By Taryn DeVries

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William Shakespeare

• By Taryn DeVries
• Period 3

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Early life

• Born in Stratford-Upon-Avon England
• Birthdates were not recorded but he was baptized
  on April 26 1564
• Parents were John Shakespeare Mary Arden
• He has 3 brothers and 4 sisters
• Attended grammar school in Stratford
• He was his fathers apprentice for a short time
• May have been a school teacher
• Married Anne Hathaway when he was 18
• They had three children, Susana, and twins Hamnet
  and Judith

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Time of influence

• Shakespeare was influential beginning in the
  early 1590s until his death in 1616.
• He was influential in England.
• You could compare him today's actors and
  novelists.
• His influence on the Renaissance was dramatic. He
  wrote plays about the society at the time which
  had never been done before. He was the pop
  culture of the time. Shakespeare wrote plays that
  people would come to see like we would come to
  see movies in modern day society. He also was the
  author of sonnets and poems that were great
  stories of the time.
• What he did was not the standard or normal thing
  to do at time
• One reading a play of his would automatically
  know it was Shakespeare

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First works

• First works were narrative poems
• Venus and Adonis
• The Rape of Lucrece
• The Passionate Pilgrim
• The Phoenix and the Turtle

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Famous works

• Tragedies
• Comedies
• Histories
• Sonnets
• (Click on the word to visit the slide)
• (read Sonnets last and fallow directions on other
  pages!)

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Tragedies

• These were the first of his plays
• He wrote them because his belief was that all
  other English writers had no form or artistic
  purpose
• Titus Andronicus
• Romeo and Juliet
• Hamlet
• Julius Caesar
• Othello
• Antony and Cleopatra
• King Lear
• Coriolanus
• Timon of Athens
• Macbeth

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Romeo and Juliet Balcony scene Act 2 scene 2
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Comedies

• Most of his plays were comedies
• Taming of the Shrew
• Comedy of Errors
• Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Loves Labors Lost
• Midsummer Nights Dream
• Merchant of Venice
• Much Ado About Nothing
• As you like it
• Merry Wives of Windsor
• Troilus and Cressida
• Twelfth Night
• All well that ends well
• Measure for measure
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre
• Tempest
• Cymbeline
• Winters tale

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A Midsummer Nights Dream
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Histories

• Based on true events!
• King Henry VI parts 1-3
• King Henry IV parts 12
• King John
• King Henry V
• Richard II
• Richard III
• King Henry VIII

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Actors in King Henry IV part 1
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Sonnets

• He wrote 154 sonnets
• They were wrote with an A BA B C D C D E F E FGG
  patter
• This means that a rhymed with a, b rhymed with b
  and so on

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Shakespeare Today

• Shakespeare is still very influential today.
• Students study his works in High Schools, and
  collages around the world.
• English Scholars still study his works
• His plays are still preformed
• And his poetry read aloud

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Summary

• Shakespeare was an another and a poet whos works
  are still influential today.
• His works can be found in book stores and
  Libraries around the world.

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Works sited

• Gandhi, Mahvash, and Andrea Elliott. "Shakespears
  Tragedies." Elizabethan England. 3 Apr. 2007
  lthttp//www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfi
  eld/eliz/shaktragedies.htmlgt.
• Gray, Terry A. "A Shakespeare Timeline." Mr.
  William Shakespeare and the Internet. 6 Mar.
  2005. 3 Apr. 2006 lthttp//shakespeare.palomar.edu/
  timeline/timeline.htmgt.
• Mabillard, Mabillard, Amanda. "Shakespear of
  Stratford." Shakespear Online. 20 Aug. 2000. 3
  Apr. 2007 lthttp//www.shakespeare-online.com/biogr
  aphy/gt.
• Merriman, C D. "William Shakespeare." The
  Literature Network. 2006. 3 Apr. 2007
  lthttp//www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/gt.