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Presenting Shakespeare

Presenting Shakespeare. Facts About Shakespeare: True or False. William Shakespeare lived from 1564-1616. True! Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1564. Shakespeare died in 1616 from unknown causes. Shakespeare never married. False!

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Presenting Shakespeare

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  1. Presenting Shakespeare

  2. Facts About Shakespeare: True or False

  3. William Shakespeare lived from 1564-1616. • True! • Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1564. • Shakespeare died in 1616 from unknown causes.

  4. Shakespeare never married. • False! • Married Anne Hathaway in November of 1582.

  5. Together, the couple had three children: Susanna, Hamnet, and Judith. Anne was around 25-26 years old at the time of the marriage. Shakespeare was around 17-18.

  6. During Shakespeare’s time, people who wrote plays were considered to be literary experts and were respected. • False! • Poets were highly respected and were seen as intellectual.

  7. Shakespeare’s first play is believed to be King Henry the Sixth, Part One. • True! • This play was written around 1589-1590.

  8. Shakespeare never published any of his plays. • True! • His fellow actors posthumously published his work.

  9. Shakespeare also wrote sonnets. • True!

  10. Sonnets • Sonnets are lyric poems that are fourteen lines long • Every other line rhymes for lines 1-12. • Lines 13 and 14 are a couplet and these lines rhyme.

  11. Sonnets • Sonnets are traditionally written in iambic pentameter. • The rhythm sound like a heartbeat. • The unstressed/stressed pattern sounds like, “da DUM, da DUM, da DUM”.

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