♥ No one is sure when William was born, but he was baptized on April 26, 1564 ♥ His father was John Shakespeare ♥ His mother was Mary Arden ♥ Married Anne Hathaway who was 8 years his senior ♥ Children were Susanna and twins Judith and Hamnet ♥ Died April 23, 1616 – could this have been the day of his birth as well? It is very possible as children in that time period were baptized 3 days after their birth.

♥ Some of Shakespeare’s poems were published without his consent ♥ He wrote 154 sonnets ♥ A sonnet is a 14 line poem with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg ♥ Shakespeare’s sonnets are written in iambic pentameter ♥ Iambic pentameter is a poem written with 10 syllables in each line ♥ Sonnets have a specific rhythm – it is unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

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 un- trimm'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. a a b b c d c d e f f e g g

He dealt with what are called universal truths.

Universal truths are things that are true all over the world – themes that occur in all cultures. Love Hate Greed Power Feuding Envy

Macbeth Greed Envy result is death of the offenders A Midsummer Night’s Dream Lies Deceit Adultery result in the fairies of the forest turning the offenders into animals and messing with their memories Julius Caesar Power Hate result in the uprising of the Roman empire into a civil war

star crossed lovers feuding families fights duels What will be the outcome?

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