Shakespeare: Plays/Sonnets

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Shakespeare Plays/Sonnets

• By Harmeet, Shawn, Pravin, Jayden

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

• A sonnet is a poem which usually has about 14
  lines, and can have any rhyme scheme
• Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets
• 126 were about a young man
• 126-152 were about a dark lady

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Earl of Southampton

• His first 126 sonnets were about this young man.
• He had paid Shakespeare to write about him

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Different Types of Sonnets

• There are three main forms of sonnets that can be
  used. The reason there isn't just one is because
  they all differentiate in there rhyme schemes
  and that sets them apart.

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• The First Type of Sonnet is the Italian or
  Petrarchan Sonnet. The rhyme scheme is a b b a a
  b b a,
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  d d c d c d
• 
  c d c d c d
• 
  c d e c d e
• 
  c d e c e d
• 
  c d c e d c
• The second type of sonnet is the Spenserian
  Sonnet Its Rhyme scheme is a b a b b c b c c d
  c d e e
• Lastly the final one is the English or
  Shakespearian Sonnet. The rhyme Scheme is a b a b
  c d c d e f e f g g. This is the one Shakespeare
  used often.

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• Sonnet 18
• One of the most famous sonnets
• Linked between many sonnets
• He shares his feelings about a young man by
  comparing him to a summers day

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• Sonnet 73
• This was the 3rd sonnet out of 4 reflecting upon
  his age
• Influenced partly by Ovid's Metamorphoses

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• Sonnet 116
• Explains the marriage of minds not just the
  ceremony.
• Most quoted sequence about love
• Amazing background on each line, in depth thought
  

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Shakespeares Plays

• A play is a form of literature and is acted out
  with dialogue.
• Shakespeare wrote 37 Plays
• They advertised what the show was going to be
  about by waving flags. If the flag was black, it
  was a tragedy a white flag was a comedy and if
  they saw a red flag, it was a history play

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• Hamlet
• First published in 1603
• Hamlet wanted to avenge his fathers death, but
  Claudius was the king and was well protected
• It was written as a Tragedy, revenge tragedy
• Macbeth
• First published in 1623
• Struggle for Macbeth between his ambition and his
  sense of right and wrong
• This play was also written as a tragedy.

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• Midnight Summer dream
• First published in 1600
• This play was about love and how in the turn in
  events the person you fall in love with isn't who
  they seem to be. The love triangle in this play
  is a prime example of what happen.
• Written as a comedy , fantasy and also romance

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Shakespeare Theatre

• There were many theatres where Shakespeare
  performed his plays but the Globe Theatre was his
  main acting stage
• It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing
  company in London. It was destroyed by a fire and
  then later rebuilt.

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