Shakespeare’s Works Andrew Yekel, Jason Wasserman, Kevin Baik, Jon Gewirtzman, Hemi Park

Poetry written in the 1590’s Ex: –A Lover’s Complaint (1591) –Venus and Adonis (1593) –The Rape of Lucrece (1594) –The Phoenix and the Turtle (1599) –The Passionate Pilgrim (1599)

Comedy Shakespearean comedy tends to include: –A struggle of young lovers –Mistaken identities –A clever servant –Punning Ex: –A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1596) –As You Like It (1599) –The Comedy of Errors (1594)

Tragedy Once his son died in 1596, he started to write dark stories about death Ex: –Romeo and Juliet (1597) –Hamlet (1601) –Julius Caesar (1599) –King Lear (1606)

History Usually based on the lives of English kings Ex: –King John (1596) –Edward III (1596) –Richard II, III (1595) –Henry IV, V, VI, VIII (1599) –Sir Thomas More (1591)

Writing Style Wrote in stylized writing for the time Plays were written in iambic pentameter –Emphasis on every second syllable, five per line He wrote his plays as quarto text –A paper folded in half and then in half again

Quotes A lot of his quotes are well-known Ex: –“To be, or not to be, that is the question.” Hamlet Act 3, scene 1, –“Et tu, Brute?” Julius Caesar (III, i, 77) –“O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo Romeo and Juliet Act 2, scene 2, 33-49

Facts Shakespeare himself acted in a number of roles including: –The ghost in Hamlet –Old Adam in As You Like It Hamlet is his longest play –The shortest is The Comedy of Errors 13 Plays were set in Italy He wrote more about birds than any other writers

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