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Presenting Shakespeare
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Facts About Shakespeare: True or False
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• William Shakespeare lived from 1564-1616.– True!– Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon,
in 1564.– Shakespeare died in 1616 from unknown
causes.
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• Shakespeare never married.– False!–Married Anne Hathaway in November of
1582.
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Anne was around 25-26 years old at the time of the marriage. Shakespeare was around 17-18.
Together, the couple had three children: Susanna, Hamnet, and Judith.
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• During Shakespeare’s time, people who wrote plays were considered to be literary experts and were respected.– False!– Poets were highly respected and were seen as
intellectual.
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• Shakespeare’s first play is believed to be King Henry the Sixth, Part One.– True!– This play was written around 1589-1590.
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• Shakespeare never published any of his plays. – True!–His fellow actors
posthumously published his work.
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• Shakespeare also wrote sonnets.• True!
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Sonnets
– Sonnets are lyric poems that are fourteen lines long
– Every other line rhymes for lines 1-12. – Lines 13 and 14 are a couplet and these lines
rhyme.
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Sonnets
• Sonnets are traditionally written in iambic pentameter.
• The rhythm sound like a heartbeat. • The unstressed/stressed pattern sounds like, “da
DUM, da DUM, da DUM”.