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Shakespeare’s Writing. By: Allie Auriemma , Brooke Helms, Bill Roditski , and Sean Terrinoni. The Poems. Although Shakespeare was most known for his plays, poetry was best to have for his reputation.
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Shakespeare’s Writing By: Allie Auriemma, Brooke Helms, Bill Roditski, and Sean Terrinoni
The Poems • Although Shakespeare was most known for his plays, poetry was best to have for his reputation. • Tradition has it that Shakespeare wrote his two long poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, during a period of forced unemployment in 1592–94, when an outbreak of the plague closed London’s theaters. • Like his plays his poetry left a big impact in today's society.
Shakespeare’s Poems • There’s no single best way to experience the works of William Shakespeare. Attending a good performance may bring you closest to the plays as Shakespeare intended them. Reading the plays or poems, however, gives you the chance to revisit key passages, and to find new meanings and new questions each time. And—if you have the opportunity—there’s nothing like getting on stage and performing in one of Shakespeare’s plays yourself.
The Publications of Shakespeares Plays. • A popular like Shakespeare sees his plays published in inexpensive, cheaply produced called quartos, with or without his permission. • After Shakespeare's death some of his colleagues published the 1,623 first folio collection of 33 of his plays. • The first folio is our only source for 18 plays.
Shakespeare’s Plays • A Midsummer Night’s Dream • In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare shows the effects that love has on a group of people. • There are a few couples in the play that are in love, but this is interfered with by a hobgoblin named Puck • Puck is ordered by his master, King Oberon, to put a love potion upon somebody. But, Puck mistakenly spells the wrong man. • The play is a comedy, written to humorously show the relationship between a group of people, falling in and out of love.
Shakespeare's Plays • Romeo and Juliet • Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a complicated and somewhat violent story about two young people, Romeo and Juliet, who fall in love and die because of it. • Juliet’s family would not approve of her being with Romeo, but once Romeo dies, Juliet takes a potion to kill herself so she would never need to be with anybody but Romeo. • This play is classified as a tragedy, because of the tale of the two lovers and the violence of their deaths.
Shakespeare’s Language • Even the people that are really good at reading complicated sentences often have trouble understanding Shakespeare’s words. • Most of Shakespeare’s words are still used today. • In the theater, actors helped solve the meanings of the difficult words.
Shakespeare’s Language • Most of his sentence structures are defined in terms of his images. • The New Folger Library Shakespeare editions helps readers understand Shakespeare's language with images and notes. • The language of Shakespeare’s poems is highly compressed and highly structured.
Works Cited • “Shakespeare’s Works-Folger Shakespeare Library.” –Folger Shakespeare Library. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Apr. 2012. http://www.folger.edu/Content/Discover-Shakespeare/Shakespeares-Works/.
