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William Shakespeare1564-1616
Macbeth
Personal Details
1564 - Born
1582 - Married Anne Hathaway
1592 – Career had begun
1599 – Shakespeare and friends build The
Globe
1603 – 1610 – Bubonic Plague
1616 - Died
WHY DO WE READ
SHAKESPEARE?
WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?
Reason #1:
GREATEST WRITER IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!
WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?
Reason #2:
HE WROTE 37 OF THE MOST POPULAR PLAYS IN THE
HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
Macbeth• Shortest tragedy
• Bloodiest tragedy
The Globe Theatre
The Globe Theatre
The Globe Theatre
WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?
Reason #3:
HE WROTE 154 SONNETS.
WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?
Side note:
What is a sonnet?
• 14 lines
• rhyme scheme
• iambic pentameter
The Sonnetiambic pentameter
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks
The Sonnet
154 sonnets of 14 lines of iambic pentameter
= 2, 156 lines of iambic pentameter
WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?
REASON #4
Because he thought and felt like we do today.
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,