2. William
Shakespeare Quick Facts
• NAME: William Shakespeare
• OCCUPATION: Playwright, Poet
• BIRTH DATE: unknown but observed in c. April 23, 1564
• DEATH DATE: April 23, 1616 (52 years old)
• EDUCATION: King's New School
• PLACE OF BIRTH: Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
• PLACE OF DEATH: Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
• NICKNAME: "Bard of Avon"
• NICKNAME: "Swan of Avon"
• AKA: Shakspere
• AKA: Will Shakespeare
• NICKNAME: "The Bard"
3. William
Shakespeare Quick Facts
• PARENTS: John and Mary Shakespeare
• WIFE: Anne Hathaway; eight years older than him
• CHILDREN: Susanna (born six months after their wedding;
Hamnet and Judith (twins), son died at 11 years
old
4. William
Shakespeare WORKS
COMEDY HISTORY TRAGEDY POETY
All’s Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Cymbleline
Love’s Labours Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter’s Tale
Henry IV, part 1
Henry IV, part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, part 1
Henry VI, part 2
Henry VI, part 3
Henry VIII
King John
Richard II
Richard III
Anthony and
Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Cesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
The Sonnets
A Lover’s
Complaint
The Rape of
Lucrece
Venus and Adonis
Funeral Elegy by
W.S.
6. All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth.
7. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
8. ENGLISH
LITERATURE
Shakespeare's As You Like It >
Act II, scene VII
• One of his famous monologues
•Seven Stages of a Man
• Delivered by Jaques, a gloomy
exiled lord living in the Forest of
Ardennes.
9. ENGLISH
LITERATURE
•The character of Jacques is based
upon the Elizabethan stock character
of the melancholy fool.
•In the Elizabethan era, melancholy,
much like depression today, was
treated as an illness.
10. As You
Like It
•In this speech he examines the
changes that occur over the course of
a man’s life: infancy, childhood, lover,
soldier, justice, old age, extreme old
age
•He explains that during one lifetime a
man “plays many parts,” much like an
actor or “player.”
11. As You
Like It Vocabulary used:
-mewling and puking: crying and being sick
-whining: making a complaining, miserable
noise
-creeping like a snail: moving slowly like a
snail
-furnace: enclosed fireplace for heating
metals
12. As You
Like It
-woeful: sad
-oaths: swear words, rude words
- severe: a strict in judgment; sober
-justice: judge
-mere oblivion: dimentia/forgetfulness
13. As You
Like It
Negative criticism of each of the seven
people who…
Sad
Melancholic
Cynical
•keeps on complaining
•wants fame so much that he’ll probably kill
himself?
•looks rather ridiculous?
•sounds and smell awful?
•probably wouldn’t notice either the wound or
the smell?
•will probably mature with age?
•sounds a real bore?
14. English
Character
Five General Notes:
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1. Middle class
2. Public school system (developed bodies and
mind, but undeveloped hearts)
3. Bottling up of emotions (cold one)
4. Slowness of the English character
5. Hypocrisy on English character
15. English
Character
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The monologue is an extended metaphor,
suggesting that there are plethora of emotions,
actions and people in them.
That both drama and real life are similar not
superficially but in great depths, even down to
their structures.
16. English
Character
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English character is incomplete; the coldness is
caused by machinery
It is important to understand the English characters
and the different people in the world.
