4. Biography
Born: 26 April 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
Died: 23 April 1616 (aged 52) Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire,
England
Occupation: Playwright, poet, actor
Nationality: English
Period : English Renaissance
Spouse: Anne Hathaway (m. 1582–1616)
Children:
Susanna Hall
Hamnet Shakespeare
Judith Quiney
Relative(s):
John Shakespeare (father)
Mary Shakespeare (mother)
5. Plays
-To understand the Shakespearean play , is not
necessary to have lived in the sixteenth century.
-Anyone can feel identified with their Plays.
6. Comedies
-All's Well That Ends Well
-As You Like It
-The Comedy of Errors
-Love's Labour's Lost
-Measure for Measure
-The Merchant of Venice
-The Merry Wives of Windsor
-A Midsummer Night's Dream
-Much Ado About Nothing
-Pericles, Prince of Tyre
-The Taming of the Shrew
-The Tempest
-Twelfth Night
-The Two Gentlemen of Verona
-The Two Noble Kinsmen
-The Winter's Tale
9. Otelo
- Otelo: The “Moro” of Venice, is a tragedy written around 1603.
- Described the “Moro” and other dark-skinned people avoiding any discussion
about Islam in the play.
10. Hamlet
- The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
- This is a play theatrical, the gender isTragedy.
- William Shakespeare based his Hamlet on two sources:
- The legend of a lost Amleth.
- Elizabethan play.
11. Romeo and Juliet (1597)
- Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy.
- Two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding
families.
- Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity.