William Shakespeare 1564-1616

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William Shakespeare1564-1616

• Macbeth

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Personal Details

• 1564 - Born
• 1582 - Married Anne Hathaway
• 1592 Career had begun
• 1599 Shakespeare and friends build The
• Globe
• 1603 1610 Bubonic Plague
• 1616 - Died

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WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?
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WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?

• Reason 1
• GREATEST WRITER IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH
  LANGUAGE!

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WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?

• Reason 2
• HE WROTE 37 OF THE MOST POPULAR PLAYS IN THE
  HISTORY OF THE WORLD.

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Macbeth

• Shortest tragedy
• Bloodiest tragedy

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The Globe Theatre
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The Globe Theatre
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The Globe Theatre
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WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?

• Reason 3
• HE WROTE 154 SONNETS.

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WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?

• Side note
• What is a sonnet?
• 14 lines
• rhyme scheme
• iambic pentameter

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The Sonnetiambic pentameter

• Shall I compare thee to a summers day?
• Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
• Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks

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The Sonnet

• 154 sonnets of 14 lines of iambic pentameter
• 2, 156 lines of iambic pentameter

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WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?

• REASON 4
• Because he thought and felt like we do today.
• All the world's a stage,And all the men and
  women merely players.They have their exits and
  their entrances,And one man in his time plays
  many parts,