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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare. Also known as “That boring guy who writes stuff we don’t like”. Who was William Shakespeare?. Born in 1564 in a city called Stratford-Upon-Avon in England. Married to Anne Hathaway in 1582. He was 18 and she was 26. Their first child, Susanna was born six months later

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William Shakespeare

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  1. William Shakespeare Also known as “That boring guy who writes stuff we don’t like”

  2. Who was William Shakespeare? • Born in 1564 in a city called Stratford-Upon-Avon in England. • Married to Anne Hathaway in 1582. He was 18 and she was 26. Their first child, Susanna was born six months later • They also had twins, Hamnet and Judith in 1592. Hamnet died in 1596.

  3. The Bard! • Credited with writing 37 plays • Some of his most famous works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Othello. • He is also credited with writing 154 sonnets

  4. The Sonnets • The subject of sonnets 1-126 is a fair young man, presumably a friend or wealthy patron of Shakespeare’s. These are the love poems and, some make a case that there is a homosexual relationship between the bard and the young man. • The other main muse in his sonnets is The Dark Lady. This could be a reference to a woman who is not blonde or a woman of color, an African woman.

  5. SONNET 18

  6. Shakespearean Sonnet • An 18 line stanza written in iambic pentameter, that employs the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg, and can be divided into three quatrains and a couplet.

  7. Iambic Pentameter • Line of poetry that can be divided into 5 metric feet with alternately unstressed and stressed syllables. Shall I/ compare/ thee to/ a sum/ mer’s day Thou art/ more lov/ ly and/ more temp/ orate

  8. SONNET 29

  9. Paraphrase • A restatement of a text in another form or other words, often to simplify or clarify meaning.

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