The Man , His Work and His Legacy

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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

Shakespeare’s EnglandQueen 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

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)- The Globe Theatre in London was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613 - A modern reconstruction of the Globe, named "Shakespeare's Globe", opened in 1997 c.230 m from the site of the original theatre.

His work - Plays

COMEDIESAll's Well That Ends WellAs You Like ItComedy of ErrorsLove's Labour's LostMeasure for MeasureMerchant of VeniceMerry Wives of WindsorMidsummer Night's DreamMuch Ado about NothingTaming of the ShrewTempestTwelfth NightTwo Gentlemen of VeronaWinter's Tale

HISTORY PLAYSHenry IV, Part I

Henry IV, Part IIHenry VHenry VI, Part IHenry VI, Part IIHenry VI, Part III

Henry VIIIKing JohnPericlesRichard II

Richard III

TRAGEDIESAntony and Cleopatra

CoriolanusCymbelineHamletJulius CaesarKing Lear

MacbethOthelloRomeo and JulietTimon

of AthensTitus AndronicusTroilus and Cressida

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

Sonnets - features Petrarca (known in English as Petrarch) - the most famous early sonneteerThe 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.

Shakespearean sonnets 14 lines 3 quatrains and the final couplet rhyme pattern : abab cdcd efef gg iambic pentameter

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date:Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

154 sonnets divided into 3 large groups:1-17 – marriage and procreation sonnets18-126 –addressed to a ’’Fair Youth’’ 127- 154 – addressed to a Dark Lady

His legacy Shakespeare is the most quoted writer in the history of the English-speaking worldafter the various writers of the Bible, and many of his quotations and neologismshave 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.

His legacy He invented over 1700 of our common words by

changing nouns into verbs, and verbs 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...)

Events celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday in Serbia

Winter’s Tale28/4/2014 20.15

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