William Shakespeare Macbeth
Personal Details Born Married Anne Hathaway 1592 – Career had begun 1599 – Shakespeare and friends build The Globe 1603 – 1610 – Bubonic Plague Died
WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?
Reason #1: GREATEST WRITER IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!
WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE? Reason #2: HE WROTE 37 OF THE MOST POPULAR PLAYS IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
Macbeth Shortest tragedy Bloodiest tragedy
The Globe Theatre
WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE? Reason #3: HE WROTE 154 SONNETS.
WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE? Side note: What is a sonnet? 14 lines rhyme scheme iambic pentameter
The Sonnet iambic pentameter Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks
The Sonnet 154 sonnets of 14 lines of iambic pentameter = 2, 156 lines of iambic pentameter
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,