Shakespeare

Shakespeare Born April 1564 Died April 1616, on his birthday.

Shakespeare Early Life: Born in a town called Stratford-upon-Avon

Shakespeare Father was a glover and a city alderman He attended the local grammar school, the King’s New School; his father’s position, meant he could attend at no fee

Shakespeare The education was largely based on teaching the students Latin grammar and literature. It is here where he was first introduced to drama, specifically the Latin comedies which would have been part of the regular curriculum.

Married Ann Hathaway in 1582 at the aged of 18, she was 26 Shakespeare Marriage and Family Married Ann Hathaway in 1582 at the aged of 18, she was 26

Married Ann Hathaway in 1582 at the aged of 18, she was 26 Shakespeare Marriage and Family Married Ann Hathaway in 1582 at the aged of 18, she was 26

He had a daughter, Susanna (1583), and twins Judith and Hamnet (1585). Shakespeare Marriage and Family He had a daughter, Susanna (1583), and twins Judith and Hamnet (1585).

Shakespeare Marriage and Family Hamnet die at the age of eleven. Believed that the lose of his son would be the inspiration for the play “Hamlet” Unusually heavy subject matter. The questioning of life and death Questions of Moral choices

Shakespeare Marriage and Family Several comedies including “Twelfth Night,” “Comedy of Errors” feature twins who are separated and then find a happy way to re-unite

Shakespeare Theatre Career First produced plays was the history play, King Henry VI By 1598 was credited with over a dozen plays.

Shakespeare Theatre Career Wrote Three Kinds of Plays

Shakespeare Theatre Career Comedies

Shakespeare Theatre Career 2) Tragedies

Shakespeare Theatre Career 3) Histories

Shakespeare 154 Sonnets Theatre Career Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Shakespeare Iambic Pentameter Parts of a Shakespeare Play Iambic Pentameter a commonly used type of metrical line in traditional English poetry and verse drama. The term describes the rhythm that the words establish in that line

Shakespeare Iambic Pentameter Parts of a Shakespeare Play Iambic Pentameter An iambic measure is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The rhythm can be written as: da DUM

da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM Shakespeare Parts of a Shakespeare Play Iambic Pentameter The da-DUM of a human heartbeat is the most common example of this rhythm. A standard line of iambic pentameter is five iambic feet in a row: da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM

Shakespeare Parts of a Shakespeare Play Iambic Pentameter

Shakespeare Soliloquies Parts of a Shakespeare Play Soliloquies a device often used in drama when a character speaks to himself or herself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience

Shakespeare… Fraud?

Fraud? Shakespeare Uneducated vs. Heavy concepts Different Signatures

Fraud? Shakespeare Suspects

Fraud? Shakespeare Suspects - Christopher Marlow

Fraud? Shakespeare Suspects – Amelia Bassano Lanier aka “the Dark Lady”

Fraud? Shakespeare Suspects - Sir Edward De Vere