So who is this Shakespeare guy?

Why, he’s only the most famous writer of ALL time!!!

What did he write? Plays!! 38, to be exact. All of which include, comedies, dramas, tragedies, and comic drama-dies. The most famous are his tragedies and comedies. These are just a few: Romeo and JulietJulius Caesar MacbethTwelfth Night A Midsummer Night’s Dream Antony and CleopatraHamlet OthelloKing LearAs You Like It Much Ado About Nothing

Hamlet “To be, or not to be: that is the question” (Act III, Scene I). "This above all: to thine own self be true" (Act I, Scene III).

Romeo and Juliet "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" (Act II, Scene II). "Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.“ (Act II, Scene II). "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" (Act II, Sc. II). "Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast."(Act II, Scene III). "O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright" (Act I, Sc. V). "It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear" (Act I, Scene V). "See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!" (Act II, Sc. II).

Macbeth "There 's daggers in men's smiles.” (Act II, Scene III). "Fair is foul, and foul is fair.“ (Act I, Scene I). "Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness." (Act I, Scene V). "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble." (Act IV, Scene I). "Out, damned spot! out, I say!" (Act V, Scene I). "When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, When the battle 's lost and won."(Act I, Scene I). "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't."(Act I, Scene V).

Julius Caesar "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” (Act III, Scene II).

A Midsummer Night’s Dream "The course of true love never did run smooth“ (Act I, Scene I).

What else did he write? POETRY! – Sonnets, specifically A sonnet is an 14 line poem with a specific structure and rhyme scheme. 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 owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee. Do you recognize any lines from this?

Clueless! Not you, the movie Parts of this poem appear in the movie Clueless The main character, Cher, uses lines from Shakespeare’s sonnet to try and make her teachers fall in love.

Who did he write for?!? Everyone! Many of the characters in Shakespeare’s plays are references to ruling members of the English monarchy and the Upper Class Much of his raunchy comedy was aimed at entertaining the lower classes

The Globe Theater

Don’t think you know Shakespeare? Sure you do! The musical West Side Story is a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

She’s the Man = Twelfth Night

O = Othello

10 Things I Hate About You = The Taming of the Shrew

The Lion King = Hamlet

Gnomeo and Juliet = Romeo and Juliet (Duh!)

And we see his influence in many other things…

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The show Star Trek is known for quoting Shakespeare’s many plays Live long and prosper…

We see his influence in cartoons…

A quote from Macbeth! This is Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

This is a radio advertisement which quotes Twelfth Night, and pertains to love and music. It’s pretty self explanatory.

And I could go on for days… Shakespeare is everywhere… You just have to be on the lookout!

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