1. William Shakespeare (Or Shakspere or Shakespear) The world’s most famous playwriter WAAAAZ UP!!!!

2. Shakespeare Facts Born in… 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. Elizabethan era England’s Golden Age 1558-1603 1589-1616 –38 plays, –154 sonnets OMG! That’s a lot of plays

3. Famous Plays 1594-95, (Romeo and Juliet) 1595-96 (A Midsummer Night's Dream ) 1598-99, (Much Ado about Nothing) 1599-1600, (As You Like It) 1600-01, (Hamlet) 1601-02 (Twelfth Night) 1604-05, (Othello) 1605-06, (King Lear) 1606, (Macbeth) 1611-12, (The Tempest)

4. Four types of plays: 1.Tragedies (e.g. Hamlet) 2.Comedies (e.g. Twelfth night) 3.Historic Plays (e.g. Henry VIII) 4.Fairy Tale plays (e.g. The tempest)

5. Shakespeare’s sonnets Published 1609 Love for the ”Dark Lady” Grieves his son Bisexual undertones? Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still; The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill"

6. Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? 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. Sonnet rules! 14 lines 4-4-2 Rhymes 1-3, 2-4 10 Syllables

7. Theatres at the time Plays were big- Entertainment for all kinds of people. Money to be made! –Constant demand for new material. Rivalry between the Theatres’ playhouses was enormous. In 1591 the growing popularity of theatres led to a law closing all theatres on Thursdays so that various industries would not be neglected. 1642- Cromwell closed all theatres The Globe- Shakespeare’s ”own” theatre.

8. The Globe

9. But was he really that great? His work? Oxfordians find it suspicious that the original manuscripts of Shakespeare's plays have not survived. Stratfordians contra anti-Stratfordians Anti no1- John Thomas Looney Hi! I’m (a) looney!

10. Extra material- Shakespeare in 8 minutes

11. Assignment-Love letter http://www.julietclub.com/index_en.asp