1. William Shakespeare 1564-1616 Macbeth

5. Personal Details 1564 - Born 1582 - Married Anne Hathaway 1592 – Career had begun 1599 – Shakespeare and friends build The Globe 1603 – 1610 – Bubonic Plague 1616 - Died

6. WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?

7. Reason #1: GREATEST WRITER IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!

8. WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE? Reason #2: HE WROTE 37 OF THE MOST POPULAR PLAYS IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.

9. Macbeth Shortest tragedy Bloodiest tragedy

10. The Globe Theatre

13. WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE? Reason #3: HE WROTE 154 SONNETS.

14. WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE? Side note: What is a sonnet? 14 lines rhyme scheme iambic pentameter

15. 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

16. The Sonnet 154 sonnets of 14 lines of iambic pentameter = 2, 156 lines of iambic pentameter

17. 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,