When, In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes
(Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29)
Composition and Vocals by Rufus Wainwright
William Shakespeare
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Why Should We
Care?
She’s The Man (2006)
 How do Shakespeare’s works still captivate
today’s audience?
 Is Shakespeare as relevant today as he was when
he lived 400 years ago?
 How within our lives and todays vast
entertainment do we still see comedy and tragedy
similar to that presented in Shakespeare’s works?
Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)
William Shakespeare
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 Shakespeare was born around April 23, 1564 in Stratford,
England.
 His father was a local businessman and his mother was the
daughter of a landowner.
 It is assumed that his family paid for William Shakespeare’s
education.
 When Shakespeare was 18, he married an older woman named
Anne Hathaway. His first daughter was named Susanna. The
couple had two more children, but William’s only son, Hamnet,
died at age 11.
 Shakespeare most likely wrote the majority of his sonnets
during the 1590s.
 Because of well timed investments, Shakespeare became
financially secure and able to devote most of his time to writing
and acting.
Retrieved February 11, 2011 from biography online website
http://www.biographyonline.net/poets/william_shakespeare.html
William Shakespeare
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Fun Facts
 Shakespeare performed in his own plays and
the plays of others.
 Shakespeare wrote more than 37 plays, and
154 sonnets (152 were published—though not
until after his death).
 …but did he really write them? Whether he
did or did not plagiarize his works is up to
debate.
 No one truly knows what Shakespeare looks
like. All of the artist renditions we have of
him were made after his death.
William Shakespeare
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Elizabethan Time Period
 Shakespeare’s contemporaries
 Christopher Marlowe
 Edmund Spencer
 Social trends
 Fashion
 Entertainment
 Customs/Practices
 Politics, religion, and economics
William Shakespeare
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 http://www.williamshakespeare.info/
 http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
William Shakespeare
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Some of Shakespeare’s
most loved plays
 Romeo and Juliet
 Twelfth Night
 A Midsummer Nights Dream
 As You Like It
 Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare
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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ullpZ30fpQ&f
eature=related
She’s The Man (2006)
William Shakespeare
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A few of Shakespeare’s
most famous sonnets
 Sonnet 29 - When in disgrace with fortune
 Sonnet 116 - Let me not to the marriage of true
minds
 Sonnet 18 - Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
William Shakespeare
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 Imagine you are living in 16th century Stratford,
England. It is spring of 1595. Assume the identity of
a citizen of this time and place, and write a journal
entry of this day.
 Hints: Think about entertainment, fashion, food,
family life, education, job, religious beliefs, etc.