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    William Shakespeare was an English writer born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote comedies, histories, tragedies, and romantic plays. Some of his most famous works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. Hamlet tells the story of the Prince of Denmark who seeks revenge against his uncle for murdering his father and marrying his mother. It ends tragically with many main characters dying by poison. Shakespeare's plays were performed at theaters in London like the Globe Theatre, an open-air playhouse built in 1599.

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    William Shakespeare was an English writer born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote comedies, histories, tragedies, and romantic plays. Some of his most famous works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. Hamlet tells the story of the Prince of Denmark who seeks revenge against his uncle for murdering his father and marrying his mother. It ends tragically with many main characters dying by poison. Shakespeare's plays were performed at theaters in London like the Globe Theatre, an open-air playhouse built in 1599.

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    Presentazione Shakespeare

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    William Shakespeare was an English writer born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote comedies, histories, tragedies, and romantic plays. Some of his most famous works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. Hamlet tells the story of the Prince of Denmark who seeks revenge against his uncle for murdering his father and marrying his mother. It ends tragically with many main characters dying by poison. Shakespeare's plays were performed at theaters in London like the Globe Theatre, an open-air playhouse built in 1599.

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    William Shakespeare

    Life
    William Shakespeare is a very He was born on the 23th Shakespeare married
    famous English writer april 1564 Ann Hathaway in 1582
    Shakespeare’s father
    made gloves
    historical context
    Some time between 1586 and 1592 They performed his plays at the Globe
    left Stratford and moved to London Theatre , south of the River Thames

    Left to London around 1613


    Opera
    History plays Comedy plays Tragedy plays Romantic plays

    - Henry VI - The Twelfth Night - Julius Caesar - Pericles


    - Richard III - As You Like It - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet
    - King John - Troilus and Cressida - King Lear - Cymbeline
    The Globe
    Theatres were round, with an The original Globe Theatre
    open ruf burnt down in 1614.

    This is a modern
    reproduction of the theatre
    in London.

    New theatre was built in 1999


    Hamlet
    The story is set in Denmark, and its main character is Hamlet, prince of Denmark and heir to
    the throne after the father’s death. His father's death is accompanied by the upcoming
    wedding between his mother Gertrude with Claudio, brother of the king, and the love for the
    beautiful Ofelia. All these events cause in Hamlet a deep melancholy that he will not be able
    to get off. But one night, his father's spirit appears to him and asks a revenge revealing that
    he has been poisoned and killed by his brother Claudio. The young prince doubts about the
    realness of that spectrum, which could be the result of his melancholy, so decides to pretend
    crazy and observing Claudio's behaviors is convinced of his guilt. He wants to reveal
    everything to his mother but he isn’t able to do it because he discovered to be spied by
    someone and sure that there was Claudio, he kills Polonio, the chamberlain of the kingdom
    and young Ophelia father, who can’t stand it and suicides. Laerte moved by Claudio, defies
    Hamlet in a duel. It is precisely here that the whole story ends tragically: Claudio throws
    poison on a sword, and also in a cup of wine, which Gertrude drinks and dies, both Laerte
    and Hamlet hit with the poisoned sword but before dying Hamlet asks forgiveness to Laerte
    and is able to kill Claudio, by acting the revenge, which his father wanted.

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