Prime Time 7, Coursebook plus Semester Self-checks

Goals • Extract information from a biographical text. • Structure information about a historical topic. • Read and recite a passage from a play. • Analyse and comment on extracts from plays and films. Sharing and checking information Share your information about Shakespeare and about the quotations in class. More on Shakespeare a) Use the internet and/or other sources of reference to collect additional information on Shakespeare (quotations, biographical details, views on him, etc.). b) Keep your notes and add more information as you work your way through this unit. 2  Fact file Elizabethan England (II) Apart from religious issues, Elizabeth had to deal with conspiracies, outbreaks of the plague, threats of invasions by France and Spain, and fighting in Ireland and the Netherlands. England was a poor but changing country at the time, with change being most apparent in its capital London. F 3  “To be or not to be – that is the question.” ( Hamlet , Act III, Scene i) “Though this be madness yet there is method in it.” ( Hamlet , Act II, Scene ii) “Love is blind.” ( The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene vi) 1599 1603 1613 1616 1623 The Globe Theatre opens on the south bank of the river Thames. Nearly 15,000 Londoners watch a play in one of the theatres every week. Death of Queen Elizabeth I and accession of King James I. The Lord Chamberlain’s Men become The King’s Men . The Globe Theatre burns down during the first performance of Henry VIII . Shakespeare dies in StratforduponAvon. First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays published. Globe Theatre model Shakespeare’s birthplace A modern production of Measure for Measure 137 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv