His life, works and Julius Caesar

1. William
Shakespeare
Fa 3 English activity

2. William Shakespeare was an English poet,
playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the
greatest writer in the English language and the
world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often
called England's national poet, and the "Bard of
Avon". His extant works, including
collaborations, consist of approximately 38
plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems,
and a few other verses, some of uncertain
authorship. His plays have been translated into
every major living language and are performed
more often than those of any other playwright.
He died on 23 April 1616 (aged 52)

4. On 28 November 1582 at Temple Grafton near Stratford, the
18-year-old Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, who was 26.
Two neighbours of Hathaway, Fulk Sandalls and John
Richardson, posted bond ensuring that no legal impediments
existed to the union. The ceremony may have been arranged in
some haste; their first daughter, Susanna, was born on 26 May
1583, six months later.
Twin children, a son, Hamnet, and a daughter, Judith, were
baptised on 2 February 1585. Hamnet died in 1596, Susanna in
1649 and Judith in 1662.

5. Who was he?
 Widely regarded as the greatest writer in
English Literature
 Poet and dramatist
 Wrote 37 plays: comedies, histories, tragedies
 Composed about 154 sonnets and a few
poems
 Started out as an actor

6. Life
 Born around April 23, 1564; 3rd of 8 children Family
lived in Stratford-on-Avon, a market town about 100
miles NW of London
 Father (John) a shopkeeper. A man of considerable
standing in Stratford. Served as Justice of the Peace
and High Bailiff (mayor)
 Attended grammar school, where he studied Latin,
grammar and literature, Rhetoric (the use of
language). No further formal education known
 Marriage to Anne Hathaway, 8 years older than he,
3 children: Susanna (1583), Judith and Hamnet
(twins, 1585)

7. Later life
 1594 - became shareholder in a company of actors
called Lord Chamberlain’s Men
 1599 - Lord Chamberlain’s Co. Built Globe Theater
where most of S. Play’s were performed
 1599 - Actor for Lord Chamberlain’s Men and
principal playwright for them
 1603 – James I became king of England; acting
company renamed King’s Men
 1610 – Shakespeare retired to Stratford-on-Avon
April 2
 1616 – died at the age of 52

8. William Shakespeare
Comedies
• All’s Well that Ends Well
• As You Like It
• Comedy of Errors
• Measure for Measure
• Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Taming of the Shrew
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Twelfth Night
• Merchant of Venice

9. William Shakespeare
Tragedies
• Julius Caesar
• Hamlet
• Macbeth
• Othello
• Romeo and Juliet
• King Lear

10. William Shakespeare
Histories
• King Henry V
• King John
• Richard II
• Richard III

11. Why is he still so famous?
 His plays portray recognizable people in situations we
experience in our lives: love, marriage, death,
mourning, guilt, the need to make difficult
choices, separation, reunion and reconciliation
 They do so with great humanity, tolerance, and
wisdom
 They are constantly fresh and can be adapted to the
place and time they are performed
 Their language is wonderfully expressive and
powerful
 They help us to understand what it is to be human,
and to cope with the problems of being so.

12. Language
 Used over 20,000 words in his works
 of his time only had 500 words. The average
writer uses 7,500
 The English Dictionary
 He’s credited with creating 3,000 words in the
English Oxford Dictionary
 He was by far the most important individual
influence on the development of the modern
English
 He invented lots of words that we use in our
daily speech

13. Words invented by the Bard
accommodation
amazement
assassination
baseless
bloody
bump
castigate
changeful
control (noun)
countless
courtship
critic
eventful
exposure
frugal
generous
gloomy
hurry
impartial
indistinguishable
invulnerable
laughable
lonely
majestic
misplaced
monumental
obscene
pious
premeditated
radiance
reliance
road
sportive
submerge
suspicious

14. Stratford-upon-Avon

15. The sonnets
Containing some of the greatest lyric poems in
English literature, Shakespeare’s Sonnets are not just
the easy love sentiments of "Shall I compare thee to
a summer's day." Many of the poems are bleak cries
of emotional torment and spiritual exhaustion. They
tell a story of the struggle of love and forgiveness
against anguish and despair. It is this tragic portrait
of human love that makes the sonnets immortal.

16. JULIUS CAESAR
BY WILLAM SHAKESPEARE

17. ABOUT THEAUTHOR
• THE ENGLISH WRITER AND POET WILLAM SHAKESPEARE IN
COINSTER TO BE THE BEST PLAYWRITTER AT AL THE TIME.HIS
LIFE IS SHROUDED IN A THICK MIST OF PRESUMPTION AND
DOUBTS . HE WAS BORN ON APRIL 22 1564 . HE WAS MARRIED
AT 18 & AFTER AT 25 YEARS OLD HE WROTE HIS FIRST PLAY HE
ALSO ACTED IN SOME OF ITS PLAYS. HE ONLY FINISHED
GRAMMER SCHOOL HE NEVER Went TO UNIVERSITY. THERE OVER
80 DIFFERENT TRANSLATER OF HIS PLAYS & POEM. THE OF
TRANSLATION OF SHAKESPEAR’S WORKES ALL OVER THE WORLD
IS SECOND ONLY TO THE BIBLE. MORE THAN 2500 DIFFERENT
WORDS ARE USE IN THE WORK OF SHAKESPEARE INCLUDING
THAT HE CREATE. MOST PEOPLE USE 2000 , 2500 IN SPEAKING &
WRITING, SO SHAKESPEARE USE TEN TIME THE NORMAL AMOUNT
OF WORDS.

