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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - MAIN THEMES
        
        Shakeaspeare's sonnets are 154.
        
        TWO MAIN ANDDRESSEES
        
        Fair Youth
        
        Dark lady
        
        Brevity of man's life
        
        Sonnet 15
        
        Immortality
        
        Sonnet 18 + Sonnet 15
        
        Beauty
        
        Sonnet 18
        
        Power of poetry to overcome death
        
        Love
        
        Sonnet 130
    - - Written in iambic pentameter.
      - 3 quatrains + 1couplet.
- - - - 1582: He married a local woman, Anne Hathaway.
        
        1592: He was active as a playwright in London.
        
        1599: Shakespeare's company opened its theatre, The Globe.
        
        1603: shakespeare's company became known as ' King' s Men'.
- - - - They deal with tragic destiny of mankind; focus on human foolishness.
        
        Macbeth (1606)
    - - They contain magic and supernatural elements; deal with the contrast between virtues and vices.
        
        The Tempest (1611)
    - - They deal with dark and pessimistic themes; focus on the working of the mind of the characters.
        
        Hamlet (1601)
    - - They deal with mistake identities, marriage and have a happy ending.
        
        A Midsmusser Night's Dream (1595)
    - - They deal with Roman history, show exemplary characters; analyse power.
        
        Julius Caesar (1599)
    - - They deal with English history and show a portrait of Medieval and Modern England.
        
        Richard III (1593)