he wrote the play in 1594 he had already achieved success in the theatre. The “Romeo and Juliet” is one of the first plays for which Shakespeare got  ___________   from his critics.

“Romeo and Juliet” was an instant success. Many other writers following praise of Shakespeare as the poet of the heart Robin Life. The play  __________  in three theatres at the same time. By getting a share of the profits of his plays as well as his salary as a player and a poet Shakespeare was now a respected and successful playwright.

Ironically, for the man regarded as the greatest  __________  of the Renaissance, very little is known about Shakespeare`s own love life. We know that he  ___________  in 1582 to Ann Hathaway, a woman four years older than himself. But nothing else is definite. He was a man with   _________   and worked all his life for good stories keeping his own life _______  .Only a mile was passed to William Shakespeare himself and to new exciting stories making the man almost as mythical as his plays.

Key text:

William Shakespeare was born in 1562. His father was a local glover and a mayor of the town of Stradford-upon-Avon where William was born. William lived in the time of tremendous instability. The policy of the reformation threatened devoted Catholics like his parents.  Wallah rights, wars and plagues threatened the whole living left and its new Queen Elizabeth. In times of crisis people turned to the play houses both to forget their problems and understand them. “Romeo and Juliet” was one of Shakespeare`s conspicuous successes. When he wrote the play in 1594 he had already achieved success in the theatre. The “Romeo and Juliet” is one of the first plays for which Shakespeare got a positive review from his critics.

“Romeo and Juliet” was an instant success. Many other writers following praise of Shakespeare as the poet of the heart Robin Life. The play was performed in three theatres at the same time. By getting a share of the profits of his plays as well as his salary as a player and a poet Shakespeare was now a respected and successful playwright.

Ironically, for the man regarded as the greatest romantic poet of the Renaissance, very little is known about Shakespeare`s own love life. We know that he was married in 1582 to Ann Hathaway, a woman four years older than himself. But nothing else is definite. He was a man with fantastic imagination and worked all his life for good stories keeping his own life a secret. Only a mile was passed to William Shakespeare himself and to new exciting stories making the man almost as mythical as his plays.  

Students read the text and check up their variants.

Group work

Students get the excerpts from Shakespeare`s works and papers with the notions “Love”, “Death”, “Life”. The task is

to find the descriptions to these notions, write them on the papers and put ones on the blackboard.

Historians – “Death”

MACBETH

MACBETH

Hang out our banners on the outward walls;

The cry is still, "They come:" our castle's strength

Will laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie

Till famine and the ague eat them up:

Were they not forc'd with those that should be ours,

We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,

And beat them backward home.

[A cry of women within.]

What is that noise?

SEYTON:

It is the cry of women, my good lord.

MACBETH:

I have almost forgot the taste of fears:

The time has been, my senses would have cool'd

To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair

Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir

As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors;

Direness, familiar to my slaught'rous thoughts,

Cannot once start me.

[Re-enter Seyton.]

Wherefore was that cry?

SEYTON:

The queen, my lord, is dead.

MACBETH:

She should have died hereafter;

There would have been a time for such a word.—

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more: it is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

Art critics – “Love”

Othello

DESDEMONA   любовь

Why, this is not a boon;

'Tis as I should entreat you wear your gloves,

Or feed on nourishing dishes, or keep you warm,

Or sue to you to do a peculiar profit

To your own person: nay, when I have a suit

Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed,

It shall be full of poise and difficult weight

And fearful to be granted.

OTHELLO

I will deny thee nothing:

Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this,

To leave me but a little to myself.

DESDEMONA

Shall I deny you? no: farewell, my lord.

OTHELLO

Farewell, my Desdemona: I'll come to thee straight.

DESDEMONA

Emilia, come. Be as your fancies teach you;

Whate'er you be, I am obedient.

OTHELLO

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,

But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,

Chaos is come again.

IAGO

My noble lord--

OTHELLO

What dost thou say, Iago?

IAGO

Did Michael Cassio, when you woo'd my lady,

Know of your love?

Literature critics – “Life”

As You Like It    

SCENE I. The Forest of Arden.

    Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and two or three Lords, like foresters

DUKE SENIOR

    Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,

    Hath not old custom made this life more sweet

    Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods

    More free from peril than the envious court?

    Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,

    The seasons' difference, as the icy fang

    And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,

    Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,

    Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say

    'This is no flattery: these are counsellors

    That feelingly persuade me what I am.'

    Sweet are the uses of adversity,

    Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,

    Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;

    And this our life exempt from public haunt

    Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,

    Sermons in stones and good in every thing.

    I would not change it.

AMIENS

    Happy is your grace,

    That can translate the stubbornness of fortune

    Into so quiet and so sweet a style.

DUKE SENIOR

    Come, shall we go and kill us venison?

    And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,

    Being native burghers of this desert city,

    Should in their own confines with forked heads

    Have their round haunches gored.

Acting out the plays

“Romeo and Juliet”

Act 2, Scene 2

ROMEO

    Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear

    That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops--

JULIET

    O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,

    That monthly changes in her circled orb,

    Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

ROMEO

    What shall I swear by?

JULIET

    Do not swear at all;

    Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,

    Which is the god of my idolatry,

    And I'll believe thee.

