1. Presenting Shakespeare

2. Facts About Shakespeare: True or False

3. William Shakespeare lived from 1564-1616. True!
Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1564.
Shakespeare died in 1616 from unknown causes.
To John and Mary Shakespeare
Died at age 52

4. Shakespeare never married.
False!
Married Anne Hathaway in November of 1582.

5. Together, the couple had three children: Susanna, Hamnet, and Judith.
Anne was around years old at the time of the marriage. Shakespeare was around

6. During Shakespeare’s time, people who wrote plays were considered to be literary experts and were respected.
False!
Poets were highly respected and were seen as intellectual.

7. Shakespeare’s first play is believed to be King Henry the Sixth, Part One.
True!
This play was written around

8. Shakespeare never published any of his plays.
True!
His fellow actors posthumously published his work.
John Hemmings and Henry Condell in 1623

9. Shakespeare also wrote sonnets.
True!

10. Sonnets Sonnets are lyric poems that are fourteen lines long
Every other line rhymes for lines 1-12.
Lines 13 and 14 are a couplet and these lines rhyme.

11. Sonnets Sonnets are traditionally written in iambic pentameter.
The rhythm sound like a heartbeat.
The unstressed/stressed pattern sounds like, “da DUM, da DUM, da DUM”.