Trabajo sobre William Shakespeare. CEPA Paulo Freire. Fuenlabrada. Curso 2015-16.

1. “Bard of Avon”
WILLIAM
SHAKESPIRE
Vanessa PONCE CORBACHO
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Paulo Freire. ESO. Curso a Distancia II (Tarde)
Inglés. Trabajo Voluntario. 1ª Evaluación.

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“The Bard”. William Shakespire
William Shakespeare, Chandos Portrait
–John Tailor, about 1610–
William Shakespire was a Poet an artist and playwright, is considered to
be the most important writer in English language and one of the most famous of
the universal literature, and many people consider it the major playwright of all
the times.
He belongs of the Renaissance as in the Baroque. His nick names are
"Bard of Avon" "Swam of Avon" and "The Bard".
He was born on April 23rd 1564; He was baptized on April 26th 1564 in
Stratford, England, son of a prosperous merchant.
He studied in Education King's New School.
He was married to Anne Hathaway on November 28th, 1582, in
Worcester. William was 18 and Anne was 26. They had three children: Susana,
Hamnet and Jidith.
He created his company of theatre, installed in the Theatre of the Globe
from 1599.
His more famous works are Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Otelo, The King
Lear and The Merchant of Venice.
His pieces are represented more times and in major number of countries
that those of any another writer.
Many phrases of his works are used normally when we speak. It has been
studied very much on his life, questioning his sexuality, his religious affiliation
and the authorship of his works.

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The fundamental information that questions is how a servant who grew
in Stratford's illiterate family could write works as brilliant as Romeo and Juliet
or The Merchant of Venice.
The works of Shakespeare include topics as the war, the death, and the
love, giving him often a double meaning, probably for connotations of events
that happened in the plane of current importance or politics of the epoch.
First Folio, it’s the name attributed to the first publication on 1623 of the
collection of thirty six theatrical works of William Shakespeare whose real
original name is “Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies”.
Front page of the First Folio with portrait of William Shakespeare.

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Table of Contents from the First Folio
The printing of the First Folio was probably done between February 1622
and early November 1623.
Previously also it published in Quarto (Bad Q.-Good Q.), but in they were
less the works compiled here.
Comparison of the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy in the first three editions of Hamlet
COMEDIES HISTORIES TRAGEDIES
The Tempest King John Troilus and Cressida
The Two Gentlemen of Verona Richard II Coriolanus
The Merry Wives of Windsor Henry IV, Part 1 Titus Andronicus
Measure for Measure Henry IV, Part 2 Romeo and Juliet
The Comedy of Errors Henry V Timon of Athens
Much Ado About Nothing Henry VI, Part 1 Julius Caesar
Love's Labour's Lost Henry VI, Part 2 Macbeth
A Midsummer Night's Dream Henry VI, Part 3 Hamlet
The Merchant of Venice Richard III King Lear
As You Like It Henry VIII Othello
The Taming of the Shrew Antony and Cleopatra
All's Well That Ends Well Cymbeline
Twelfth Night
The Winter's Tale

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Finally, it’s interesting to comment a common mistake to think that he
died on April 23, 1616, the same day that he was born. Also it is a popular belief
that died the same day that Cervantes.
Our Royal Decree 307/1993 and the resolution of the General Conference
of the UNESCO, maximum international organization in the field of the culture
and the education, of November 15, 1995 declared on April 23 World Day of the
Book and of the Author's copyright.
In the text of the declaration there is specified that is chosen on April 23
for coincide in this date of the year 1616 death of Cervantes and William
Shakespeare, maximum exponents of the literature with Spanish and English
language.
Apparently, the mistake of thinking that they died the same day is
because in Spain already the correction of the calendar was applied established
in 1582 by the Dad Gregorio XIII, while in England juliano was continuing in
force the former calendar, slowed down then in near eleven days I concern of
the real time.
According to the correct calendar, Shakespire did not die on April 23; Die
on May 3, 1616, ten days after Cervantes. Really Cervantes did not die on the
23rd either; he died on the 22nd and was buried the following day.

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Consulted sources:
 http://cvc.cervantes.es/foros/leer_asunto1.asp?vCodigo=46683
 http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/s/shakespeare.htm
 https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrato_Chandos
 https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio
 https://retartalillas.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/shakespeare-%C2%BFfue-o-
no-fue-el-bardo-de-avon/
 http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/bard-of-avon/
 http://www.adelantandoelmundo.com/2014/06/murieron-shakespeare-y-
cervantes-el-23.html
 https://pitbox.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/william-shakespeare-y-su-epoca-
renacimiento-y-barroco/comment-page-1/