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Shakespeare

What do you know?

Who was Shakespeare?

What did he do?

Shakespeare

Shakespeare intro lesson

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• Modern Shakespeare

In which century was Shakespeare born?

1. 14th
2. 15th
3. 16th
4. 17th

Timeline

● April 1564: born in Stratford-upon-Avon

● November 1582: marries Anne Hathaway

● May 1583: daughter Susanna born

● early 1585: twins Judith and Hamnet born

● c. 1585: begins acting career in London

● c. 1592: well-known dramatist in London

● August 1596: son Hamnet dies

● c. 1610: retires to Stratford, buys a large house there

● 23 April 1616: dies in Stratford-upon-Avon

How many plays did Shakespeare write?

1. 25
2. 37
3. 44
4. 53

Do you know any plays?

Shakespeare wrote a lot of poems, especially Sonnets. How many Sonnets did he write?

1. 39
2. 137
3. 154
4. 203

Sonnets

•  Shakespeare's main form of poetry
  
•  14-line poem
  
•  1609: Shakespeare's Sonnets = 154 poems
  
•  Focused on love, devotion, delight, pride
  
•  Or darker themes: shame, disgust, fear

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

   So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Reasons to study Shakespeare

1. The Tragedy plot is one of the seven basic plots.

2. He has some extraordinary storylines

3. Shakespeare's characters are very powerful

4. His plays are full of meaning and messages that are

still relevant today.

Shakespeare

● Shakespeare = influential writer in all of English literature

● 37 plays, 154 sonnets

● Famous stories and movies are based on his works, such as

Lion King (Hamlet), West Side Story (Romeo & Juliet) & She's

the Man (Twelth Night)

● 500+ film adaptions of his plays

Shakespeare month

Year 1: A midsummer night's dream

Year 2: Romeo and Juliet

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