William Shakespeare - Clint Dias

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William Shakespeare

1564 - 1616

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born on April26th, 1564.

Shakespeare died on April 26th, 1616.

Williams father was John, a local business

man, and his mother was Mary.

William was the third oldest child.Shakespeare had seven brothers andsisters.


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William Shakespeare

Shakespeare and his family lived inStratford Upon Avon.

Stratford is about 100 miles outside ofLondon.

Shakespeare had a fourth grade educationand never attended a university.


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William Shakespeare

In 1582 Shakespeare, then 18, married 26year old Anne Hathaway.

The eight year age gap was unusual forthe time.

At the time they were married Hathawaywas pregnant with their first child,Susanna.

Shakespeare did not like his wife


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William Shakespeare

Anne and William had two other children,twins Judith and Hamnet.

At the age of eleven Hamnet passedaway.

Shakespeare was very distraught by thedeath of his son and paid tribute to him inthe play Hamlet.


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William Shakespeare

Shakespeare had a very small family forthe time, usually people had larger familiesdue to high child mortality rates.

Though Shakespeares family resided in

Stratford Shakespeare spent the majorityof his time in London.

Shakespeare resided in Stratford onlyduring the winter.


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Shakespeares Poetry

Shakespeare is know for his invention of theShakespearean sonnet.

This sonnets are 14 lines long.

Have an ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG rhymescheme.

Are all written in Iambic Pentameter.

Iambic Pentameter has 10 syllables per line and

follow an unstressed/stressed pattern. The last two rhyming lines are called a Heroic

Couplet


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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 fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

A

A

B

B

C

C

D

D

E

E

F

F

G

G

2 4 6 8 10

U /U/ /U U / U /


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Shakespeares Poetry

Shakespeare wrote 154 ShakespeareanSonnets

Shakespeare also wrote poetry that didnt

follow the Shakespearean sonnet formathowever he is most famous for theShakespearean Sonnet.


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Shakespeares Plays

Shakespeare wrote three main types ofplays.

1. Comedies

2. Histories

3. Tragedies

Shakespeare began his career with thecomedies and ended with the tragedies.


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Shakespeares Comedy

Shakespeares comedy generallyinvolves some sort of romantic follywhere there are mismatched romantic

pairings. One trait of Shakespeares comedy is

that nobody will die.

There is a dark side to Shakespearescomedy, characters will often go througha dramatic series of events.


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Shakespeares Tragedy

Shakespeares tragedy involves a main

character who is a prominent figure inhis/her society.

There is always a flaw in this persons

character that he/she doesnt realize.

The main character will always fall frompower.

The main character will always die.


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Shakespeares History

Shakespeares histories are both acomment on previous rulers as well ascurrent rulers.

Shakespeare would often point out whathe thought was wrong with thegovernment in his plays.

Because he was sponsored by the kinghe needed to hide this fact, which he didby writing about fictional or past rulers.


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Shakespeares Plays

Shakespeare wrote 13 Comedies.

Shakespeare wrote 10 Histories.

Shakespeare wrote 15 Tragedies. As Shakespeare got older his writing

became darker and darker, thus he

ended his career writing tragedies.


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Shakespeares Plays

Shakespeares plays typically have five

acts.

Typically there is a character of lowerclass who can see through all of theconfusion in the play and tells theaudience what is really going on.

Shakespeare also relies on soliloquiesand asides to inform the audience of plot.


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Soliloquy

A soliloquy is anytime where a characteris alone on stage and talking to theaudience.

The character will break the fourth walland tell the audience what he/she isthinking.

Typically in tragedy this is where welearn the main characters tragic flaw.


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Aside

An aside is similar to a soliloquy but thecharacter is not alone on the stage.

Again the fourth wall is broken, but onlythe audience knows what is going on.

Modern examples of the aside can beseen in TV shows like Malcolm in theMiddleand Saved by the Bell.


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Shakespeares Life

Shakespeare was a wealthy man for histime. He owned part of his theatre, TheGlobe, so he received a portion of the

profits from his plays.

Shakespeare became the officialplaywright of the king. His performance

group was originally Lord ChamberlainsMen and later became The Kings Men.


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Shakespeares Theatre

The Globe Theatre was built outside ofLondon, theatre was performed here dueto the Puritans.

The original Globe burned down duringShakespeares time.

During a performance of Henry the VIIIin1613 an errant cannon shot caught thethatch roof on fire.
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A second Globe was built less than 60miles from the site of the original Globein 1614.

This second Globe also burned down(though after Shakespeares death).

A third Globe was built in 1997 outside ofLondon at the site of the original Globe.


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At the time women were not allowed toact on stage.

Because of this men performed all theroles. Boys below the age of thirteenperformed the roles of women.

To compensate for this romantic sceneswere often conducted behind a curtain.


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Shakespeare did not write down any of hisplays.

Actors memorized the lines as they performed

the plays. After Shakespeares death The Kings Men

recorded all of his plays on paper to pay tributeto Shakespeare.

Because of this there are slight differences inthe various copies of his plays.


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Why was Shakespeare so popular?

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