William Shakespeare (2 h 2 m, 30 sept 1564 año – 11 h 26 m, 17 jul 1616 año)

Descripción:

- He was born in April 1564
- He had daughter and twins
- He writes books, entrepreneur
- Poet
- He died on his birthday 1616
- Talked about human´s condition
- He created new words, 3000 a year
- Famous books: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, 12th night, much ado about nothing – the most of his genre is love
- He had written 154 sonnets and the most famous one is sonnet 116.
- He lived in the Renaissance era.

Love´s not time´s fool (sonnet 116)

Read & react:

1. What happens with “rosy lips and cheeks” after some time?

After some time, rosy lips and cheeks will disappear, but love need to be still love. Even if the beauty is not there, love need to be and not passion.

2. What is said about true love in this sonnet? Give three examples.

- It is an ever-fixed mark.
- It is the star to every wandering bark.
- Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, bur bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Reflect & share:
3. Explain how Time´s a symbol for death in Shakespeare´s sonnet 116.

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Because when you are on the edge of doom, you are on the edge of death, something is going to change.

4. In pairs, translate Shakespeare´s sonnet to today´s modern English.

I would not admit that anything could interfere with the union of two people who love each other. Love that alters with changing circumstances is not love, nor if it bends from its firm state when someone tries to destroy it. Oh no, it’s an eternally fixed point that watches storms but is never itself shaken by them. It is the star by which every lost ship can be guided: one can calculate its distance but not gauge its quality. Love doesn’t depend on Time, although the rosy lips and cheeks of youth eventually come within the compass of Time’s sickle. Love doesn’t alter as the days and weeks go by but endures until death. If I’m wrong about this, then I’ve never written anything, and no man has ever loved.

Some of Shakespears most famous plays were first performed at the Globe Theatre, there he also worked as a playwright and a minor performer. The Globe was built on the south bank of the River Thames in 1599. It was that time when London was growing fast.


Shakespeare in love
We were in Stockhlm and watched a thetre " Shakespeare in love", there he was a writer and he were supposed to hand in one script. Paople were there to try to play a Romeo on the thetre but just one of them managed, it was Viola. Viola was a girl from very rich family, and she liked William Skakspeares scripts, she could all of them in her mind.
The William and Viola was in love with eachother, but she was supposed to marry another man, which she diden´t love. When they were on their way to Virginia, Viola wanted to watch the thatre. Because of that, they diden´t had a Julia or Romeo for their thatre, so William and Viola needed to help them and play like Romeo and Juliet.

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