William Shakespeare
 LIFE
-when: born on 1564 Stratford Upon Avon
-died. 1616 on the same day of his birthday
-grammar school
-NO university
-london
-lord chamberlain's mens
-the globe theatre
 WORKS
 great playwright
-37 plays: -10 tragedies ---- Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Hachbeth
-17 comedies ----A midsummer night's dream, The tempest,
The merchant of Venice
-10 historical plays ---Richard III
-poems
- 154 sonets -----most famous n°18 ----- "shall I compare
tree in a summer day?"
 HIS IMPORTANCE
-His plays are translated into a lot of languages and many films have been
based on his plays.
Something for everyone: love, war, murder, friendship, ambitions...LIFE
 LANGUAGE
-used more than 21,000 words in his works
-invented more than 2000 words like gossip, bedroom, birthplace