Learning more about the Bard English II Miss Diorio WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Learning more about the Bard English II Miss Diorio

ABOUT HIS LIFE 1564-1616 Stratford-upon-Avon, England Married Anne Hathaway and had 3 Children Susanna Hamnet and Judith Wrote almost 40 plays (comedies, histories, tragedies) Over 150 sonnets 5 epic poems

HIS COMEDIES All's Well That Ends Well Much Ado about Nothing As You Like It Comedy of Errors Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice Merry Wives of Windsor Much Ado about Nothing Taming of the Shrew Tempest Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona Winter's Tale Midsummer Night’s Dream

HIS HISTORIES Cymbeline Henry IV, Part I Henry IV, Part II Henry V Henry VI, Part I Henry VI, Part II Henry VI, Part III Henry VIII King John Pericles Richard II Richard III

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

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Comedy written in 1598 Set in Messina, a port city in Sicily, Italy Sicily is ruled by Aragon at the time of the play No deaths? And a happy ending? What??? Plot centers around two couples Benedick and Beatrice Claudio and Hero

IAMBIC PENTAMETER An iamb is one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (2 syllables total) Between Instead 5 iambs=10 syllables=1 line of iambic pentameter For the most part, Shakespeare writes completely in iambic pentameter in his works Sonnet—14-line poem of iambic pentameter with rhyme scheme ababcdcdefefgg "To be, or not to be: that is the question". Hamlet Act III, Scene I "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Romeo and Juliet Act II, Scene II

IAMBIC PENTAMETER AND RHYME SCHEME PRACTICE Highlight all stressed syllables in each line. Hero: If it proves so, then a love goes by haps Some Cupid kills with arrows, and some with traps Beatrice: What fire’s in mine ear? can this be true? Stand I condemned for pride and scorn so much? Contempt, farewell, and maiden pride, adieu No glory does live on the back of such.