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William Shakespeare

• Date of birth 1564
• Place of birth Stratford-upon-Avon,
  Warwickshire, about 100 miles northwest of London
• Date of marriage 1582
• The lost years 1586-1592
• Upstart crow 1592
• Beginning of his theatrical career 1594

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William Shakespeare

• The owner in the most prestigious public
  playhouse in London, the Globe 1594-1599
• Shakespeares works
• The classical plays and history plays
• The Narrative Poems and Sonnets
• Comedies
• Tragedies

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Shakespeares famous plays

• The Comedy of Errors
• Loves Labours Lost
• Henry IV
• Richard III
• Titus Andronicus
• The Taming of the Shrew
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Romeo and Juliet
• Richard II

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Shakespeares famous plays

• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• King John
• The Merchant of Venice
• Henry IV
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Henry V
• Julius Caesar
• As You Like It
• Twelfth Night

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Shakespeares famous plays

• Hamlet
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Troilus Cressida
• Alls Well That Ends Well
• Othello
• Measure for Measure
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• Antony and Clepatra

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Shakespeares famous plays

• Timon of Athens
• Coriolanus
• Pericles
• Cymbeline
• The Winters Tale
• The Tempest
• Henry VIII

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Library recommendation (4th) Hamlet

• This tragedy is a milestone in Shakespeare's
  dramatic development.
• In this book, Hamlet faced two opposing forces
  moral integrity and the need to avenge his
  father's murder.

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Library recommendation (4th) Macbeth

• Macbeth is the last of Shakespeare's four great
  tragedies.
• Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy is about Macbeth's
  bloody rise to power.

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Library recommendation (4th) King Lear

• King Lear is widely regarded as Shakespeare's
  crowning artistic achievement. King Lear is
  widely regarded as Shakespeare's crowning
  artistic achievement.

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Library recommendation (4th) Othello

• Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great
  tragedies and thus a pillar of what most critics
  take to be the apex of Shakespeare's dramatic
  art.

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Library recommendation (4th) The Merchant of
Venice

• Shakespeare wove together two ancient folk tales,
  one involving a greedy creditor trying to exact a
  pound of flesh, the other involving a marriage
  suitor's choice among three chests and thereby
  winning his (or her) mate.

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Library recommendation (4th) The Tempest

• The Tempest is the fourth, final, and the finest
  of Shakespeare's great and/or late romances.

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Library recommendation (4th)A Midsummer Night's
Dream

• Most scholars believe that Shakespeare wrote A
  Midsummer Night's Dream as a light entertainment
  to accompany a marriage celebration.

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Library recommendation (4th) The Taming Of The
Shrew

• an elaborate practical joke played by a nobleman
  on a drunken tinker

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Library recommendation (4th) As You Like It

• It is a stock romantic comedy that was familiar
  to Elizabethan audiences as an exemplar of
  "Christian" comedy.

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Library recommendation (4th) Twelfth Night

• Twelfth Night is essentially a celebration of
  romantic love and can be viewed as a traditional
  romantic comedy

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Lets go to Ancient Greece
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Ancient Greece
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Gods
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Library recommendation (4th)

• Hercules / original story by Thomas Bulfinch
• The Trojan war / original story by Thomas
  Bulfinch
• Greek stories
• Hercules and other greek legenos.
• Stories from Greek tragedies / retold by Kieran
  McGovern.
• Greek and Roman myths

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Library recommendation (4th)

• Ancient Greece / Gerhard Fink
• Gods and Heroes of ancient Greece
• The songlike era Ancient Greece
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Library recommendation (4th)

• Frederique Viver excels in reviving the myths and
  legends of Greece in that lively and richly
  illustrated volume which reminds us of the
  importance of Greek mythology in the history of
  mankind.