A Shakespeare Sonnet

A SHAKESPEARE SONNET

From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never dieBut as the riper should by time decease, His tender hair might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed’st thy foe, to thy sweet self-substancial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding. Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.

William Shakespeare

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE LITERATURE TRAGEDIES          

Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus

HISTORIES          

king Henry IV Part 1 king Henry IV Part 2 King Henry V King Henry VI Part 1 King Henry VI Part 2 King Henry VI Part 3 King Henry VIII King john Richard II Richard III

COMEDIES       

All’s Well That Ends Well As You Like It Comedy Of Errors Cymbeline Love’s Labour’s Lost Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice

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Merry Wives of Windsor Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre Taming of the Shrew Tempest Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Two Gentlemaen of Verona Winter’s Tale

POETRY          

A Lover’s Complaint Sonnets 1-30 Sonnets 31-60 Sonnets 61-90 Sonnets 91-120 Sonnets 121-154 The Passionate Pilgrim The Pheonix and the Turtle The Rape of Lucrece Venus and Adonis

SHAKESPEARE ‘S LIFE

William Shakespeare was born in 1564, in Sratford-upon-Avon, located in the centre of England. The register of Stratford’s Holy Trinity Church records Shakespeare’s baptism on 26 April. He is traditionally said to have been born on 23 April. His father, John was a glove maker and married Mary Arden. They set home in Stratford, in the house now Known as Shakespeare’s Birthplace. William left school probably at the age of fourteen, as was usual. In November 1582 he married Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer. He was eighteen and Anne was twenty-six. They had three children, a daughter, Susanna, followed by the twins Judith and Hamnet two years later.

Seven years later Shakespeare is recognized as an actor and a poet. Shakespeare’s reputation was established in London by 1592. His first printed works were two long poems; most of the sonnets were probably written about this time, although they were not published until 1609. For almost twenty years Shakespeare was its regular dramatist, producing on average two plays a year. Shakespeare’s success in the London Theatres made him wealthy and in 1597 he bought New Place, one of the largest houses in Stratford. Although his professional career was spent in London, he maintained close links with his native town. Some of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies were written in the early 1600s. His late plays, date from c. 1608 to 1612. Shakespeare died in Stratford, aged fifty-two, on 23 April 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church two days later. His widow, Anne, died in 1623 and was buried beside him. Shakespeare’s family line came to an end with the death of his granddaughter Elizabeth in 1670.

Bibliography

Diciopédia 2002, Porto Editora

www. Online-literature.com

www.shakespeare.org.uk/about

William Shakespeare Teacher’s name: Drª. Anabela Rosa 1st Term year: 2002/2003

Adriana Pereira 9º B, nº 1