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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
n.23 aprilie 1564 - d.23 aprilie 1616
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• WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (baptized 26 April 1564 23
  April 1616) was an English Poet and playwright,
  widely regarded as the greatest writer in the
  English language, he is often called England's
  national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply
  "The Bard").

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• SHAKESPEARE was born and raised in
  Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married
  Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children
  Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith.

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• Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful
  career in London as an actor, writer, and part
  owner of a playing company called the Lord
  Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men.
  He appears to have retired to Stratford around
  1613, where he died three years later.

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• MARRIAGE AND LIFE
• IN LONDON
• 1582 at age 18 married Anne Hathaway (his wife
  was 26)
• 1583-1592 ???
• 1592 (28 years old) went to London
• actor and playwright
• first accused of borrowing from other playwrights
• 1592-1594 Plague

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• SHAKESPEARE PROSPERS
• 1598 built Globe Theatre The Globe Theatre was
  located in Southwark district of London, red
  light district It was built to hold 2,000
  3,000 audience members.
• Owned shares in it
• Father granted a coat-of-arms
• Gentlemen
• Recognized as a genius in his own time
• HONORED AS ACTOR AND PLAYWRIGHT
• Queen Elizabeth dies in 1603
• King James I takes the throne
• Shakespeares Theatre company becomes the Kings
  Company
• Member of famous writers group (Mermaid Tavern)
• DEATH AND BURIAL AT STRATFORD
• 1610 retired from theatre
• 1613 Globe theatre burns down
• lost much money but still wealthy
• helps rebuild Globe theatre
• Dies on April 23, 1616 at age 52

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SHAKESPEARES ? GRAVE
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• SHAKESPEARES FOUR PERIODS
• First Period
• - Apprenticeship (Age 26-30)
• Second Period
• Mastered his art!
• Favorite Romantic Comedy
• Third Period
• - Problem of Evil in the World
• Forth Period
• Creates a new drama form
• Tragicomedy or the dramatic romance

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• His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154
  sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several
  other poems. His plays have been translated into
  every major living language and are performed
  more often than those of any other playwright.

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• The first recorded works of Shakespeare are
  Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI,
  written in the early 1590s during a vogue for
  historical drama. Shakespeare's plays are
  difficult to date, however and studies of the
  texts suggest that Titus Andronicus, The Comedy
  of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew and Two
  Gentlemen of Verona may also belong to
  Shakespeares earliest period.
• Shakespeare's first plays were written in the
  conventional style of the day. He wrote them in a
  stylised language The poetry depends on extended,
  sometimes elaborate metaphors , and the language
  is often rhetorical.
• Shakespeares plays are divided into comedies,
  histories and tragedies.

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• COMEDIES
• All's Well That Ends Well
• As You Like It
• The Comedy of Errors
• 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
• The Taming of the Shrew
• The Tempest
• Twelfth Night, or What You Will
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Two Noble Kinsmen
• The Winter's Tale

• Among HISTORIES we should mention
• 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

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

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• Shakespeare most performed plays are Hamlet,
  Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest,
  A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, The Taming
  of the Shrew. The tragic structure of human
  nature is heavenly exhibited in Hamlet
  considered as being Shakespeares longest play
  and among the most powerful and influential
  tragedies in the English literature(Thomson).
• Tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, Titus
  Andronicus, Mac Beth, King Lear, Othello, Anthony
  and Cleopatra, Cymbeline open an endless capacity
  of analyzing human being behaviour.
• The bloody endings, the harsh perspective on life
  featuring revenge, guilt, death, suicide,
  madness, outrageous murders, jealousy, complete
  the tragic life circle, leaving the audience and
  readers breathless.
• Comedies As you like it, Measure for Measure,
  Loves Labours Lost, The Comedy of Errors,
  A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Tempest
  display the never-ending struggle between the
  forces of good and evil and the theme of love
  that has profound effects on characters actions
  compelling the fact that most of them hide
  themselves in false identities.
• Published in 1609, the Sonnets were the last of
  Shakespeare's non-dramatic works to be printed. A
  prominent theme of Shakespeare's sonnets is the
  paradoxical nature of love, Shakespeare depicted
  the human passion. Other themes refer to beauty,
  mortality, the ravages of time.

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?poetical view

• Timpul este prea lent pentru cei care asteapta,
  prea iute pentru cei care se tem, prea lung
  pentru cei care se plâng, prea scurt pentru cei
  care sarbatoresc. Dar, pentru cei ce iubesc,
  timpul este o eternitate.

Sa te aseman cu o zi de vara?Frumusete si
balanta ai mai mult.În mai, ades furtuni muguri
doboara,Iar verile-s prea scurte, si-n
tumult.De multe ori cerescul ochi prea arde,Sau
ceturi auriul chip l-au sters,Si ce-i frumos din
frumusete scadeÎntâmplator, sau de-al naturii
mers.Dar vesnica ta vara nu se duce,Minunea
chipului tu n-o sa-ti schimbi,Nu te umbreste
moartea-ntre naluceCând în eterne versuri cresti
în timp.Cât mai respira-n lume om, cât
ochiu-nvata,Trai-va si acest poem si-ti va da
viata.
Când ochii mi-i închid ei vad mai bineCa ziua
n-au prea multe de aflatDar când adorm, în vis
pornesc spre tineSi-n bezna, vii, viu bezna o
strabat.Tu, umbra ce dai umbrelor splendoare,Fa
umbra ta aievea sa-mi aparaCând ochii orbi o
vad stralucitoare,În clar de zi va straluci mai
clara.Încânta-mi ochii, spun, ca tare-as
vreaSa-i vad pe-ai tai în fapt de dimineataAsa
cum toata noaptea umbra taÎn somnu-mi greu
privirea mi-o rasfata.Când nu te vad, mi-e ziua
noapte-ntreagaSi noaptea-i zi când visele
te-ncheaga. Sonet 43
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?after time

• O, slabiciune, numele tau e femeie!
• Lumea-ntreaga e o scena si toti oamenii-s actori.
• Ceea ce vrem sa facem, s-o facem atunci când
  vrem pentru ca acest vrem se schimba si are
  scaderi si amânari.
• Suntem facuti din acelasi material din care sunt
  tesute visele.
• Moartea este o datorie pe care fiecare nu o poate
  plati decât o singura data.
• Asculta-i pe multi, vorbeste la putini.
• Nu exista nimic bun sau rau, numai gândirea
  noastra face ca lucrurile sa arate astfel.
• Vointa noastra si destinul merg atât de opus
  încât planurile mereu ne sunt rasturnate.
• Noi când ne nastem plângem ca intram... pe
  aceasta mare scena de bufoni

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?finish.
backdrop falls.

• alls well that ends well.
• but his opera never ended

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• good well, friends!

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