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    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He wrote some of the most famous plays in English literature, including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children. He is believed to have moved to London in the 1580s to pursue a career in theatre. He joined an acting company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men and later the King's Men. Shakespeare wrote around 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and several long narrative poems over the course of his career. His works have been translated and performed across cultures worldwide.

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    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He wrote some of the most famous plays in English literature, including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children. He is believed to have moved to London in the 1580s to pursue a career in theatre. He joined an acting company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men and later the King's Men. Shakespeare wrote around 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and several long narrative poems over the course of his career. His works have been translated and performed across cultures worldwide.

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    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He wrote some of the most famous plays in English literature, including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children. He is believed to have moved to London in the 1580s to pursue a career in theatre. He joined an acting company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men and later the King's Men. Shakespeare wrote around 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and several long narrative poems over the course of his career. His works have been translated and performed across cultures worldwide.

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    William

    Shakespeare
    Life (1654-1616)
    • Son of a successful glover and alderman in
    Stratford-upon-Avon.
    • Married Ann Hathaway in 1582. They had
    three children.
    • Probably left Stratford for a theatre career in
    London in 1587. He is attacked by Robert
    Greene (proving his success) in 1592.
    • Joined Lord Chamberlain’s Men soon
    afterwards. The company was granted a royal
    patent by the new King James I and they
    became the King’s Men in 1603.
    • A partnership of company members built The
    Globe in 1599. Shakespeare had become a
    wealthy man.
    • He retired to Stratford around 1610. He ceased
    writing in 1613.
    Non-dramatic poetry
    • Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece
    (1594), mythological verse narratives dedicated to
    the Earl of Southampton.
    • 154 sonnets. Probably written between 1593 and
    1599 for a private readership. In these sonnets,
    Shakespeare broke with the pattern established by
    Phillip Sydney in addressing most of the love poems
    to a young male (the ‘fair youth’), instead of a
    mistress, and in broadening the cast to include four
    participants (he added a mistress, (the ‘dark lady’)
    and a second poet who becomes the rival of the
    sonneteer).
    • It remains unclear if these figures represent real
    individuals, or if the authorial "I" who addresses
    them represents Shakespeare himself, though
    Wordsworth believed that with the sonnets
    "Shakespeare unlocked his heart“.
    • The sonnets conform an impressive poetic cycle
    concerned with the nature of love, sexual passion,
    procreation, death, and time.
    Drama: selected plays
    Early histories and comedies
    (ca 1590-1595)
    • Titus Andronicus
    • Richard III
    • The Two Gentlemen from Verona
    • Love’s Labour’s Lost
    • Romeo and Juliet
    • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    • The Taming of the Shrew
    • The Merchant of Venice
    The greater
    • I,II Henry IV
    histories and
    • Much Ado About Nothing
    comedies
    (ca 1596-1600) • Henry V
    • Twelfth Night
    Tragedies and ‘problem plays’
    (ca 1600-1608)

    • Julius Caesar
    • Hamlet
    • Troilus and Cressida
    • Othello
    • King Lear
    • Macbeth
    • Anthony and Cleopatra
    Last plays (ca. 1609-1613)
    • Cymbeline
    • A Winter’s Tale
    • The Tempest
    Shakespeare across cultures

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