The Great Shakespeare

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Overview of William Shakespeare
~Famous playwright
~Romeo and Juliet
~First reference-
Robert Greene ~A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
~198 pieces
~Hamlet

~Macbeth
? ?
Life
~1585-1592: “Shakespeare’s Lost Years”
~Signs of strained marraige
~Wealth in real estate
~Family died out
Literature
Comedy
Taming of
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Wrote 4 types of plays: ●
the Shrew
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All’s Well that
Henry V End’s Well Nig
III ● Twelfth Night ht
Tragedy ● Trolius and
Cressida
● Romeo and
T
Juliet
History Romance
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Hamlet
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MJulius Caesar King John ● Pericles
The T
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Cymbeline
empes
● Macbeth ● Henry VIII ●
● Antony and
Cleopatra
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Richard III
Richard II
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The Winter’s Tale
The Tempest t
a stage,
No longer from head to
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Literature
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Comedy of Errors, Act 3,
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Death
~April 23, 1616

~Holy Trinity Church, Stratford

~Curse written on tombstone

Mystery
~Was Shakespeare Real??

~Born April 23 1564??

~No school records

~Skull missing from tomb

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