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A Presentation by Michael LoMonico

Valentine’s Day 2014

To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,

All in the morning bedtime,

And I a maid at your window,

To be your Valentine.

Then up he rose and donn'd his clo'es

And dupp'd the chamber door,

Let in the maid, that out a maid

Never departed more. Hamlet 4.5

Good morrow, friends. Saint

Valentine is past:

Begin these wood-birds but to couple

now?

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 4.1

The word ‚love‛ appears 2209 times in

Shakespeare’s Plays.

The Comedies with most uses of the word ‚love:‛

Love’s Labor’s Lost 62

Much Ado About Nothing 71

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 79

As You Like It 82

Two Gentleman of Verona 104

The Tragedies with the most uses of the word ‚love:‛

King Lear 43

Hamlet 50

Troilus and Cressida 52

Othello 66

Romeo and Juliet 94

love-affairs

love-book

love-broker

love-cause

love-day

love-devouring

love-feat

love-god

love-gods

love-in-idleness

love-juice

love-kindling

love-lacking

love-letters

love-line

love-monger

love-news

love-performing

love-prate

love-rhymes

love-shaft

love-shak'd

love-sick

love-song

love-songs

love-springs

love-suit

love-thoughts

love-tokens

love-wounded

Your Turn

Say these Words of Love

out loud

I can express no

kinder sign of love,

than this kind kiss.

If music be the food

of love, play on.

Speak low if you

speak love.

The course of true

love never did run

smooth

She’s beautiful, and therefore to be

wooed;

She is woman, and therefore to be won

Shall I compare thee

to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely

and more temperate.

Love looks not with

the eyes, but with the

mind, and therefore

is winged

Cupid painted blind.

Hear my soul speak.

Of the very instant

that I saw you, did my

heart fly at your

service.

Who ever loved

that loved not at

first sight?

I love you more than

words can wield the

matter, dearer than

eyesight, space and

liberty.

Love is blind, and

lovers cannot see, the

pretty follies that

themselves commit.

Doubt that the stars are

fire,

Doubt that the sun doth

move his aides,

Doubt truth to be a liar,

But never doubt I love

For where thou art,

there is the world

itself, and where

thou art not,

desolation.

This bud of love by

summer’s ripening

breath, may prove a

beauteous flower

when next we meet.

Excellent wretch! Perditon catch my soul, but I do love thee, and when I

love thee not, chaos is come again.

I know no ways to

mince it in love, but

directly to say

‘I love you.’

You have witchcraft in

your lips.

I humbly do beseech

of your pardon, for

too much loving you.

I love thee; none

but thee, and thou

deservest it.

I love you with so

much of my heart,

that none is left to

protest.

I do love nothing in

the world so well

as you.

By Heaven, I love

thee better than

myself.

And, if you love me, as

I think you do, let's

kiss and part, for

we have much to do.

I have lov'd her ever

since I saw her; and

still I see her

beautiful.

Random Facts about Shakespeare

None of Shakespeare’s plays in his own handwriting exist today. We only have several of his signatures on some documents, but some scholars believe this passage from the play, The Book of Sir Thomas Moore, is in his handwriting.

Shakespeare wrote 37 or 38 plays

They are divided by modern editors

into four categories:

13 Comedies

10 Tragedies

10 Histories

5 Romances

The QuartosShakespeare’s plays began to be printed in 1594 as small, cheap pamphlets called quartos because of the way they were printed. Eighteen of Shakespeare’s plays had appeared in quarto editions by the time of his death in 1616. He had nothing to do with their publication.

The first Folio was published in 1623, 7 years after Shakespeare died.

It contained 35 plays. Three more (Pericles, Two Noble Kinsmen, and Troilus and Cressida were attributed to him later.

Some of what modern editors now call Romances were listed under the either Comedies or Tragedies in the First Folio.

More than 80 spelling variations are recorded for Shakespeare's name, from “Shappere” to “Shaxberd.

In the few signatures that have survived, Shakespeare spelled his name:“Willm Shaksp,” “William Shakespe,” “Wm Shakspe,” “William Shakspere,” ”Willm Shakspere,” and “William Shakspeare”

—but never “William Shakespeare

Almost four hundred years after Shakespeare's death there are 152 million pages referring to him on Google.

Question #1

Suicide occurs thirteen times in Shakespeare's plays. Which play has the most suicides?

A. Antony and Cleopatra

B. Julius Caesar

C. Othello

D. Romeo and Juliet

Othello 1

Hamlet 1

Macbeth 1

Romeo and Juliet 2

Julius Caesar 3

Antony and Cleopatra 5

Macbeth is thought to be one of the most produced plays ever, with a performance beginning somewhere in the world every four hours.

Shakespeare’s plays have a vocabulary of

some 17,000 words, four times what a well-

educated English speaker would have.

Shakespeare used 29,066 different words out of

884,647 words in all.

Scholars have speculated that Shakespeare

coined somewhere around 1,500 words.

A. advertisingB. banditC. criticD. dickensE. epilepticF. filmG. gossipH. hushI. investmentJ. jigK. kissing L. luggageM. manager

N. numbO. obsceneP. pukeQ. quarrelsomeR. rantS. shooting starT. tortureU. undressV. variedW. wild-goose chaseX. XantippeY. yelpingZ. zany

A to Z: Some words first used by Shakespeare

Myths about Shakespeare’s Life

Myths about Shakespeare’s Life• He was a schoolteacher.


• He was a deer poacher.



• He was a Catholic.




• He was a Jew.




• He was a Jew.

• He helped write the King James Bible.




• He was a Jew.


• He was unhappily married.




• He was a Jew.



• He was Italian and fled Italy to avoid the Inquisition.




• He was a Jew.




• During the “lost years” he visited Italy.




• He was a Jew.




• During the “lost years” he visited Italy.

• He was an Arab named “Sheikh Speare.”

Which Shakespeare play is the longest?

The long and the short of it…Plays Ranked by Length: the Longest1. Hamlet – 4042 lines2. Coriolanus – 3752 lines3. Cymbeline – 3707 lines4. Richard III – 3667 lines5. Antony and Cleopatra – 3552 lines6. Othello – 3551 lines7. Troilus and Cressida –3531 lines8. King Lear – 3487 lines9. The Winter’s Tale – 3348 lines 10. Henry IV, Part 2 – 3326 lines

Question #2

Which Shakespeare play is the shortest?

A. MacbethB. The Comedy of Errors C. A Midsummer Night’s DreamD. The Tempest

The long and the short of it…Plays Ranked by Length: the Shortest1. The Comedy of Errors – 1787 lines2. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – 2192 lines3. The Tempest – 2283 lines4. The Two Gentlemen of Verona – 2288 lines5. Macbeth – 2349 lines6. Pericles – 2459 lines7. Timon of Athens – 2488 lines8. Titus Andronicus – 2538 lines9. Julius Caesar – 2591 lines10. Twelfth Night – 2591 lines

Who has the most lines?1. Hamlet – 1,4222. Richard III – 1,124 3. Iago (Othello) – 1,0974. Henry V – 1,0255. Othello – 860 6. Vincentio (Measure for Measure) – 820 7. Coriolanus – 809 8. Timon of Athens – 795 9. Antony (Antony and Cleopatra) – 766 10. Richard II --753

Shakespeare used over 75 different words for sexual intercourse including:

Backtrick

Business

Juggling

Husbandry

Night-work

Sport

Tillage

Tick-tack

Tumble

Voyage

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