william shakespeare, short presentation,main information about his life, books and quotations
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William Shakespeare
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Dramatist, Poet and Actor23rdApril 156423rdApril 1616
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Shakespeare's Birthplace from Henley Street
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The Bible was a constant source of inspiration for
him, yet his plays do not comprise the rigidity of
dogma.
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Anne Hathaway's Cottage - The most romantic
Shakespeare house
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Shakespeares earliest plays - historical plays:
the three parts of Henry VI, and a history play Richard III
Shakespeare had an excellent sense of the comic -his early comedies include:
The Comedy of Errors
The Taming of the Shrew
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Loves Labours Lost
In this period he also wrote his beautiful lyrical
tragedy Romeo and Juliet.
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His most famous comedies
The Midsummer Nights Dream
The Merchant of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing
As You Like It
Twelfth Night and The Merry Wives of Windsor
He presented the themes of love, friendship, human harmony and
joy of life. He showed himself the master of dramatic construction,
economy of dramatic means and above all the master of language.
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His Sonnets date from 1609.
Romantic dramas belong to the last phase of writingThe Winters TaleandThe Tempest
- problems of good, evil, guilt, innocence, andresponsibility
In his great tragedies, the result is always thetriumph of the good and innocent.
The world of romantic dramas is symbolic.Shakespeare often uses magic, mythology and
folklore elements in his romantic dramas.
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Here's a collection of well-known quotations
that are associated with Shakespeare:
All that glitters is not gold / All that glisters is not
gold
Meaning: A showy article may not necessarily be
valuable.To be, or not to be, that is the question
Meaning: Is it better to live or to die?
Love is blind
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Famous quotes about WilliamShakespeare:
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is
that he is really very good - in spite of all
the people who say he is very good.
Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
Sweet Swan of Avon!
Ben Jonson (1573 - 1637)He was not of an age, but for all time!
Ben Jonson (1573 - 1637)
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William Shakespeare Quotes:
A fool thinks himself to bewise, but a wise man knows
himself to be a fool. All the world's a stage, and allthe men and women merely
players: they have their exitsand their entrances; and oneman in his time plays many
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Better three hours too soon than a minutetoo late.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Everyone ought to bear patiently the resultsof his own conduct.
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge isthe wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
S eak low, i ou s eak love.