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Claudia Arias Grace Echegaray

Claudia Arias Grace Echegaray. William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon“. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than

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Claudia Arias Grace Echegaray

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  1. Claudia AriasGrace Echegaray William Shakespeare

  2. William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon“. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

  3. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564, probably on April 23. • His father was a glover by trade and his mother came from a prosperous local family. • Shakespeare attended Stratford grammar school, but he did not go on to study at university. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. • He retired to his hometown in 1600, where he died on April 23 , 1616.

  4. Career • He went to London where he did many jobs, including holding theatre-goers’ horses outside playhouses. He became an actor, and by 1952 he joined an important company of actors called The Lord Chamberlain’s Men and performed at court. His success as a dramatist grew. He mixed in high social circles.

  5. Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.

  6. Comedies: • All's Well That Ends Well‡ • As You Like It • The Comedy of Errors • Love's Labour's Lost • Measure for Measure • The Merchant of Venice • The Merry Wives of Windsor • A Midsummer Night's Dream • Much Ado About Nothing • Pericles, Prince of Tyre • The Taming of the Shrew • The Tempest • Twelfth Night • The Two Gentlemen of Verona • The Two Noble Kinsmen • The Winter's Tale* • Histories: • King John • Richard II • Henry IV, part 1 • Henry IV, part 2 • Henry V • Henry VI, part 1 • Henry VI, part 2 • Henry VI, part 3 • Richard III • Henry VIII† • Tragedies: • Romeo and Juliet • Coriolanus • Titus Andronicus • Timon of Athens • Julius Caesar • Macbeth • Hamlet • Troilus and Cressida • King Lear • Othello • Antony and Cleopatra • Cymbeline • Poems: • Shakespeare's Sonnets • Venus and Adonis • The Rape of Lucrece • The Passionate Pilgrim[e] • The Phoenix and the Turtle • A Lover's Complaint • Lost plays: • Love's Labour's Won • Cardenio

  7. An 1870 oil painting by Ford Madox • Hamlet withMel Gibson in 1990

  8. Why William Shakespeare is important? • A majority of his works were written on such basic human themes that they will endure for all time and must not be allowed to slip into the tragic oblivion of old age. • For example, the success of Shakespeare’s works helped to set the precedent for the evolution of modern dramas and plays. He is also credited with being one of the first writers to use any modern prose in his writings. • He wrote with fluidity of thought, word, rhythm, and sound. Often a single line would have several different meanings.

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