Who is William Shakespeare?

1.- Talk in groups of 4 and note down at least 4 ideas about William Shakespeare?

RSC : Biography of William Shakespeare

a)...Note that no volume is complete without a brief biography of William Shakespeare. Providing this __________ of the performance would be the 3rd member of the Reduced Shakespeare Company. Please welcome to _______ ___________ Mr. Adam Long. b)Oh shit!.. Let me get it, they are going in order, so just let me do it. I got it. OK so What I did was... Ive just written a few notes on Shakespeares life just to get the show a good start. Just to make sure everybody knows the _____________ that he did, and everything. So you can see Im not actually an audience member. I completely fooled here. c) OK. OK. William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was born in _________ in the town of Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire. The third of 8 children, he was the oldest son of John Shakespeare, a locally prominent merchant and ___________ Arden, daughter of a Roman... catholic member of the landed gentler. d) In 1582, he married Ann Hathaway. Shakespeare arrived in London in __________ and by 1592 he had achieved success as an actor and a playwright. e) After 1608, his dramatic production lessened and it seems that he spent more time in ___________. There, he dictated to a secretary his last work Main Kampf in which he set his program for the restoration of Germany to a ___________ position in Europe. f)After reoccupying the Rhine zone between France, Germany and annexing Austria the cedating land and the remain of Czechoslovakia, Shakespeare invaded Poland on ______________ 4th 1939, thus precipitating __________ __________ ____. g) I never knew that before. h) Shakespeare remained in Berlin when the Russians entered the city on April 1st, _____________ and committed suicide with his mistress Eva Pern. He lays buried in the church of Stratford. "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare -- EXTRA/CREDIT! -- from 60second Recap 1.- OK, check this out. Hamlet has puzzled scholars like for centuries, and Im not saying Ive got it ____ ______ _____ _____, not by far. 2.- But If I told you I had one more inside that could help you understand this play a _________ _______ _______, would you be willing to stick out the next 60 sec. 3.- Less than ______________ lines into this play, Shakespeare gave in to his readers a wapping big clue. Its Hamlets line to the queen in act one scene two when he __________ they are actions that a man might play

4.- _________ _________ ______, Hamlet is a play about play acting 5.- If youve been watching all along you already know that Shakespeare uses Hamlet to explore lifes and certainties and _____________. The play is __________ ____ play acting and helps to reinforce these themes. 5.- _________ _______ _____. Another word for acting is pretending. And, what are you doing when you are pretending? you are not __________ _________ to who you really are. You are becoming another character. 6.- That is what happens in Hamlet. The actors ____ ___ ____ like they are acting. Like the guy who plays Claudius. We know that Claudius is actually really a ___________ guy but he pretends to be concerned for Hamlet all the while he is plotting him with his death. 7.- _____ ______, thinking of this is a play of playing helps you understand its themes, and what hamlet faces. It also helps to explain why this play remains somewhat of a mystery. 8.- You might say Shakespeare was playing at _______ _____
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