19. CHARACTERS
• CAESAR
• CALPURINA
• MARCUS BRUTUS
• MARK ANTONY
• CASSIUS

20. DESCRIPTIONS
ABOUT MAIN CHARACTERS

21. JULIUS CAESAR
A GREAT ROMAN GENERAL& SENATOR. HE
WAS A GREAT KING WHO WAS
OVERCONFIDENT OF HIS POWER . HE WAS
GOOD AT HEART , AS HE WEPT WHEN THE
POOR’S CRIED . HE WAS BRAVE , &
COURAGEOUS. HE TRUSTED UPON HIS
FRIENDS WHO ACTUALLY WHERE THE
CONSPIRATORS OF HIS MURDER.

22. MARCUS BRUTUS
OF NOBLE HERITAGE : BRUTUS IS A ROMAN
NOBLEMAN AS WAS HIS FATHER.
SINCERE:BRUTUS TRULY BELIEVES THAT HIS
ROLE IN THE ASSASSINATION IS FOR THE
GOOD OF ROME.
NAÏVE:HE BELIEVES IN THE ESSENTIAL
GOODNESS OF THOSE AROUND HIM.
PHILOSOPHICAL:HIS PHILOSOPHIES GUIDE
HIS ACTION & DECISION.

23. CALPURINA
A ROMAN WOMAN & THE THIRD & LAST
WIFE OF JULIUS CAESAR.
SHE IS VERY CONCERNED FOR CAESAR.
NEVERTHELESS CAESAR’S AMBITION
ULTIMATELY CAUSES HIM TO
DISREGARDED HER ADVICE.

24. MARK ANTONY
MARK ANTONY PROVED HIMSELF A
CONSUMMATE POLITICALS USING GESTURE
& SKILLED RHETORIC TO HIS
ADVANTAGES.

25. CASSIUS
HE HAS CONTEMPT FOR CAESAR AND
ENVIES CAESAR’S POSITION.PRIOR TO THE
BATTLE AT PHILIPPI HE IS ACCUSSED BY
BRUTUS OF TAKING BRIBES.

26. LESSONINSHORT
• Caesar’s wife calpurnia sees a bad dream and asks caesar not to go to the
capitol .
• Most unnatural and horrid sights were seen by the watchman.
• A lioness gave birth in the streets . The sky rained blood on the capitol.
Graves opened and dead bodies came out of the graves.
• Fiery warriors fought on the cloud and ghost wandered and shrieked.
• Calpurnia says that these ill-omens signal death and disaster.
• Caesar is adamant on going out but relent and stays at home when
calpurnia begs on her knees.
• Decius brutus comes to take caesar to senate – house where the
conspirators are in ambush to murder caesar.
• Caesar describes that calpurnia saw in her dream blood rushing out of his
statue through a hundred spouts.
• Lusty romans were bathing there hands in caesar’s blood.
• Decius deliberately gives a flattering interpretation to calpurina dream.
He tells that her dream was fair and fortunate.

27. Calpurnia begs on her knees.

28. • Caesar’s blood will bring a new life and vitality to rome. Important
people will preserve caesar’s belongings as holy relics and memorials.
• Metellus cimber pray caesar to revoke the order of his brother’s exile.
• Caesar remains firm and chides cimber for his “low countesies”.
• Caesar is surrounded by the conspirators. Casca is the first to strike and
then follow the others.
• When caesar sees Marcus brutus stabbing him, caecarutters in disbelief.
“even you, brutus!”caesar dies.
• The conspirators cry. “liberty ! freedom ! tyranny is dead!
• Mark Antony makes peace with the conspirators but wants to be
satisfied with the reasons of Caesar's death.
• Brutus assures antony of his personal safety . He allows antony to speak
at caesar funeral after him.but he is not speak against.
• Brutus says that caesar was kill because he was ambitious.
• The mob was satisfied with his argument.

30. • Antony is left alone with the mob. He is a wonderfull orator who
knows how to arouse the basic sentiments and passions of the
mob.
• Antony creats a sympathy for caesar. He tries to prove that caesar
was not ambitious. He was offered the crown thrice but he
refused to accept it every time.
• Antony read his will. Caesar kept his private parks and orchards
open for the people.
• By this antony prove that caesar was not ambitious but the brutus
was liear.
• The people run after the conspirators and set out to burn their
houses.

32. SUMMARY
• A VERY INFLUENTIAL AND POWER SECTION ARE JEALOUS
OF THE RISING POWER AND GLORY OF JULIUS CEASAR.
CASSIUS A MASTER SCHEMER HATCHES A CONSPIRACY TO
ELIMINATE CAESAR. HE IS BACKED BY SEVERAL OTHER LIKE
CASCA AND CIMBER . TO GIVE LEGITIMACY TO THEIR DARK
DESIGN THEY FINALLY ROPE IN BRUTUS . BRUTUS IS A MOST
TRUSTED AND RESPECTED MAN IN ROME. BRUTUS, THE
IDEALIST JOINT THE CONSPIRACY FEELING THAT CAESAR’S
MURDER IS NECESSARY FOR THE FREEDOM OF ROME AND
REPUBLICANISM. IRONICALLY CAESAR IS MURDERED AT THE
FOOT OF HIS RIVAL POMPEY’S STATUE . ANTONY, A TRUSTED
FRIENDS AND CONFIDANT OF CAESAR IS A MASTER
MANIPULATOR AND A MATCHLESS ORATOR. HE AROUSES THE
BASIC PASSIONS OFF THE ROMAN MOB . HE IS ABLE TO
CREATE SYMPATHY FOR CAESAR AND DIRECT THE ANGER AND
HATRED OF THE MOB AGAINST THE CONSPIRATORS.