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William Shakespeare's Creative Evening

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William Shakespeare a great English playwright, a genius who has worried mankind for centuries.
Shakespeare's contemporary Ben Jonson gave him an accurate assessment:
"the Soul of our age ... May you be glorious at all times … "

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William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in the English town of Stratford-upon-Avon.
His father was a businessman and the town’s mayor. His mother came from a family that owned land near Stratford. William had three younger brothers and two younger sisters.

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Like other boys of middle-class families, William attended a grammar school in Stratford where he got a good education and also learned Latin.

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When William was 18 he married Anne Hathaway. They had three children, first Susanna and then twins, a son named Hamnet and a daughter named Judith. Hamnet died when he was 11.


We don’t really know what William did during the following years but in 1592 he went to London to work as a writer and actor.
It was a difficult job and only the best found work in London.

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From 1592 to 1594 the Black Death spread across England. Many public places were closed and plays couldn’t be performed either. Shakespeare spent these years writing sonnets and poems.

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Sonnet 142
Sonnet 142

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Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving:
O, but with mine compare thou thine own state,
And thou shalt find it merits not reproving;
Or, if it do, not from those lips of thine,
That have profaned their scarlet ornaments
And seal'd false bonds of love as oft as mine,
Robb'd others' beds' revenues of their rents.
Be it lawful I love thee, as thou lovest those
Whom thine eyes woo as mine importune thee:
Root pity in thy heart, that when it grows
Thy pity may deserve to pitied be.

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,
By self-example may thou be denied!

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When the theatres opened up again in 1594 Shakespeare joined the best acting company of the country - Lord Chamberlain’s Men. It had the best actors, the best writers and the most famous theatre - the Globe.
The Globe was a huge Amphitheatre without a roof. The seats were curved around a stage that was built on many levels.

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In the twenty years that he worked on stage Shakespeare wrote 37 plays. They can be put into three big categories:
Tragedies are plays that show the downfall of a main character. His most famous tragedies are Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth.

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Excerpt from the work of “Hamlet”

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ACT III. Scene I. A room in the Castle
(Enter Hamlet.)
Ham.
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 heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,' tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep! perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;

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William Shakespeare retired from the theatre in 1610 and went back to his home town Stratford, where he lived until his death in 1616.
In the mid-eighteenth century, William Shakespeare was recognized as a classic, and in the early nineteenth century he was proclaimed the greatest poet of the world.

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Thank you for attention