William+Shakespeare

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Jason: Yo, yo yo This is Jbrown back again with another moment in history. Tonights segments' on my main man William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, on Standford-on-Avon. Although enrolment registers did not survive, around the age of eleven Shakespeare probably entered the grammar school of Stratford, King's New School, where he would have studied theatre and acting, as well as Latin literature and history. When he finished school he might have apprenticed for a time with his father, but there is also mention of his being a school teacher.He was the oldest child in his family of eight. William Shakespeare went Kings New School in Stratford England.

He is know to be one of the most famous English writers in history. He wrote poems and plays/stories during the Renaissance/ Elizabethan Age. His most famous works are //Romeo and Juliet//, //Hamlet,// //A Midsummer Night Dream//, //Julius Caesar//, //Much Ado About Nothing//, //Othello//, and //Twelfth Night//, He is also known famously for his Shakespearian sonnets to. At age 18 he married a women named Anne Hathaway not to confused with the actress Anne Hathaway. A lot of his works were love-stories and poems that ended up as a tragedy like the infamous //Romeo and Juliet//. Some of his works were Romantic comedies like //Taming the Shrew// and Much ado about Nothin'. Willaim Shakespere also wrote Histories, true life events on some of the Kings England had. Some histories were //King Henry VI Part 1,// //King Henry VI Part2////,King Henry VI Part 3////, King John// 1//, King Henry IV Part 1,////King Henry IV Part 2//.

Many of Shakespeare's performances took place in the famous Globe Theater in London. The Globe theater opened in the fall of 1549 with the performances of //Julius Caesar// written by Shakespeare. Most of the plays Shakespeare wrote during his time were preformed on stage at the Globe done by the Lord Chamberlain's Men. The whole cast was men, and men played female roles. Many of Shakespeare's plays are now movies. Some of the movies are Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and Midsummer Night Dream. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare

Jason: Shakespeare is known for many poems he wrote. many of his poems were love letters to women. Probably the most famous poem Shakespeare wrote was the Sonnet was Shall I Compare thee to a Summer's Day, which goes like   Say In poem like form:"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee." http://www.fleurdelis.com/shallIcomparethee.htm by Willam Shakspere

 Jason: Shakespearian sonnets rhyme scheme usually go  AB AB CD CD EF EF GG. In his life he wrote 154 sonnets. Some used in his plays like Hamlet  Jason We know that Shakespeare wrote plays, this part of scrit i will read is from the play Much Ado About Nothing Act1 Scene 1: ** ACT I SCENE I. Before LEONATO'S house.

Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a Messenger LEONATO I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon comes this night to Messina.

Messenger He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off when I left him.

LEONATO How many gentlemen have you lost in this action?

Messenger But few of any sort, and none of name.

LEONATO A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers. I find here that Don Peter hath bestowed much honour on a young Florentine called Claudio.

Messenger Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.

LEONATO He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much glad of it.

Messenger I have already delivered him letters, and there appears much joy in him; even so much that joy could not show itself modest enough without a badge of bitterness.

LEONATO Did he break out into tears?

Messenger In great measure.

LEONATO A kind overflow of kindness: there are no faces truer than those that are so washed. How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping! **

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/much_ado/full.html

 Jason:  Some scholars claim Shakespeare was Catholic. Christian Holy Trinity church, the now famous elegant limestone cross shaped cathedral on the banks of the Avon river, studying the Book of Common Prayer and the English Bible.

http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/ At this time of prolific writing, Shakespeare began his association until his death with The Lord Chamberlain's Men. With the accession of James I they became the King's Men, who bought and performed most of Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare died April 23, 1616. His work will forever be remembered.

