Презентация на тему Творчество Уильяма Шекспира

imagined without the Bible and the works of William

Shakespeare. They are symbols of Religion and Culture.

about W.Shakespeare’s life, as nobody collected any facts for

his biography during his lifetime.
The most important sources for the biography of William Shakespeare are official and documentary records: definite, reliable and dull. Of prime importance is the register of Stratford-on Avon Holy Trinity Church, which gives the date of the baptism of William Shakespeare, his marriage, the baptism of his children, and his death.

on Avon, and was christened in Holy Trinity Church.
W.Shakespeare’s

birthplace

Holy Trinity Church

the wealthiest citizens, and his mother , Mary Arden,

belonged to an ancient and distinguished Catholic family.

William was their third child and the eldest son.
He must have attended Stratford Grammar school, where he acquired the knowledge of Latin.

marriage to Anne Hathaway, a daughter of a wealthy

yeoman, in 1582.

In 1583 their first child, Susanna was born, and in 1585 the twins, Hamnet and Judith, followed her.
After the birth of the twins we know absolutely nothing about Shakespeare’s life for the next seven years.

settled in London and had started writing plays.

In 1593 a serious epidemic of the plague broke out, and all the theatres were closed down.
At that time William Shakespeare became a share-holder, the principal playwright and an actor of the Globe theatre on the southern bank of the Thames in London.

and dramas. Besides, he composed sonnets.
As the

time passed, he became rather rich, wrote less and in 1613 after the Globe had been destroyed by fire, Shakespeare retired to Stratford where he died on April, 23, 1616.
He was buried in the same Holy Trinity Church, where he was christened.

by his fellow-actors and published in a single volume

known as the First Folio.
His literary work may be divided into four periods. The plays are dated according to the theatrical season in which they were first staged.
William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets.

includes the plays that were written under the influence

of the University Wits.

1590/91 Henry VI, parts II and III
1591/92 Henry VI, part I
1592/93 Richard III
The Comedy of Errors
1593/94 Titus Andronicus
The Taming of the Shrew

Love’s Labour Lost

Romeo and Juliet
1595/96 Richard II
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1596/97 King John
The Merchant of Venice

During the second period William Shakespeare mainly wrote historical plays, chronicles, comedies . The only tragedy was “Romeo and Juliet”:

Henry V
1599/1600

Julius Caesar
As You Like It
Twelfth Night

tragedies that were the peak of his achievement, and

made him truly immortal:

1600/01 Hamlet
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1601/02 Troilus and Cressida
1603/04 All’s Well That Ends Well
1604/05 Measure for Measure
Othello

Macbeth
1606/07 Antony and Cleopatra
1607/08 Coriolanus

Timon of Athens

mainly constituted of the romantic dramas – plays written

around a dramatic conflict, but the tension in them is not so great as in tragedies, all of them have happy endings:

1608/09 Pericles
1609/10 Cymberline
1610/11 The Winter’s Tale
1611/12 The Tempest
1612/13 Henry VIII