14. William Shakespeare
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14. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
was a famous playwright, poet and actor
his plays and sonets have been translated and read all over the world
he wrote about 40 plays and over 150 sonnets
LIFE:
he was born in Stratford upon Avon in 1564
he was only 18 when he married Anne Hathaway who was 8 years older
they had 3 children together: Susanna and twins – Hamnet and Judith
Hamnet died ath the age of 11 and his death made William write the play Hamlet
later he moved to a London
he was also part owner of a company called the Lord Chamberlain’s men
the company built their own theatre called the Globe
in the end of his life he moved back to Stratford and he died in 1616
after his death many people began to say the work by Shakespeare was not written by him and even now we can’t be 100% sure that he really wrote all of his plays
HIS WORK:
is divided into 3 parts
the first part includes comedies and historical plays
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream
The Taming of the Shrew
Henry IV.
Julius Caesar
the second part includes sonnets (which are 14 lines poems about love) and tragedies
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth – is about the path to power through a crime
Hamlet – is about a prince who takes revenge for murdering his father
Othello – shows us human betrayal and manipulability
King Lear
and in the third part there are mostly fairly tales
The Tempest
The Winter’s Tale
ROMEO AND JULIET
the tragedy Romeo and Juliet is about unhappy love and hatred between 2 houses in Verona
Romeo is from the house of Montague and Juliet is from the house of Capulates
one day Romeo meets Juliet at the ball and they immediately fall in love with each other
and later they get secretly married
Romeo unfortunatelly kills Juliet’s cousin Tybalt and he is sent to the exile
Juliet’s parents want her to marry a rich man Paris but she doesn’t want to because she loves Romeo
she asks Friar for help and he gives her a potion that will make her look dead
Romeo finds about about Juliet’s death, buys a poison and goes to say the last goodbye to her
he kills himself and when Juliet wakes up and sees Romeo dead she takes his knife and kills herself too
Montague and Capulet Houses finally reconcile in the end