William Shakespeare Task 1
Stratford-upon-Avon, UK 1564 he was born
He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in the year 1564.
April 23, 1616 he was 52 when he died
Shakespeare died on April 23rd, 1616 at the age of 52.
He lived in Stratford-upon-Avon for most of his life.
He had six siblings altogether, three sisters and three brothers.
Hamnet Shakespeare, Judith Quiney, Susanna Hall were his children.
He married Anne Hathaway In the year 1582
His parents were John Shakespeare and Mary Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Task 2
He wrote 154 sonnets, poems and playwriting. Sonnets, a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Some of his history plays were: Henry VI, Richard III, Edward III
Some of his comedy plays were; The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night
Some of his tragedy plays were; Hamlet and Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet
The main difference between a Shakespearean comedy and a tragedy is that tragedy plays include a conflict about defeat, shattered hopes, disappointment and extreme sorrow. The suffering normally happens to the main character, which is likely to suffer from death. Comedies were very popular. The Comedies were most enjoyed out of the 3 genres of Shakespeare plays. The actors had to do a lot of singing and dancing in the plays. (Plays normally ended with singing and dancing)
Macbeth was a tragedy play which was written in 1606.
Creative Process John Milton, William Shakespeare, and Leonardo da Vinci, were all artist of the Renaissance. The Renaissance spanned form the fourteen to the seventeen century. It was a cultural movement in literature, science, art, religion, and politics. John Milton was part of the religious part of the Renaissance. His best known work was Paradise Lost. William Shakespeare was a part of the literature part of the Renaissance. He wrote “Romeo and Juliet”. He was widely regarded as the greatest…
achieve a certain task or goal, the better the reward or the satisfaction from completing it. One would agree with this statement because in this world and time we live in, things don’t come easy. One must work hard in order to achieve one’s goals and the harder those goals are, the greater the feeling or reward will be when one completes them. Two works of literature that demonstrate this idea is the epic poem “Beowulf” by an unknown author and the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Through the use…
In William Shakespeare's tragic play Hamlet, Laertes, Fortinbras and Hamlet find themselves in similar situations. While Hamlet waits for the perfect time to avenge his father's death by murdering Claudius, Laertes learns of his father's death and instantly seeks vengeance, and Fortinbras awaits his chance to recapture lands that were lost by his father, Old Fortinbras. The latter two go about accomplishing their tasks quite differently than Hamlet. While Hamlet acts slowly and with lots of thought…
would provide William Shakespeare a perfect opportunity to employ comedy in Hamlet. However, Shakespeare has taken hold of this opportunity to provide a discussion full of jest, remarkable word-play, and clever humor. Using these thematic elements, he forces Hamlet to question “his inability to recognize how a major way of knowing restricts both his love and his philosophy” (Hunt 141). In other words, Hamlet becomes aware that man is truly the very “quintessence of dust” (Shakespeare 103) and no matter…
One of the many talents of the playwright William Shakespeare was that he broke the limiting mold of the one-dimensional character by representing characters in all of their human complexity. Hamlet, for example, is a compelling character because he is complicated. As Hamlet himself observes early in the play in one of the important quotes from Hamlet by William Shakespeare, “ ‘Tis not alone my inky cloak…/nor customary suits of solemn black,/Nor…forced breath/No, nor the fruitful river in the eye…
Nicole Ventzke Crystal Jensen 1102 T/H 2/14/11 Hamlet Character Analysis: Hamlet One aspect that makes William Shakespeare’s Hamlet alluring is how he broke the limiting mold of the one-dimensional character by representing characters in all of their human complexity. Hamlet, for example, is a compelling character because he is complicated. As Hamlet himself observes early in the play in, “Tis not alone my inky cloak/nor customary suits of solemn black, /Nor…forced breath/No, nor the fruitful…
While Reading William Shakespeare's The Tempest, there were several elements which seemed as though they held a symbolic meaning deeper than their superficial appearance. Prospero and his magic, Ariel the spirit and his influence on the supporting characters, the distinct tone of each of the three storylines, and many other details will be covered in detail. Throughout reading The Tempest, these details felt as though it were alluding to similarities between Prospero and William Shakespeare, or more specifically…
irony and pathetic fallacy. William Shakespeare, who is considered as the greatest writer in English language uses characters to convey messages through dramatic literary devices. Shakespeare effectively uses characters to express dramatic literary devices that construct the plot of the play. For example, in the play Macbeth, which is one of Shakespeare’s darkest plays, he uses the witches to illustrate the popular theme of “Appearance vs. Reality”. Also, Shakespeare uses Romeo in the play Romeo…
completing his simple task of avenging his father’s death and murdering his uncle Claudius because Hamlet has to make sure the ghost was not a demon playing a trick upon him. Hamlet is branded mad by most of Denmark; most people believed his madness was rooted with the loss of his father, and swift remarriage of his uncle and mother; however, Hamlet wanted to appear mad to help him in masking his fulfillment of his father’s wishes of revenge. In the play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, revenge seems…
Despite the often chaotic appearances of wars and plagues, order created reassurance so long as man followed its prescribed hierarchy. William Shakespeare capitalizes the idea that mankind does not always follow this hierarchy by creating disorder within his plays. As a result, he artfully illustrates the order of the accepted. Shakespeare accomplishes this task through the concept of force. As defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, force refers to an attribute of physical action. Additionally…
