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The Man , H is W ork and H is L egacy

William Shakespeare (1564-1616). The Man , H is W ork and H is L egacy. The Man. Baptized on 26th April 1564 at the parish church in Stratford-upon-Avon Given allowance to marry Anne Hathaway (8 years his senior) in November 1582

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The Man , H is W ork and H is L egacy

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  1. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) The Man , His Workand His Legacy

  2. The Man • Baptized on 26th April 1564 at the parish church in Stratford-upon-Avon • Given allowance to marry Anne Hathaway • (8 years his senior) in November 1582 • In 1583 their daughter Suzanna was born and in 1585 the twins – Judith and Hamnet • In 1593 he appeared as the author of Venus • and Adonis • In 1594 as the author of The Rape of Lucrece • In 1599 he was a sharer, a part-owner of the Globe Theatre • In 1602 he bought some land in Stratford • 25th March 1616 he signed his will and died on 23rd April 1616 at the age of 53, buried in Stratford Church

  3. Shakespeare’s England • Queen Elizabeth I • (reigned 1558-1603) • -tolerant • had political wisdom • strong personality • childless • (the candidates for the heir of the throne were Earl of Essex and • James, King of Scotland, the son of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots) • ENGLAND – thinly populated (5,000,000) (today’s London 11mil) • towns and provinces were very rare and small • LONDON • only 200,000 inhabitants when Shakespeare came there) • all the gifted people flocked to London • people used to hunt where now the British Museum is

  4. Elizabethan Theatre • a few theatre buildings and only in London • (not approved by the Puritan city authorities) • performances held in noblemen’s residences, • but also in the streets, public squares, • church-yards, bear-baiting arenas • the text was the property of the actors’ companies • all the actors were men (young boys played female • characters) • TheGlobe Theatrein London was built in 1599 • by Shakespeare'splaying company, the Lord • Chamberlain's Menand was destroyed by fire • on 29 June 1613 • - A modern reconstruction of the Globe, named • "Shakespeare's Globe", opened in 1997 c.230m • from the site of the original theatre.

  5. His work - Plays

  6. His work - poetry • The Sonnets • A Lover's Complaint • The Rape of Lucrece • Venus and Adonis

  7. Sonnets - features Petrarca (known in English as Petrarch) - the most famous early sonneteer The structure of a typical Italian sonnet of this time included two parts that together formed a compact form of "argument". First, the octave (two quatrains), forms the "proposition", which describes a "problem", or "question", followed by a sextet (two tercets), which proposes a "resolution". Typically, the ninth line initiates what is called the "turn", or "volta", which signals the move from proposition to resolution. Rhyme pattern - a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a pattern became the standard for Italian sonnets. For the sestet there were two different possibilities: c-d-e-c-d-e and c-d-c-c-d-c. In time, other variants on this rhyming scheme were introduced, such as c-d-c-d-c-d.

  8. Shakespearean sonnets • 14 lines • 3 quatrains and the final couplet • rhyme pattern : abab cdcd efef gg • iambic pentameter 154 sonnets divided into 3 large groups: 1-17 – marriage and procreation sonnets 18-126 –addressed to a ’’Fair Youth’’ 127- 154 – addressed to a Dark Lady

  9. Hislegacy • Shakespeare is the most quoted writer in the history of the English-speaking world • after the various writers of the Bible, and many of his quotations and neologisms • have passed into everyday usage in English and other languages. • Great, forever modern plays and poetry • Proverbs: • Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. • The voice of parents is the voice of gods, • for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants. • To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.  • The course of true love never did run smooth. • Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.  • When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.  • All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

  10. His legacy • He invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, andverbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, • adding prefixes and suffixes, and devising words • wholly original • (addiction, advertising, amazement, bandit, bedroom, birthplace, • blanket, barefaced, blushing, champion, cold-blooded, control, • countless, dawn, discontent, excitement, fashionable, generous, • gloomy, gossip, lonely, luggage, torture, unreal, worthless...)

  11. Events celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday in Serbia Winter’s Tale 28/4/2014 20.15

  12. Thank you !!!

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