ROMEO

    If my heart's dear love--

JULIET

    Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee,

    I have no joy of this contract to-night:

    It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;

    Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be

    Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweet, good night!

    This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,

    May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

    Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest

    Come to thy heart as that within my breast!

ROMEO

    O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?

JULIET

    What satisfaction canst thou have to-night?

ROMEO

    The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.

JULIET

    I gave thee mine before thou didst request it:

    And yet I would it were to give again.

ROMEO

    Wouldst thou withdraw it? for what purpose, love?

JULIET

    But to be frank, and give it thee again.

    And yet I wish but for the thing I have:

    My bounty is as boundless as the sea,

    My love as deep; the more I give to thee,

    The more I have, for both are infinite.

    Nurse calls within

    I hear some noise within; dear love, adieu!

    Anon, good nurse! Sweet Montague, be true.

    Stay but a little, I will come again.

    Exit, above

ROMEO

    O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard.

    Being in night, all this is but a dream,

    Too flattering-sweet to be substantial.

    Re-enter JULIET, above

JULIET

    Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed.

    If that thy bent of love be honourable,

    Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow,

    By one that I'll procure to come to thee,

    Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite;

    And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay

    And follow thee my lord throughout the world.

Nurse

    [Within] Madam!

JULIET

    I come, anon.--But if thou mean'st not well,

    I do beseech thee--

Nurse

    [Within] Madam!

JULIET

    By and by, I come:--

    To cease thy suit, and leave me to my grief:

    To-morrow will I send.

ROMEO

    So thrive my soul--

JULIET

    A thousand times good night!

    Exit, above

ROMEO

    A thousand times the worse, to want thy light.

    Love goes toward love

“Hamlet” (monologue - shortened)

To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pitch and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry

And lose the name of action.

TO BE, OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS THE QUESTION

Questions to the “actors”:

1.What is the main idea of “Romeo and Juliet” (“Hamlet”)?

2. Is the role of Juliet (Romeo, Hamlet) close to you?

Approximate answers:

1. The idea of revenge is a major theme in the book. The amount of revenge wanted in the play is amazing. Revenge is wanted on so many people and because of it many people die.(“Hamlet”)

The knowledge test on plays plots. Students watch the feature films fragments “Othello”, “Hamlet”, “King Lear” and “Twelfth Night”, guess them and retell the plot of each play.

The Summary of Othello

This drama is one of the great tragedy themed plays by William Shakespeare. Othello is a highly esteemed general in the service of Venice. Iago is Othello's ambitious friend. Othello promotes the Michael Cassio to the position of personal lieutenant and Iago is deadly jealous. Iago begins an evil and malicious campaign against the hero. Othello elopes with Desdemona but Iago starts to plot against them. Othello becomes jealous and suspicious of Desdemona. He confides in Iago that he plans to poison Desdemona. Plots and murders ensue and Othello returns to the castle to kill his innocent wife. He eventually smothers her to death.

Emilia tells Othello the truth about the scheming Iago. Othello wounds Iago, then kills himself. Iago kills Emilia.

The Summary of King Lear

This drama is one of the great tragedy themed plays by William Shakespeare. The themes of the play cover greed, betrayal, lust for power, and cruelty. The story of King Lear, an aging monarch who is headstrong old man who is blind to his weaknesses, decides to divide his kingdom amongst his three daughters, according to which one recites the best declaration of love. Goneril and Regan who are the selfish daughters of Lear who pretend to love him but later treat him cruelly. Cordelia who is the loyal and unselfish daughter. King Lear disowns Cordelia after confusing her honesty with insolence. The end of the play ends in death by various methods including poison and suicide. Cordelia dies and King Lear, now a broken man, also dies.

Тhe Summary of Macbeth

This drama is one of the great tragedy themed plays by William Shakespeare. The themes illustrated in the play include ambition, fate, deception and treachery. Three witches  decide to confront the great Scottish general Macbeth on his victorious return from a war between Scotland and Norway. The Scottish king, Duncan, decides that he will confer the title of the traitorous Cawdor on the heroic Macbeth. Macbeth, and another General called Banquo, happen upon the three witches. The witches predict that he will one day become king. He decides that he will murder Duncan. Macbeth's wife agrees to his plan. He then murders Duncan assisted by his wife who smears the blood of Duncan on the daggers of the sleeping guards. A nobleman called Macduff discovers the body. Macbeth kills the guards insisting that their daggers smeared with Duncan's blood are proof that they committed the murder. The crown passes to Macbeth. More murders ensue and the bloodied ghost of Banquo appears to Macbeth. Lady Macbeth's conscience now begins to torture her and she imagines that she can see her hands covered with blood. She commits suicide. Macduff kills Macbeth and becomes king.

Work with famous quotations from Shakespeare’s works. Students match the English and Russian versions.

Key table

Summing-up: Crosswords                                                                                                                       

1. Shakespeare`s theatre.    (Globe)
2. Seven plays under one name.     (Henry)
3. Historical period of Shakespeare`s creative work.    (Renaissance)
4. The name of the Queen of England who ruled the country in the 16th century.     (Elizabeth)
5. The bronze monument to Shakespeare.    (Statue)
6. There are 154 of them in Shakespeare`s work.    (Sonnets)

 Students guess the horizontal word “ GENIUS”