William Shakespeare1564-1616

Macbeth

Personal Details

1564 - Born

1582 - Married Anne Hathaway

1592 – Career had begun

1599 – Shakespeare and friends build The

Globe

1603 – 1610 – Bubonic Plague

1616 - Died

WHY DO WE READ

SHAKESPEARE?

WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?

Reason #1:

GREATEST WRITER IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!

WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?

Reason #2:

HE WROTE 37 OF THE MOST POPULAR PLAYS IN THE

HISTORY OF THE WORLD.

Macbeth• Shortest tragedy

• Bloodiest tragedy

The Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre

WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?

Reason #3:

HE WROTE 154 SONNETS.

WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?

Side note:

What is a sonnet?

• 14 lines

• rhyme scheme

• iambic pentameter

The Sonnetiambic pentameter

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks

The Sonnet

154 sonnets of 14 lines of iambic pentameter

= 2, 156 lines of iambic pentameter

WHY DO WE READ SHAKESPEARE?

REASON #4

Because he thought and felt like we do today.

All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,