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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
n.23 aprilie 1564 - d.23 aprilie 1616
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• WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(baptized 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616)
was an English Poet and
playwright, widely regarded
as the greatest writer in the
English language, he is
often called England's
national poet and the "Bard
of Avon" (or simply "The
Bard").
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• SHAKESPEARE
was born and
raised in
Stratford-uponAvon. At the age
of 18, he married
Anne Hathaway,
who bore him
three children:
Susanna, and
twins Hamnet
and Judith.
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• Between 1585 and 1592,
he began a successful
career in London as an
actor, writer, and part
owner of a playing
company called the Lord
Chamberlain's Men, later
known as the King's Men.
He appears to have retired
to Stratford around 1613,
where he died three years
later.
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MARRIAGE AND LIFE
IN LONDON
• 1582 at age 18 married
Anne Hathaway (his wife was 26)
• 1583-1592 ???
• 1592 (28 years old) went to
London
– actor and playwright
– first accused of borrowing
from other playwrights
• 1592-1594 Plague
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SHAKESPEARE PROSPERS
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1598 built Globe Theatre; The Globe
Theatre was located in Southwark district of
London, red light district; It was built to hold
2,000 – 3,000 audience members.
– Owned shares in it
•
Father granted a coat-of-arms
– Gentlemen
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Recognized as a genius in his own time
HONORED AS ACTOR AND PLAYWRIGHT
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Queen Elizabeth dies in 1603
•
King James I takes the throne
– Shakespeare’s Theatre company
becomes the King’s Company
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Member of famous writer’s group (Mermaid
Tavern)
DEATH AND BURIAL AT STRATFORD
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1610 retired from theatre
– 1613 Globe theatre burns down
• lost much money but still wealthy
• helps rebuild Globe theatre
– Dies on April 23, 1616 at age 52
1599
1999
SHAKESPEARE’S
► GRAVE
►lifevolution & opera
SHAKESPEARE’S FOUR PERIODS
• First Period
- Apprenticeship (Age 26-30)
• Second Period
- Mastered his art!
- Favorite “Romantic Comedy”
• Third Period
- Problem of Evil in the World
• Forth Period
- Creates a new drama form
- “Tragicomedy” or the dramatic
romance
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His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative
poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every
major living language and are performed more often than those of any other
playwright.
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The first recorded works of Shakespeare are Richard III and the three parts of Henry
VI, written in the early 1590s during a vogue for historical drama. Shakespeare's plays
are difficult to date, however and studies of the texts suggest that Titus Andronicus,
The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew and Two Gentlemen of Verona
may also belong to Shakespeare’s earliest period.
Shakespeare's first plays were written in the conventional style of the day. He wrote
them in a stylised language The poetry depends on extended, sometimes elaborate
metaphors , and the language is often rhetorical.
Shakespeare’s plays are divided into comedies, histories and tragedies.
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COMEDIES
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All's Well That Ends Well
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As You Like It
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The Comedy of Errors
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Love's Labour's Lost
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Measure for Measure
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The Merchant of Venice
•
The Merry Wives of
Windsor
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A Midsummer Night's
Dream
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
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The Taming of the Shrew
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The Tempest
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Twelfth Night, or What
You Will
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The Two Gentlemen of
Verona
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The Two Noble Kinsmen
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The Winter's Tale
Among HISTORIES we
should mention:
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King John
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Richard II
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Henry IV, part 1
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Henry IV, part 2
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Henry V
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Henry VI, part 1
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Henry VI, part 2
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Henry VI, part 3
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Richard III
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Henry VIII
TRAGEDIES:
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Romeo and Juliet
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Coriolanus
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Titus Andronicus
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Timon of Athens
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Julius Caesar
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Macbeth
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Hamlet
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Troilus and Cressida
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King Lear
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Othello
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Antony and Cleopatra
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Cymbeline
►short analitic view
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Shakespeare most performed plays are: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth,
Othello, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, The Taming of the
Shrew. The tragic structure of human nature is heavenly exhibited in “Hamlet”
considered as being “Shakespeare’s longest play and among the most powerful and
influential tragedies in the English literature”(Thomson).
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Tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, Mac Beth, King Lear, Othello,
Anthony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline open an endless capacity of analyzing human
being behaviour.
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The bloody endings, the harsh perspective on life featuring revenge, guilt, death,
suicide, madness, outrageous murders, jealousy, complete the tragic life circle,
leaving the audience and readers breathless.
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Comedies “As you like it”, “Measure for Measure”, “Love’s Labour’s Lost”, “The
Comedy of Errors”, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, “The Tempest” display the neverending struggle between the forces of good and evil and the theme of love that has
profound effects on characters’ actions compelling the fact that most of them hide
themselves in false identities.
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Published in 1609, the Sonnets were the last of Shakespeare's non-dramatic works to
be printed. A prominent theme of Shakespeare's sonnets is the paradoxical nature of
love, Shakespeare depicted the human passion. Other themes refer to beauty,
mortality, the ravages of time.
►poetical view
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Timpul este prea lent pentru cei care aşteaptă, prea iute pentru cei care se
tem, prea lung pentru cei care se plâng, prea scurt pentru cei care
sărbătoresc. Dar, pentru cei ce iubesc, timpul este o eternitate.
Să te asemăn cu o zi de vară?
Frumuseţe şi balanţă ai mai mult.
În mai, ades furtuni muguri doboară,
Iar verile-s prea scurte, şi-n tumult.
De multe ori cerescul ochi prea arde,
Sau ceţuri auriul chip l-au şters,
Şi ce-i frumos din frumuseţe scade
Întâmplător, sau de-al naturii mers.
Dar veşnica ta vară nu se duce,
Minunea chipului tu n-o să-ţi schimbi,
Nu te umbreşte moartea-ntre năluce
Când în eterne versuri creşti în timp.
Cât mai respiră-n lume om, cât ochiu-nvaţă,
Trăi-va şi acest poem şi-ţi va da viaţă.
Când ochii mi-i închid ei văd mai bine
Că ziua n-au prea multe de aflat;
Dar când adorm, în vis pornesc spre tine
Şi-n beznă, vii, viu bezna o străbat.
Tu, umbră ce dai umbrelor splendoare,
Fă umbra ta aievea să-mi apară;
Când ochii orbi o văd strălucitoare,
În clar de zi va străluci mai clară.
Încântă-mi ochii, spun, că tare-aş vrea
Să-i văd pe-ai tăi în fapt de dimineaţă
Aşa cum toată noaptea umbra ta
În somnu-mi greu privirea mi-o răsfaţă.
Când nu te văd, mi-e ziua noapte-ntreagă
Şi noaptea-i zi când visele te-ncheagă.
Sonet 43
►after time
• O, slăbiciune, numele tău e femeie!
• Lumea-ntreagă e o scenă şi toţi oamenii-s actori.
• Ceea ce vrem să facem, s-o facem atunci când vrem; pentru că
acest “vrem” se schimbă şi are scăderi şi amânări.
• Suntem făcuţi din acelaşi material din care sunt ţesute visele.
• Moartea este o datorie pe care fiecare nu o poate plăti decât o
singură dată.
• Ascultă-i pe mulţi, vorbeşte la puţini.
• Nu există nimic bun sau rău, numai gândirea noastră face ca
lucrurile să arate astfel.
• Voinţa noastră şi destinul merg atât de opus încât planurile mereu
ne sunt răsturnate.
• Noi când ne naştem plângem că intrăm... pe aceasta mare scenă de
bufoni
►finish.
backdrop falls.
all‘s well that ends well.
but his opera never ended…
cristina & daniel murăriţa ► player
good well, friends!