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martes, 9 de febrero de 2010

Tudor London

In Tudor times the City was the centre of trade and commerce as well as the overcrowded home of thousands. Westminster housed both the king and parliament while Southwark was devoted to louche pleasures such as bear-baiting, prostitution and the theatre. These three distinct areas were surrounded by countryside.

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Catherine of Aragon

Catherine of Aragon was the first wife of Henry VIII. She was born on December 16, 1485. Catherine was the youngest daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. She was betrothed to Arthur, Henry's older brother, at age three. She was widowed less than six months into the marriage. She was then betrothed to Henry. In order to keep a political alliance with Spain, Henry was advised to marry Catherine immediately. Catherine and Henry VIII were married in 1509. To keep the family name alive and to insure a stable Tudor monarchy and line of succession, Henry needed a son. It has been noted that in the first nine years of marriage Catherine conceived six times. Twice she miscarried, one child was stillborn, and two sons died in early infancy. In 1516, Princess Mary was born. Catherine was getting older, and there was still not a male heir to the throne. A daughter was not good enough for Henry because a woman had never ruled England. Henry was losing patience with Catherine because she could not bear a son. He had many affairs during the last years of their marriage, two of which are well-documented. One was with Elizabeth Blount, who bore him a son, and the other with Mary Boleyn, the sister of the more famous Anne. In 1527 Henry fell in love with Anne Boleyn. Henry eventually tried to prove that his marriage to Catherine had never been valid, basing his claim on Old Testament scripture which says marriage to one's brother's widow constitutes incest. During this time Catherine tried to defend her name, marriage, and the legitimacy of her child. Soon after, she was banished from the kingdom. Catherine lived in seclusion from this time till the time of her death.

The Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre is a faithful reconstruction of the open-air playhouse first built in 1599, where Shakespeare worked and for which he wrote many of his greatest plays.Each year the theatre season runs from April to October with productions of the work by Shakespeare and modern authors, and plays to an audience of 350,000 who experience the ‘wooden O’ sitting in a gallery or standing as a groundling in the yard, just as they would have done 400 years ago.The Globe's actual dimensions are unknown, but its shape and size can be approximated from scholarly inquiry over the last two centuries.[13] The evidence suggests that it was a three-storey, open-air amphitheatre approximately 100 feet (30 m) in diameter that could house up to 3,000 spectators.[14] The Globe is shown as round on Wenceslas Hollar's sketch of the building, later incorporated into his engraved "Long View" of London in 1647. However, in 1988-89, the uncovering of a small part of the Globe's foundation suggested that it was a polygon of 20 sides.[15At the base of the stage, there was an area called the pit,[16] (or, harking back to the old inn-yards, yard[17]) where, for a penny, people (the "groundlings") would stand on the rush-strewn earthen floor to watch the performance.[18] During the excavation of the Globe in 1989 a layer of nutshells was found, pressed into the dirt flooring so as to form a new surface layer.[6] Around the yard were three levels of stadium-style seats, which were more expensive than standing room.

1. TELL ME THE NAME OF THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS

0. when was Wiliam Shakespeare born? when?Stratford in 26 of april in 15641.write the name of William Shakespeare's parents. who were they?John Shakespeare and Mary Arden.2.write the name of his wife. when did they get married?Anne Hathaway. 28 de november in 1582.3. write the name of his three children. what happened to them?Susanna, Hamnet and Judith.4.what was the name of his hometown?5.write the names of the buildings in his hometown ralated to him.Heminge and Condell's Prefatory materials to the First Folio (1623).
Nicholas Rowe's Some Acount of the Life &c. of Mr. William Shakespear ( 1709);
Alexander Pope's Preface (1725);
Lewis Theobald's Preface (1733/1740);
Sir Thomas Hanmer's Preface (1743-1744);
Dr. Warburton's Preface (1747);
Dr. Johnson's Preface (1765);
George Steevens' "Advertisement to the Reader," prefaced to Twenty of the plays... (1766);
Isaac Reed's Advertisement to the 1785 edition of the Johnson-Steevens-Reed text;
John Boydell's Preface to A Catalogue of the Pictures, &c. in the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, 1793 (1789);
Thomas Bowdler's Preface to the 1818 edition of The Family Shakspeare;
Samuel Weller Singer's Preface (1826);
Advertisement from the 1836 American "Peabody" edition, based on Singer.
Charles Knight explains his motivation to publish The Pictorial Shakespeare, 1838-41, from his autobiography, Passages of a Working Life;
G. C. Verplanck's Preface to his 1847 American "Illustrated" Shakespeare.
Alexander Dyce's Preface to his 1857 first edition of The Works of William Shakespeare;
Preface to Richard Grant White's edition of Shakespeare, 1865.
Henry N. Hudson's Preface to "The Harvard Edition" of 1881.
6.where did he study?Latin grammar and literature. Broad humanistic education and presumably Catholic.7. did he go to university?yes, he did go to university8. why did he leave his family and hometown to go to London?He was to be an actor and doing different plays9. how many plays had he written when he arrived in London?
10. when can we find the first reference to shakespeare in the literary world of London?
11.When he was in London, he was anactor and playwritght who belonged to the company called , which had been founded by and whose was called .They had the best actor and the best dramatist .
12. When and where did he die?
23 of april in 1616
13.when and where did his wife die?
she 6 of august in 1623
14. Where is he buried?
Stratford-upon-Avon

1. What was the name of the company Shakespeare belonged to ? Lord Chamberlain's Men ( Later The King's Men )
2. How many companies were licensed to perform in London ? Only 2.
3. Why did Shakespeare's company build the Globe ? Shakespeare's company only built the Globe because they could not use the special playhouse that their chief actor Richard Burbage's father had built for them in 1596, a roofed theatre inside the city, in Blackfriars. James Burbage had a long history as a theatrical entrepreneur. In 1576 he built the first successful amphitheatre, known as The Theatre, in a London suburb. Twenty years later, when the lease on The Theatre's land was about to expire, he built the Blackfriars as its replacement. But the wealthy residents of Blackfriars got the government to block its use for plays, so his capital was locked up uselessly.
4. What did Shakespeare's company use to build the Globe ? It was built by two brothers, Cuthbert and Richard Burbage, who inherited its predecessor, The Theatre, from their father, James
5. Who built the Globe ? Half the shares in the new theatre were kept by the Burbages. The rest were assigned equally to Shakespeare and other members of the Chamberlain's Men (the company of players who acted there), of which Richard Burbage was principal actor and of which Shakespeare had been a leading member since late 1594. It was the lack of money to pay for it that produced the new consortium. The Burbage sons' inheritance was tied up in the Blackfriars, so extra finance was needed. That was why Shakespeare and another four of his fellows were made co-owners of the new Globe.
6. When the Globe was built , there were two other theatres in Southwark already. Which ones ? The Swan and The Rose
7. When was it built ? It was probably completed by the autumn of 1599
8. How and when was it destroyed ? In 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, the thatch of the Globe was accidentally set alight by a cannon, set off to mark the King's entrance onstage in a scene at Cardinal Wolsey's palace. The entire theatre was destroyed within the hour.
9. When was it rebuilt ? By June 1614 it had been rebuilt, this time with a tiled gallery roof and a circular shape.
10. When was it finally pulled down ? Why ? It was pulled down in 1644, two years after the Puritans closed all theatres, to make way for

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Catherine of Aragon

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1. TELL ME THE NAME OF THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS

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