Your Groups Play And Overview

The play our group did for the project was “All’s well that ends well” we had created a fairly good script we were able to memorise the script but one of our group members was at the performence so we had to get another student who had to read off the lines. But we actted well.

The typical features that all Shakespeare plays must include

The typical features that all Shakespeare plays must include vary Histories, Comedies and Tragidies but generally all Shakespeare plays have

• Good guys
• Bad guys
• Love
• Fights
• Characterisation

Relevelence of plays to 21st century

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In the 21st century the use of Shakespeare’s plays is stilled played yet not a lot of people respect Shakespeare’s plays as much as people did 4 centuries ago. This is because of all of today’s world which is all TV this and texting that there is no time to learn in school which can sadly make most or all of Shakespeare’s can be, well lost in translation which will make all of Shakespeare’s play just become useless and boring.

But the good news is that there are school in Australia e.g PMHS which help Shakespeare’s works live on. There are also many producers who are trying to remake Shakespeare’s plays into moves and at least some are successful and there could more films like “All’s well that ends well” could be a chick flick.

Tragedies, Comedies and Histories

There are always 3 types of Shakespeare Plays

Comedy

A Shakespearean comedy is one that always the light-hearted playes which always have a happy ending,  The happy ending often involve marriage for all the unmarried characters, and a tone and style that is more sweet and lovablethan Shakespeare’s other plays.

Comedies often have

A struggle of young lovers to overcome difficulty that is often presented by elders
Separation and unification
Mistaken identities
A clever servant
Heightened tensions, often within a family
Multiple, intertwining plots
Frequent use of puns

List of Shakespeare Plays

• All’s Well That Ends Well
• As You Like It
• The Comedy of Errors
• Cymbeline
• 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
• Taming of the Shrew
• The Tempest
• Twelfth Night
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Winter’s Tale

Tragedy

Shakespeare first plays were tragedies. In most or all of Shakespeare’s the protagonist is admired but doomed, the villain is very evil and will die and most of the supporting characters will probably die.

List of Shakespeare’s Tragedies

• Troilus and Cressida
• Coriolanus
• Titus Andronicus
• Romeo and Juliet
• Timon of Athens
• Julius Caesar
• Macbeth
• Hamlet
• King Lear
• Othello
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Cymbeline

Histories

Histories are normally described as those based on the lives of English kings

• 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

Lord Chamberlain’s Men

The Lord Chamberlain’s Men was the playing company that William Shakespeare worked for as actor and playwright for most of his career. The Lord’s Chamberlain’s Men would usually play in the Global Theatre.

All of Shakespeare’s play would be played by this playing company. This includes Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and MacBeth.

The global theatre

The globe theatre is the theatre Shakespeare play’s were played. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare’s playing company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, and was destroyed by fire on June 29, 1613. The Globe was owned by actors who were also shareholders in the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. On June 29, 1613 the Globe Theatre went up in flames during a performance of Henry the Eighth. A cannon, set off during the performance, misfired, igniting the wooden beams and thatching.

The global theatre Is every important to Shakespeare because this the theatre where all of his plays would be played. This is the place where Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and All’s well that ends well.