William Shakespeare

1. William Shakespeare

3. Elizabethan England

4. The age of Shakespeare was a great time in English history. The reign of Elizabeth (1558 - 1603) saw England emerge as the leading naval and commercial power of the Western world. Elizabeth I's England consolidated its position with the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, and firmly established the Church of England (begun by her father, Henry VIII, after a dispute with the Pope). Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh sent colonists eastward in search of profit. In trade, might, and art, England established an envious preeminence. At this time, London was the heart of England, reflecting all the vibrant qualities of the Elizabethan Age. It was in this atmosphere that London became a leading center of culture as well as commerce. Its dramatists and poets were among the leading literary artists of the day; this is the environment in which Shakespeare lived and wrote.

5. London in the 16th century underwent a transformation. Its population grew 400% from 1500 to 1600, swelling to nearly two hundred thousand people in the city proper and outlying region by the time an immigrant from Stratford came to town. A rising merchant middle class was carving out a productive livelihood, and the economy was booming. • In the 1580s, the writings of the University Wits (Marlowe, Greene, Lyly, Kyd, and Peele) defined the London theatre. Though grounded in medieval/Jacobean roots, these men produced new dramas and comedies using Marlowe's styling of blank verse. Shakespeare outdid them all; he combined the best traits of Elizabethan drama with classical sources, enriching the admixture with his imagination and wit.

6. Shakespeare's Globe

7. Globe Theatre, enlarged copy of a 1612 engraving

8. View of London by J.C. Visscher, from Londinum Florentiss[i]ma Britanniae Urbs, 1616

9. "Old Globe in Shakespeare's day," illustration by A. Forestier, Illustrated London News, 1910; the performance portrayed has been identified as one of the parts of Henry IV

10. Sketch of the interior of the Swan Theatre, by Johannes de Witt, as copied by Aernout van Buchel, c. 1596

11. International Shakespeare Globe Theatre

13. Romeo and Juliet

14. Romeo and Juliet

15. Synopsis: • "What's in a name huh?You see there's this guy and he loves this girl right? The girl, she loves the guy, okay? You wid me so far? So far so rom-com, right?Wrong. You see this guy's family and this girl's family don't get along, capiche?I mean REALLY don't get along.And when this guy's family and this girl's family find out what's going on, well...Let's just say there's going to be A SITUATION." • Love huh? It'll kill you every time. • Rated NC-17. Contains scenes of macho posturing and inappropriate use of a balcony. • "Would have made a great musical!"- Francis Pentangelo

19. Marriage certificateWilliam Shaxpeare to marry one Anna Whately, in Temple Grafton, Warwickshire.

20. Titus Andronicus

21. The Taming of the Shrew

22. A Midsummer Night's Dream

23. The Merchant of Venice

24. Othello

25. Othello

26. Macbeth

27. The Tempest

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29. Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee so?Mightst thou perceive austerely in his eyeThat he did plead in earnest? yea or no?Look'd he or red or pale, or sad or merrily?What observation madest thou in this caseOf his heart's meteors tilting in his face? • … • ADRIANA • Why, man, what is the matter? • DROMIO OF SYRACUSE • I do not know the matter: he is 'rested on the case.

30. The Comedy of Errors SCENE II. The house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus.

31. OBERON • This falls out better than I could devise.But hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyesWith the love-juice, as I did bid thee do? • PUCK • I took him sleeping,--that is finish'd too,--And the Athenian woman by his side:That, when he waked, of force she must be eyed. • Enter HERMIA and DEMETRIUS

32. A Midsummer Night's Dream SCENE II. Another part of the wood

33. HamletO príncipe da Dinamarca Daniela Ap. Vendramini Zanella Classes at Universidade de Sorocaba SP, Brasil

34. Hamlet: Prince of Denmark

35. Act 1, Scene 1: Elsinore. A platform before the castle.Act 1, Scene 2: A room of state in the castle.Act 1, Scene 3: A room in Polonius' house.Act 1, Scene 4: The platform.Act 1, Scene 5: Another part of the platform. Act 2, Scene 1: A room in POLONIUS' house.Act 2, Scene 2: A room in the castle. Act 3, Scene 1: A room in the castle.To be or not to be Act 3, Scene 2: A hall in the castle.Act 3, Scene 3: A room in the castle.Act 3, Scene 4: The Queen's closet. Act 4, Scene 1: A room in the castle.Act 4, Scene 2: Another room in the castle.Act 4, Scene 3: Another room in the castle.Act 4, Scene 4: A plain in Denmark. Act 4, Scene 5: Elsinore. A room in the castle.Act 4, Scene 6: Another room in the castle.Act 4, Scene 7: Another room in the castle.Morte de Ofelia Act 5, Scene 1: A churchyard.Act 5, Scene 2: A hall in the castle. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Shakespeare homepage | Hamlet

36. Act I, scene iv. Hamlet sees the ghost of his father. 1835

37. Act I, scene v. The ghost and Hamlet on the battlement. 1843

38. Act II, scene ii. Hamlet and Polonius. No date.

39. Act III, scene i. Hamlet reproaches Ophelia. No date

40. Act III, scene ii. The play-scene. 1838.

41. Act III, scene ii. Hamlet and Guildenstern. No date.

42. Act III Scene IV morte de Polonio • QUEEN GERTRUDE What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me?Help, help, ho!LORD POLONIUS [Behind] What, ho! help, help, help!HAMLET [Drawing] How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!Makes a pass through the arras • LORD POLONIUS [Behind] O, I am slain!Falls and dies • QUEEN GERTRUDE O me, what hast thou done?HAMLET Nay, I know not:Is it the king?QUEEN GERTRUDE O, what a rash and bloody deed is this!HAMLET A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother,As kill a king, and marry with his brother.

43. Act III Scene IV morte de Polonio • x

44. Act III, scene iv. Hamlet and Gertrude. 1834.

45. Act IV, scene v. Ophelia's madness. 1834.

46. Act IV, scene vii. The death of Ophelia. 1843.

47. Act V, scene i. Hamlet and Laertes fight in the grave. 1843.

48. Act V, scene ii. The death of Hamlet. 1843

49. Act III Scene 1 • To be or not to be

50. To be, or not to be Act III Scene 1 • To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummationDevoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause: there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life;