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Shakespeare
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Who was Shakespeare?

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Shakespeare
What do you know?

Who was Shakespeare?

What did he do?

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Shakespeare

Slide 2 - Mind map

Shakespeare intro lesson
  • Quiz questions
  • General information
  • Videos 
  • Modern Shakespeare

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In which century was Shakespeare born?
A
14th
B
15th
C
16th
D
17th

Slide 4 - Quiz

Timeline
● April 1564: born in Stratford-upon-Avon
● November 1582: marries Anne Hathaway
● May 1583: daughter Susanna born
● early 1585: twins Judith and Hamnet born
● c. 1585: begins acting career in London
● c. 1592: well-known dramatist in London
● August 1596: son Hamnet dies
● c. 1610: retires to Stratford, buys a large house there
● 23 April 1616: dies in Stratford-upon-Avon

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How many plays did Shakespeare write?
A
25
B
37
C
44
D
53

Slide 6 - Quiz

Do you know any plays?

Slide 7 - Mind map

Shakespeare wrote a lot of poems, especially Sonnets. How many Sonnets did he write?
A
39
B
137
C
154
D
203

Slide 8 - Quiz

Sonnets
  •  Shakespeare's main form of poetry
  •  14-line poem
  •  1609: Shakespeare's Sonnets = 154 poems
  •  Focused on love, devotion, delight, pride
  •  Or darker themes: shame, disgust, fear

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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
   So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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Slide 11 - Video

Reasons to study Shakespeare
1. The Tragedy plot is one of the seven basic plots.
2. He has some extraordinary storylines
3. Shakespeare's characters are very powerful
4. His plays are full of meaning and messages that are
still relevant today.

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Shakespeare
● Shakespeare = influential writer in all of English literature
● 37 plays, 154 sonnets
● Famous stories and movies are based on his works, such as
Lion King (Hamlet), West Side Story (Romeo & Juliet) & She's
the Man (Twelth Night)
● 500+ film adaptions of his plays

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Romeo and Juliet
What do you know?

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What do you know about Romeo and Juliet?

Slide 15 - Open question

Slide 16 - Video

Romeo and Juliet

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If time left
check out the assignments

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What do you think?

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