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Lived about 51 years Wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Lived about 51 years
Wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets
Almost four hundred years after Shakespeare's death there are 15 million pages referring to him on Google.
(FYI - There are 132 million for God, 2.7 million for Elvis Presley, and coming up on Shakespeare's heels, George W Bush with 14.7 million)
Macbeth is considered the most frequently performed play, a production occurs somewhere in the world every 4 hours
His plays have been translated into over 30 different languages and his sonnets over 80
Shakespeare’s plays are globally produced more often than any other playwright in the history of theatre.
“Funny Boy” a flop musical inside the musical “The Producers”
“Rockabye Hamlet” February of 1976…7 performances
Prequel to Hamlet: “Gertrude and Claudius” by John Updike
Movies: Yellow SkyForbidden PlanetTempest (2002)
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