William Shakespeare
Life and work
Pedro Paños Hernández 1º Bachillerato de Investigación
William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare was an English playwright
and poet. He is one of the most important writers
in the world.
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His pieces are the most represented of all times in
different languages.
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Shakespeare was born in Stratford , 23rd April
1564,
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William Shakespeare
He lived in the middle of a rich family.
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Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway and they
had three kids.
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He died the 23rd April 1616
Sonnets
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Sonnets were published in 1609
154 poems written for twenty years
Sensitive and serious poems
First, they spoke about love for a young boy
with whom he wanted to have kids.
After those first, about love for a girl.
- Venus and Adonis
- The rape of Lucretia
Theatre
His more important plays are:
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Othelo (1603):
It is a tragedy, which is
focused on jealousy.
Yago made Othelo feel
jealous of his wife,
Desdémona, and he
killed her. Then Othelo
hurt Yago and finally
killed himself .
It’s a pure tragedy!
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Romeo and Juliette (1591)
This is the story of a forbidden love, because their families
are opposite.
Juliette must marry a sir, but she didn’t love him, so the day
before the wedding she drank a venom which made
hersleep her for 24 hours.
Romeo should wake up Juliette and run away together, but
when he saw Juliette, he thought that she was dead and
he killed himself.
When Juliette woke up and saw that Romeo was dead,
she killed herself.
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Hamlet(1600)
Claudio killed the king, his brother, to be able to get marry
with the queen.
The king’s ghost appeared to Hamlet, the prince, and he
told him who was the killer.
Hamlet killed Polonio and Claudio, and Polonio’s son killed
Hamlet.
When the queen saw her dead son she drank some venom
and died.
Adaptations
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There are a lot of adaptations of
Shakespeare’ s plays, for example:
Sources
Wikipedia English and Spanish version
 www.biografiasyvidas.com
 www.bibliotecasvirtuales.com
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