Great Unknown (W. Shakespeare)

Sonnet 97

“ How like a winter hath my absence been…”

William Shakespeare is a Great Unknown

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

” He was not of an age, but for all time.” ( Ben Jonson - English poet)

Stratford-upon-Avon

the Great Unknown

Anne Hathaway

the Globe Theatre

doubtful

occupy

performance

playwright

experience

genius

remarkable

“ The Age of Shakespeare”

“ Our National Bard”

Stratford-on-Avon

King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon

Shakespeare's Birthplace

"... around forty boys would have been taught in this room ..."

This is the schoolroom where Shakespeare was educated. It is still in use.

Anne Hathaway,

Shakespeare’s mysterious wife

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Globe Theatre (nowadays)

Shakespeare wrote: 37 plays 17 comedies 10 historical plays 7 books of poems 2 long poems and 154 sonnets Most of Shakespeare’s plays were not published in his lifetime. So, some of them may have been lost in the fire when the “Globe” burned down in 1613.

Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon

True or False ?

1. Shakespeare was born in the 17th century.

2. William got a good education in London.

3. William married late. His wife was younger than him.

4. William Shakespeare had three children: a daughter Susanna and twin sons.

5. His wife Anne Hathaway loved theatre very much.

6. Shakespeare never acted on the stage.

7. Shakespeare died in London and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

8. Shakespeare wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets.

Tragedies:

Comedies:

1. “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”

2. “Othello”

3. “King Lear”

4. “Macbeth”

5. “Romeo and Juliet”

6. “Julius Caesar”

7. “Antony and Cleopatra”

1. “The Comedy of Errors”

2. “The Taming of the Shrew”

3. “All’s Well that Ends Well”

4. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

5. “Much Ado about Nothing”

6. “Twelfth Night”

7. “The Merry Wives of Windsor”

“ The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” (Hamlet) 

To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune:

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing, end them? To die; to sleep,

No more; and, by a sleep, to say we end

The heart ache, and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh in heir to, ‘tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish ‘d. To die; to sleep;

To sleep!

Quotations

a)“Не все в порядке в Датском королевстве”

b)“ Жизнь прожить - не поле перейти”

c)“Любовь слепа”

d)“Все хорошо, что хорошо кончается”

e)“Краткость - сестра таланта”

f)“Превратности судьбы”

g) “Много шума из ничего”

h) “Трус умирает много раз до смерти”

i)“Быть или не быть”

j) “Прекрасное – прекрасной”

k)“Начало конца”

1“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

2“To be or not to be”.

3“Sweets to the sweet”

4“Life is not all cakes and ale”

5“Love is blind”

6“The beginning of the end.”

7“All is well that ends well.

8“Brevity is the soul of wit”

9“Much ado about nothing.”

10“The whirling of time”

11“Cowards die many times before

their death”

Quotations KEYS:

1“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

2“To be or not to be”.

3“Sweets to the sweet”

4“Life is not all cakes and ale”

5“Love is blind”

6“The beginning of the end.”

7“All is well that ends well.

8“Brevity is the soul of wit”

9“Much ado about nothing.”

10“The whirling of time”

11“Cowards die many times before

their death”

1a 2i 3j 4b 5c 6k 7d 8e 9g 10f 11h

a) “Не все в порядке в Датском королевстве”

i)“Быть или не быть”

j) “Прекрасное – прекрасной”

b) “ Жизнь прожить - не поле перейти”

c) “Любовь слепа”

k) “Начало конца”

d) “Все хорошо, что хорошо кончается”

e) “Краткость - сестра таланта”

g) “Много шума из ничего”

f) “Превратности судьбы”

h) Трус умирает много раз до

смерти”

Sonnet 29

“ When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes … ”

Sonnet 30

“ When to the sessions of sweet silent thought…”

Shakespeare spent most of his career in London as an actor, playwright and manager of the Globe Theatre. In 1611 he came back to Stratford and spent there the last years of his life, there he died, on the same date as his birthday, the 23rd of April 1616. He was buried in Holy Trinity Church of Stratford. His tomb has four lines that are said to have been written by him: “Good friend, for Jesus’ sake, forbear To dig the dust enclosed here; Blessed be he that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones”. A monument was opened to the memory of the great playwright in the Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey.

So long as men can breath or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee. …….. Ты не умрешь, в стихах увековечен, жить будешь в них, свой продолжая век, Доколе зрит и дышит человек.