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Lived about 51 years Wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets

Lived about 51 years Wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets

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Lived about 51 years Wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets

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  1. Lived about 51 years • Wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets • Almost four hundred years after Shakespeare's death there are 15 million pages referring to him on Google. (FYI - There are 132 million for God, 2.7 million for Elvis Presley, and coming up on Shakespeare's heels, George W Bush with 14.7 million) • Macbeth is considered the most frequently performed play, a production occurs somewhere in the world every 4 hours • His plays have been translated into over 30 different languages and his sonnets over 80 • Shakespeare’s plays are globally produced more often than any other playwright in the history of theatre.

  2. Twelfth Night

  3. Twelfth Night

  4. HAMLET • “Funny Boy” a flop musical inside the musical “The Producers” • “Rockabye Hamlet” • February of 1976…7 performances • Prequel to Hamlet: “Gertrude and Claudius” by John Updike

  5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream Movies: Yellow Sky Forbidden Planet Tempest (2002)

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