William shakespeare

                             - the bard* of avon
(1564-1616)

quotes

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
                                                                                                         - lustful, big-mouthed Lucio (Measure for Measure)

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
                                                                                                       - introvert, depression-loving Jaques (As You Like It)

To be, or not to be, that is the question.
                                                                                                      - bitter, revengeful Prince Hamlet (Hamlet)
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Background information for clip 1.
*The Bard = William Shakespeare is sometimes called the Bard or the Bard of Avon, since he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon
A playwright = someone who writes plays
A play = a story performed on a stage by actors
​To attempt = to try

will he is
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Biography.....an introductory paragraph...

do you use shakespearean slang?

expressions

words

insults
All that glitters isn't gold.
​It's Greek to me.
Fair play.
Break the ice.
Heart of gold.
Clothes make the man.
Love is blind.
​Knock, knock! Who's there?
Off with his head.
Devil incarnate.
Lie low.
Unreal.
Full circle.
For goodness' sake.
Brave new world.
Green-eyed monster.
​Kill with kindness.
​Play fast and loose.
As merry as the day is long.
You've got to be cruel to be kind.
Wear my heart upon my sleeve.
Eaten me out of house and home.
Cold-blooded
Half-blooded
Hot-blooded
Gossip
Birthplace
Torture
Worthless
​Unreal
Bandit
Fashionable
Ladybird
Manager
Lonely
​Secure
Undress
  • Thou elvish-mark'd, abortive, rooting hog!
  • Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon!
  • Away, you starvelling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's-tongue, bull's-pizzle, you stock-fish!
  • I'll beat thee, but I would infect my hands!
  • I am sick when I do look on thee!
  • Would thou wouldst burst!
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romeo and juliet

a clan match the shakespeare way

The capulets 1 - 0 the montagues

the balcony scene

famous couples

shake it till you make it

  • thou = you (singular subject)
  • ye = you (plural subject)
  • thee = you (object, "to you")
  • thine/thy = your
  • art = are
  • 'tis = it is
  • 'twas = it was
  • wast = were
  • dost = do
  • doth = does
  • hast = have
  • ay = yes
  • nay = no
  • wherefore = why
  • hence = from here
  • would (he were) = I wish (he were)
  • anon = in a moment

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.
      So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
      So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
                                                                                         (Sonnet 18)
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My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks,
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go,
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
      And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
      As any she belied with false compare. 
                                                                 (Sonnet 130)

animated plays

romeo and juliet

macbeth

a midsummer night's dream

hamlet

​Twelfth Night

much ado about nothing

Kildehenvisninger

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Oppdatert: 28.10.18