Презентация для урока "Жизнь и творчество Уильяма Шекспира"

of the XVII centuries are known as the golden age

of English literature. It was the time of the English Renaissance, and sometimes it is even called “the age of Shakespeare”.

and probably the greatest playwright who has ever lived, was

born in Stratford on Avon, on the 23rd of April, 1564.

reason to believe that he was educated at the local

Grammar School, where the course of education was based primarily on classical studies. Shakespeare knew Latin classics, and used repeatedly Latin texts in his plays and poems. In his time Latin texts were memorized and recited by all English schoolboys.

Shottery, the daughter of a well-to-do farmer. She was seven

years his senior. They had three children – Susanna, and the twins, Judith and Hamnet. A few years later after his marriage, about the year 1587, Shakespeare left his native town for London. London was the city of navigators, philosophers and poets. In 1588 colossal Spanish Armada was destroyed. Great English explorers were conquering the world. Shakespeare shared the feelings of enthusiasm and patriotism.

where he prepared old plays for public performances and earned

his living as an actor.

of his plays. His knowledge of the stage and his

poetical genius made his plays the most wonderful ones ever written.
During the years 1592-1594, the theatres in London were closed because of the epidemic of the plague. Shakespeare stayed in London where he wrote and published his love poem “Venus and Adonis” in 1593, and the sequence of sonnets which were published in 1609.

Juliet”

Some of them may have been lost in the fire

when the “Globe” burned down in 1613 during the performance of “Henry VIII”.

of subjects: they are poems of love and loss, death,

and ruthless age. But there are two major themes: the force of love, and the battle between the power of time and the timelessness of poetry.

his life Shakespeare spent in Stratford as a respectful and

wealthy citizen. He died on the 23rd of April 1616.

month before his death he wrote his will.

On his tomb

there are four lines which are said to have been written by William Shakespeare:
Good friend for Jesus sake forbear, To dig the dust enclosed here. Blest be the man that spares thesе stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.

Друг, ради Господа, не рой Останков, взятых сей землёй; Не тронувший блажен в веках, И проклят — тронувший мой прах. (Перевод А. Величанского)

Abbey; only a monument was erected to his memory in

the Poets’ Corner.