1. Shakespeare

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

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

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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

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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.

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

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

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

9. 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

10. 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

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

12. Shakespeare
Theatre Career
Wrote Three Kinds of Plays

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Theatre Career
Comedies

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Theatre Career
2) Tragedies

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Theatre Career
3) Histories

16. 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.

17. 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

18. 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

19. da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM
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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

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Parts of a Shakespeare Play
Iambic Pentameter

21. 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

22. Shakespeare…
Fraud?

23. Fraud?
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Uneducated vs. Heavy concepts
Different Signatures

24. Fraud?
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Suspects

25. Fraud?
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Suspects - Christopher Marlow

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

27. Fraud?
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Suspects - Sir Edward De Vere