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Gymnázium, Obchodní akademie a Jazyková škola s právem státní jazykové zkoušky Hodonín. William Shakespeare – život a dílo. Who is the man?. 1. The greatest playwright of all times Dramatist and poet of Elizabethan England
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Gymnázium, Obchodní akademie a Jazyková škola s právem státní jazykové zkoušky Hodonín William Shakespeare – život a dílo
The greatest playwright of all times • Dramatist and poet of Elizabethan England • Author of a lot of well-known plays, e. g. love tragedy Romeo and Juliet • Person who spent his life in London and Stratford-upon-Avon • Author associated with the Globe Theatre in London • Playwright followed by many other dramatists
His time • Elisabeth I on the throne (for 44 years) • daughter of Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn (executed when Elisabeth was only 2 years old) – Tudor dynasty • Executed her rival cousin – Mary, Queen of Scots • Virgin Queen – never married • Defensive policy, stability • Supported English drama – • W. Shakespeare + Christopher Marlowe • buried at Westminster Abbey, London 2
His life 3 • born on 23rd April 1564 in Stratford-upon- Avon in the family of glove-maker
4 • native house inside
1582 - married Anne Hathaway (8 years older than him) from nearby Shottery • 3 children (Susanna, twins Hamnet –died in childhood and Judith) 6
1593 - Christopher Marlowe killed – Shakespeare´s rival – dramatist, poet • 1594 - Sh. joins the Lord Chamberlain´s company, later King´s Men – playing company in London, Sh. = actor, playwright, part owner of the company • 1599 - Globe Theatre opened, London, on the south bank of the Thames
1603 – death of Elizabeth I King James I • 1605 – gunpowder plot – Guy Fawkes • 1610 – Shakespeare retired to New Place = his house in Stratford, Sh. rich person • 1616 - death of Shakespeare on 23rd April (on his birthday) in Stratford-upon- Avon
8 • buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford- upon-Avon
Stratford today • Royal Shakespeare Theatre - owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company • plays only Sh.´s plays 9
memorial to Sh., Stratford • Sh. sitting on the top, surrounded by 4 his characters – Hamlet, Falstaff, Lady Macbeth, Prince Hal 10
Shakespeare´s works • Poetry – sonnets • Plays – comedies • tragedies • histories = historical plays
Poetry • Sonnets = 14 lines in a poem • 154 sonnets, themes – love, beauty, time, etc. • 1609 – first published collection of his sonnets
Plays - comedies • A Midsummer Night´s Dream (Sen noci svatojánské) • As You Like It (Jak se vám líbí) • Twelfth Night (Večer tříkrálový) • Much Ado About Nothing (Mnoho povyku pro nic) • The Merry Wives of Windsor (Veselé paničky windsorské) • The Merchant of Venice (Kupec benátský) • The Taming of the Shrew (Zkrocení zlé ženy) • The Comedy of Errors (Komedie plná omylů) etc.
Plays - tragedies • Romeo and Juliet • Macbeth • Hamlet • Othello • King Lear • Julius Caesar etc.
Historical plays • Richard II • Richard III • Henry IV • Henry V • Henry VI • Henry VIII etc.
“To be or not to be, that is the question.“ Who said that? Hamlet (Sh.´s tragedy)
Použité zdroje • William Shakespeare[Pohlednice]. Sevenoaks, Kent: J. Salmon Ltd. [nedat.] • Elisabeth I, Darnley. [cit. 15. 12. 2012]. Dostupné na: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Darnley_stage_3.jpg 3. Shakespeare´s Birthplace from the garden, Stratford-upon-Avon [Pohlednice].Sevenoaks, Kent: J. Salmon Ltd.[nedat.] 4. FOX, L. The Shakespeare Anniversary Book. Norwich: Jarrold and Sons Limited, 1964. s. 8. 5. FOX, L. The Shakespeare Anniversary Book. Norwich: Jarrold and Sons Limited, 1964. s. 10. 6. Anne Hathaway´s Cottage, Shottery, Stratford-upon-Avon [Pohlednice]. Sevenoaks, Kent: J. Salmon Ltd.[nedat.] 7. Southwark reconstructed globe. [cit. 15. 12. 2012]. Dostupné na:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Southwark_reconstructed_globe.jpg 8. STEWARDSON, M. Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon [Pohlednice]. Worcester: Lithographics Ltd, 1989.
9. River Avon and Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon [Pohlednice]. Sevenoaks, Kent: J. Salmon Ltd.[nedat.] 10. The Gower Memorial to Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon [Pohlednice]. Sevenoaks, Kent: J. Salmon Ltd.[nedat.]