WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Learning more about the Bard Honors English III Miss Diorio

ABOUT HIS LIFE   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

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

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

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

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 "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.