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  • + stinson Matthew Stinson 3 months ago
    @Girius Actually, I’d like to allow it freely for download but I’m afraid it’ll just encourage students to copy it and hand it in as homework. As is, I ask people to message me and get it by email.
  • + girus girus 4 months ago
    why don’t you share this presentation? it is absolutely fabulastic!

    cheers though. its a good material for my lessons. ☺
  • + stinson Matthew Stinson 11 months ago
    Slide 11 links to scenes from Macbeth and Hamlet on Youtube:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SiF9Hfkt68
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqryrC-9IDw
    The last slide is me playing with Shakespeare at Madame Tussaud’s.
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  1. SHAKESPEARE
  2. Getting Started
    • Finish this sentence
      • William Shakespeare was…
  3. Preview
    • Today’s lecture will look at four different aspects of William Shakespeare’s life and work
      • Who was Shakespeare?
      • What are his major works?
      • What is his influence on English?
      • What are some controversies about him?
  4. Shakespeare, the Man
  5. Shakespeare’s Beginnings
    • Born in a common household in 1564 and died in 1616
      • This period was called Elizabethan England
    • Married Anne Hathaway and had three children
        • He was 18 and she was 26
        • One of his children died
    • Shakespeare’s father’s house in Stratford
  6. Shakespeare’s Career
    • Became famous around 1592, when his plays came to London
    • Worked in an acting company, Lord Chamberlain’s Men, from 1594 until 1603
    • In 1603, formed a new acting group with his partners, the King’s Men
    • In 1599, Shakespeare and his partners opened a theatre on the River Thames, called the Globe
    • He wrote fewer plays after 1607 and retired soon after and returned to his hometown, Stratford
  7. The Globe Theatre
    • Was destroyed and rebuilt several times
    • Built as a round amphitheater for better sound inside
    • Had seating for both rich people and common people
    • Was a famous London landmark
  8. The Names of Shakespeare
    • Because of his fame, Shakespeare is known by names besides his given name William Shakespeare
    • These names include
      • The Bard of Avon
      • The Bard
    • Avon is Shakespeare’s birthplace and hometown – Stratford upon Avon
    • A bard is a writer and performer of songs and stories
  9. Shakespeare, the Writer
  10. What Did Shakespeare Write?
    • Shakespeare’s writing can be divided into two main varieties
    • Plays
      • Comedies
      • Histories
      • Tragedies
      • Romances
    • Sonnets
  11. Shakespeare’s Plays
    • Shakespeare wrote nearly 40 known plays
    • Some were based on well-known stories (Hamlet, for example) while others were original
    • His plays are written both as prose (stories) and as verse (poetry)
    • The plays often used a soliloquy – a long speech by a major character that shows the character’s inner feelings
    • Most of his plays were performed by men only!
  12. Greatest Plays of Shakespeare
    • Tragedies
      • Hamlet
      • Romeo and Juliet
      • Julius Caesar
      • King Lear
      • Othello
      • Macbeth
    • Histories
      • Henry V
    • Romances
      • The Tempest
    • Comedies
      • The Taming of the Shrew
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
      • All’s Well that Ends Well
  13. Shakespeare’s Sonnets
    • Shakespeare is also famous for writing 154 sonnets
    • A sonnet is a kind of English poem form that follows special rules
    • Most of his sonnets became famous after his death
  14. Sonnet Structure
    • A sonnet follows special rules
    • Sonnets consist of three sets of four lines (called quatrains) and a couplet (two lines) at the end
      • There are fourteen lines total
    • Shakespeare used iambic pentameter, meaning his poems (and even plays) had five beats per line
      • Like this: da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM
    • He used a special rhyme scheme (pattern)
      • Like this: abab cdcd efef gg
  15. Sonnet Themes
    • Shakespeare’s sonnets show different ideas – some are about love, others about sex, some about society
    • Some of his sonnets are parodies of sonnet forms
    • The sonnets also have “characters” that the poems are written about
      • The Fair Youth – a beautiful young man
      • The Dark Lady – a mysterious woman
      • The Rival Poet – a rival of Shakespeare’s, perhaps
  16. Sonnet 18
    • 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 some time declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest 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.
  17. Sonnet 130
    • My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
    • Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
    • If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
    • If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
    • I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
    • But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
    • And in some perfumes is there more delight
    • Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
    • I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
    • That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
    • I grant I never saw a goddess go;
    • My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
    • And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
    • As any she belied with false compare.
  18. Shakespeare and English
  19. Shakespeare’s Influence on English
    • Shakespeare is often considered the greatest English writer of all time
    • He influenced English in two ways
    • His first influence is on art
      • Theatre after Shakespeare copied many of his themes and characters, like the tragic hero with a flaw
      • Literature after Shakespeare became more psychological – just like Shakespeare’s soliloquies
    • His second influence is on the English language
  20. Shakespeare’s English
    • Shakespeare was a “wordsmith” – a creator of words
      • He introduced nearly 2,000 words into English
      • His phrases made him the most-quoted writer in English history
    • He also revitalized English by making it a language of art
      • Before Shakespeare, English was “losing” artistically to the Romance Languages and German
  21. Shakespearian Vocabulary
    • accused
    • addiction
    • amazement
    • assassination
    • backing
    • bandit
    • bedroom
    • courtship
    • critic
    • dawn
    • design
    • discontent
    • embrace
    • engagements
    • excitements
    • eyeball
    • fixture
    • glow
    • hint
    • luggage
    • ode
    • questioning
    • reinforcement
    • savagery
    • tardiness
    • watchdog
  22. Shakespeare’s Controveries
  23. Shakespeare’s Identity Questioned
    • There are three main arguments people have about Shakespeare’s identity
    • Did he have a mistress?
    • Was he secretly gay?
    • Did he really write all of his plays?
  24. Did Shakespeare Have a Mistress?
    • Some historians claimed that Shakespeare had a weak relationship with his wife Anne because she was older or even possibly because they were forced to marry because she was pregnant
    • Some people from Shakespeare’s time claimed that he was known to have affairs with women who came to his theatres
    • The sonnets he wrote about The Dark Lady are written about a married woman, a possible mistress of Shakespeare’s
  25. Was Shakespeare Gay?
    • Some people have claimed Shakespeare may have been gay
    • Some of his poems suggest male love
    • His first book of poems was dedicated with love to a young patron (sponsor), Henry Wriothesley
  26. Was Shakespeare Real?
    • Some people believe Shakespeare didn’t exist or could not have written all of his works
      • First, we know little about Shakespeare’s life – there’s not enough “proof” he did what we think he did
      • Second, he was a commoner but had a massive vocabulary and no higher education – how?
      • Third, some documents say Shakespeare died in 1604 but he kept writing plays afterwards – how?
      • Fourth, some historians and actors believe Shakespeare was actually a group of writers who wrote in secret
    • Any questions?
    The End

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