William Shakespeare (23 abr 1564 año – 23 abr 1616 año)
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William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and was an entrepreneur, great business man, playwriter, poet, dramatist.
Some of his famous plays is Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, 12th Night, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing. In his work the main themes were drama, comedy, love.
He was the first one to make these themes (especially love) to be the main theme in the theatres and the literature. Love had never been a serious theme before Shakespeare made it.
He wasn´t only famous for his plays but also his 154 sonnets, one of them is Sonnet 116. Sonnets was one word that he made up that means poems. Shakespeare is widely considered the world's greatest dramatist.
Answers to questions about Sonnet 116:
1. After some time “rosy lips and cheeks” changes. It means that time will change how we look and if is changes whether we are in love or not, it was not true love from the beginning, because true love never changes
2. Three examples of what is said about true love is that you never can erase it, it is always there, also that love is there to direct us.
3. In the sonnet it says “Love´s not Time´s fool” and the time is a symbol for death in this case. Love is something beautiful and not something meaningless.
4. Modern English translation of a part in the sonnet: Love isn’t really love if it changes when the beloved change. Love is a constant and unchanging light and it shines in storms without being shaken. It is a star that guides boats.
Shakespeare, words and pronunciation:
He invented at least 3000 words to the English language, for example lonely, luggage, countless, eyeball, green-eyed, elbow, fashionable, assassination. His vocabulary was the largest of any writer. He was changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes.
He also changed the spelling or pronunciation of words to make it rhyme, in the sonnets for example.
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