Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему W.Shakespeare ( 9класс)

Shakespeare is the greatest of all playwrights and poets of all times. The last half of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries are known as the golden age of English literature. Sometimes it is called “the age of Shakespeare”.

1564, in Stratford-on-Avon. At the age of 6 he was sent to school, but had to leave it at the age of 13 and never went to school again. His father who couldn’t even write was a glove-maker. William helped him in his trade. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hatheway. Ann was 8 years older than her husband and their marriage wasn’t happy. They had 3 children.

liked to watch them. He was fond of their profession and he decided to become an actor. When he was 21 he went to London. There he became an actor. He began to write plays too. He worked in the modern theatre “Globe”. 14 years later he became a part owner of the Globe theatre in London.

1599, burned down in 1613 and immediately rebuilt. It was a round building with the stage in the centre, open to the sky. If it was raining, the actors got wet; if the weather was too bad, there was no performance at all. It was closed in 1642.

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Shakespeare’s experience as an actor helped him greatly in the writing of his plays. His knowledge of stage and his poetical genius made his plays the most wonderful ones ever written.
Shakespeare wrote:
37 plays;
17 comedies,
10 historical plays
7 books of poems.
2 long poems and 154 sonnets.

of Shakespeare’s plays were not original.
He took them from the works of other authors,
history, old legends, novels and poems.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
Twelfth Night
Merry Wives of Windsor

Tragedies:

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
Julies Caesar
Antony and Cleopatra

the houses where he lived can be visited regularly.