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William Shakespeare: Creations and Innovations
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Who was he?
- Wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets
The most famous plays: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Julius Caesar
- He became a successful actor and playwright through his use of language, and is known as the greatest English writer of all time
Shakespeare's Creations
-Globe Theater-
- Shakespeare, created his own theater on the River Thames in 1599 and named it the Globe Theater
- The stage was 43 feet wide and 28 feet deep
- Houses trap doors in its flooring and rigging systems overhead for stage effects
- In 1613, the original Globe Theater burned to the ground when a cannon shot during a performance- a company completed a new Globe on the foundation before Shakespeare passed away
The Globe
-Present Day-
reopened for performances in 1997
William Shakespeare
-Creations & Innovations-
Shakespeare's Creations
-Impact on Psychology-
- William Freud used Hamlet as a base for many of his theories on human nature
- Looked at his knowledge of human frailty
Shakespeare's Creations
-Impact on the Film Industry-
- Othello, Macbeth, and Romeo & Juliet were an instant hit with Elizabethan audiences
- Hollywood script writer quickly latched onto his plots and icons and cast popular actors to play those roles
Shakespeare's Creations
-Poetry-
April 23, 1564- April 23, 1616
- Turned to poetry when the plague forced the theaters to shut down
- Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day, Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds, and Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun are some of his most famous works
- His sonnets were very intimate on the values of love, lust, procreation, and death.
Shakespeare's Creations
-Influence on the English Language-
-Introduced upwards of 1,700 original words
- Lonely, frugal, and dwindle originated from him
- Many common phrases also originated from his works
- Breaking the ice, heart of gold, and wild goose chase are from him as well