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Post by brandonina on Jan 18, 2015 11:54:07 GMT
Since we are starting to read Shakespeare's work, let's learn more about him!
Can you guys share just one fact about Shakespeare?
For me, I got to learn that Shakespeare first started his career in a theater!
I thought that was really interesting because when we think of Shakespeare, we just think of him as a writer whose works are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and etc.
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Post by hansoo on Jan 18, 2015 12:04:38 GMT
Shakespeare is the second most quoted writer in the English language. This shows the influence of his work to rest of the world, since after his death.
Any guess for number 1?
It is a writer of the Bible.
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Post by chrishong on Jan 18, 2015 12:32:54 GMT
Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway had three children together: Hamnet(son), who died early because of Black Plague in 1596, and two daughters, Susanna and Judith. Shakespeare didn't have descendants because his granddaughter Elizabeth(daughter of Susanna), died childless in 1670.
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Post by elisalee on Jan 18, 2015 12:32:53 GMT
Shakespeare disappears from historical records between 1585 and 1592. It remains a mystery to historians exactly what the writer did during those seven year. He also married to an older woman named Anne Hathaway, who was three months pregnant at that time. These are the facts that I found that were pretty interesting.
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Post by anyuchen on Jan 18, 2015 12:34:38 GMT
Shakespeare write many well-known books such as a midsummer hight's dream, romeo and juliet, the merchant of Venice, Hamlet and the tragedy of Macbeth. He, Aeschylus,Sophocles,and Euripides are called the best tragedy writter in history.
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Post by sanhakim95 on Jan 18, 2015 12:35:59 GMT
Shakespeare is one of the best play writers who wrote a lot of plays and sonnets. The history says Shakespeare achieved greatly on English literature. The first English literature I had read was "Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare," and It was interesting enough for me to read his other works.
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Post by daniel on Jan 18, 2015 12:43:51 GMT
SInce i had to do research about the Globe Theater, i found out that Shakespeare's plays were played in the theater. And one of his play As You Like It reworded the Globe Theater's motto, the whole world is a playhouse.
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Post by justink on Jan 18, 2015 12:53:44 GMT
throughout Shakespeare's life he wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets while conducting a full business life, running and managing the theater. On top of that Shakespeare cared for his family and maintained his social life as well.
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Post by bachle on Jan 18, 2015 13:11:10 GMT
We have learned about Shakespeare's poem and most of them are about love and he created many words in English as well.
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Post by estherchoi on Jan 18, 2015 13:17:38 GMT
Shakespeare made a lot of English words. The words he invented in his plays are almost 3,000. Examples are blushing, countless, champion, and more.
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Post by sergeyfen on Jan 18, 2015 13:18:54 GMT
We almost always know how previous famous people died or what was the cause of it, but no one knows the cause or how Shakespeare died.
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Post by mirim002 on Jan 18, 2015 13:28:43 GMT
There has been questions on whether Shakespeare was bisexual, or not. This was questioned, because of his sonnets. People assumed that the sonnets might have been addressed to men.
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Post by lukejoo on Jan 18, 2015 13:36:13 GMT
Shakespeare was a playwright who used the 5 act play. All of his plays follow this simple structure: exposition -> rising action -> climax -> falling action -> resolution. This is the reason why his plays have 5 acts, one to fit each one.
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Post by agneslianaputri on Jan 18, 2015 13:54:05 GMT
All Uranus satellites are named after Shakespearean characters. Whoa.
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Post by jimim on Jan 18, 2015 14:40:56 GMT
Shakespeare is from England and he was not born in London so he had less cultural influence from London. Also he got married when he was 18 years old and he married a women that is older than him
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