William Shakespeare’s�Work of literature

1^st Primary School of Orestiada

Class: ST.2

Teacher: Tsimpliaraki Martha

William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare

He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist

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William Shakespeare

He moved to London around

1591 and became an actor

William Shakespeare

• Along with acting he also wrote some of the most renowned and studied literature written in the English language

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• Poems famous for his sonnets

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• Plays-comedies, Tragedies and Histories

William Shakespeare�Comedies

• All’s well that ends well
• As you like it
• Comedy of errors
• Measure for Measure
• Midsummer night’s dream
• Taming of the Shrew
• Much Ado about nothing
• Twelfth Night
• Merchant of Venice

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William Shakespeare�Tragedies

• Julius Caesar
• Hamlet
• Macbeth
• Othello
• Romeo and Juliet
• King Lear

William Shakespeare�Histories

• King Henry V
• King John
• Richard II
• Richard III

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William Shakespeare�Works of literature

• He wrote 37 successful plays

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• His vocabulary was HUGE! Somewhere between 17.000 and 34.000 words!

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• The estimated vocabulary of an educated person today is around 15.000 words

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William Shakespeare�Works of literature

• He had an amazing influence on our English Language!

�Have you heard these phrases?

• I couldn’t sleep a wink.
• He was dead as a doornail.
• She’s a tower of strength.
• We’d better lie low for awhile.
• I am constant as the Northern star.
• It’s all Greek to me.

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More words that first appeared in his plays

• accommodation lonely
• assassination gloomy
• dexterously fretful
• dislocate suspicious
• obscene hurry
• reliance premeditate

Globe Theatre

• Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain’s Men performed at Burbage’s theater until 1599, when they built their own playhouse,

the Globe

• Shakespeare reffered to the Globe as
• ‘ this Wooden O’ a term that led scholars to believe it was a circular building

Globe Theater

• Attending Shakespeare’s theater was quite different from attending theater today, which is thought of as very quiet and austere

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• In Elizabethan England it was a noisy, popular gathering place for people of all ages and from all walks of life.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's plays are as popular as they are because he was perhaps the greatest writer who has ever lived.

Keremi Iro Segou Rafailia

Kostoudis Panagiotis Tzemintimpi Marianna

Marasli Xanthipe Tzemintimpis Fotios

Mihaloudi Dimitra Tziortas Christos

Moura Isidora Tilaveridis Georgios

Barboudis Ioannis Tsakmakis Vasilios

Bletas Panagiotis Tsaknaki Konstantina

Daltsidi Evangelia Tsahvatze Mihalis

Ouzounidis Evangelos Tsonidi Christina

Pavlopolos Vasilis Taxiarhis

Polymenis Theodoros

Pontouroueva Nina

Pirtsios Taxiarhis

Segos Nikolaos

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