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William shakespeare

William shakespeare. Carmine Congiu. The life. William Shakespare was born at Stratford on Avon in April 1564 He was the eldest son He married Anne Hathaway whan he was only eightenn and she was twenty-six he had three children: Susanna and twins  Hamnet  and Judith

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William shakespeare

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  1. William shakespeare Carmine Congiu

  2. The life William Shakesparewasborn at Stratford on Avon in April 1564 Hewas the eldest son Hemarried Anne Hathawaywhanhewasonlyeightenn and shewastwenty-six he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith Hedaid in 1616

  3. Education • Probably attended King’s New School in Stratford • Educated in: • Rhetoric • Logic • History • Latin

  4. London and theatrical career It is generally believed he arrived in London in the mid- to late 1580s  It is not known exactly when Shakespear began writing By 1592, there is evidence William Shakespeare earned a living as an actor and a playwright in London and possibly had several plays produced. By the early 1590s, documents show William Shakespeare was a managing partner in the Lord Chamberlain's Men, an acting company in London

  5. By 1597, 15 of the 37 plays written by William Shakespeare were published. In 1599 his company built the globe Theatre, wheremost of hisplayswereperformed. Between 1595 and 1956 hewrotehistoricaldramas Seven yearsafterhisdeath some of hisfriendsandefellowactorspublishedanedition of thirtysix of the theplays in one volume; the First Folio

  6. Shakespeares’s sonnets; the form The sonnetswerepublished in 1609 Shakespeare didn’t use the italianform, anoctave and a sestet The themes and the addressees Sonnetsprobablycirculatedamongsthis private friends The 1609 publicationincluded 154 sonnets The sonnets can bedividedintotwosection. The first ( probablyShakspeare’s youngpatron ) isorganizedasfollows : 1)sonnets I to XVIII the teme of increase2)sonnets XVIII to CXXVI : these deal withdifferenttopics;amongthem the poet’s warningsabout the destructivepower of time and moralweakness.

  7. The style The style of the sonnetsischaracterizedby a richvividdescriptivelanguage The poetlikesto put a grandlyLatinateadjectivewithanAnglo-Saxosmmoun” The poetplayswithantonyms and homonyms and employs the “copulettie”,thatis a thematicallyimportant word whichisrepeated in the couplet fromone or more of the first twelvelines of a sonnet

  8. Shall I compare thee Willam Shakespeare sonnet XVIII 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 dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed. 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.

  9. ANALYSES OF QUATRAIN First quatrain:The first line do the comparison of the youth with a summer day But the second line says that the youth is more perfect than a summer day. Secondquatrain: This quatrain details how the summer can be imperfect, traits that the youth does not possess. The fifth line personifies the sun as "the eye of heaven" which is sometimes too scorchingly hot. According to line 7, all beautiful things (fair means beautiful) sometimes decline from their state of beauty or perfection by chance accidents or by natural events. ThirdQuatrain: This quatrain explains that the youth will possess eternal beauty and perfection. Line 11 says that death will not conquer life. Shakespeare realized that the sonnet is able to achieve an eternal status, and that one could be immortalized within it. The Final couplet : The couplet is easy to interpret: these verses celebrate the youth and continually renew the youth's life.

  10. Metricalanalysis It is written in the sonnet style that Shakespeare preferred, 14 lines long with three quatrains (four rhymed lines) and a couplet (a pair of rhymed lines). Trhymescheme: ABAB-CDCD-EFEF-GG Vividlanguage .

  11. Is it true? Interestingly, not everyone is willing to accept the role of Sonnet 18 as the ultimate English love poem We know nothing of the beloved’s form or height or hair or eyes or bearing, nothing of her character or mind, nothing of her. This 'love poem' is actually written not in praise of the beloved, as it seems, but in praise of itself. What do you think?

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