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William Shakespeare
1564-1616
The Early Years
Born in Stratford-on-Avon
 No birth record is known
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 Accepted
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Born to credible parents
 John
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on April 23
was an alderman in town
Attended the grammar school in Stratford,
but did not attend college
Married Life
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At the age of 18 in
1582, married Anne
Hathaway who was
26
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Speculation of her
being 3 months
pregnant
In 1583, had a
daughter, Susanna
 In 1585, had twins,
Judith and Hamnet
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Shakespeare the writer
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Poet
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Sonnets
Playwright
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History
Comedy
Tragedy
Shakespeare’s History
Drama used to be a
main form of
education
 Shakespeare often
told the stories of
historical events such
as the lives of kings
and queens of
England and other
lands
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Shakespeare’s Comedy
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Comedy
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Play in which the character
rises from a low social
stature to a high social
stature based on a series
of events that can be
within or outside of his
control
Shakespeare’s Tragedy
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Tragedy
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When the character goes from a high social standing
to a low social standing by a series of unfortunate
events that can be out of his/her control or be of
his/her own making
Shakespeare’s Poetry
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Sonnet
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14-line highly-stylized
poem
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abab cdcd efef gg
Containing 3 quatrains
Followed by one
couplet
Sonnet 18
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 some time 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 wand`rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow`st:
So long as men can breath or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 130
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Hidden Meanings
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Most of Shakespeare’s sonnets were
dedicated
A
dark lady
 Mr. W. H.
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Some of his earlier works were dedicated
to the Earl of South Hampton, who paid
him to write Venus and Adonis and The
Rape of Lucrese
Shakespeare’s Bi-sexuality
Over 100 sonnets are dedicated to “the
fair man” that Shakespeare was
homosexual
 Intense friendship
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 Homoeroticism-
when two members of the
same gender share an intimate friendship that
is rarely seen outside a married couple
 Iago
and Othello
The Theater
Shakespeare’s
Theater was
The Globe
 Part owner of Lord
Chambelin’s Men
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Name changed to
Kings Men
The Conspiracy
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Several authors and scholars have
expressed disbelief that man we know as
Shakespeare wrote all the plays he wrote
 These
authors use the lack of historical proof
 Shakespeare never attended college
 Shakespeare never left England
 Most believe he could not read Latin
The Candidate
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Edward de Vere
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Earl of Oxford
Private tutors
 Knowledge of
Aristocratic life
 Similar lives
 Interest in Theaters
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But would have been
disgraceful