SHAKESPEARE'S LEGACY

SHAKESPEARES CONTEMPORARIES✒️

• Christopher Marlowe
• Francis Beaumont
• John Fletcher
• Thomas Middleton
• Thomas Kyd

CONTEMPORARIES CONTINUED✒️

• Ben Jonson
• King James I
• Philip Massinger
• John Webster

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CONTEMPORARIES INFLUENCE

• English sonnet- : a sonnet consisting of
• three quatrains and a couplet with a rhyme
• scheme of abab cdcd efef gg
• Shakespeare's play-writing methodology was
• inspired by King James I belief in the divine right of kings

SHAKESPEARE'S WRITING STYLE📜

• Used a metrical pattern called blank verse
• Most of his plays where made using blank verse
• He wrote in iambic pentameter:
• A series of stressed and unstressed words

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• A common device Shakespeare used to tell his
• stories was a soliloquy or monologue
• An example of Shakespeare's soliloquy:
• "To be or not to be, that is the question."

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• William Shakespear is one of Literature's Greatest legacies
• He wrote many different sources of Literature like poems and plays
• They have meanings that teach us lessons
• Most of his plays are to entertain us

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• He is known throughout the United States
• People can relate to theses stories like love and hate
• People can also talk about it and everybody would know who wrote it

Shakespeare, though over 400 years old, is still relevant today in many ways. His themes are often more than just death, love, and power, are still very accessible. It’s no surprise that because of this, there have been plenty of modern adaptions of his plays. Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language has changed the way that words are used. Shakespeare often played fast and loose with prefixes and suffixes making villains more nefarious as “arch-villains,” and dubbing people who manage things as “managers”. In doing so he added over 1,700 words to the modern English language. Like alien autopsies and the second gunman, the belief that someone other than a glover's son from Stratford wrote William Shakespeare's plays is a conspiracy theory that refuses to die.

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Doubters started questioning the true identity of the writer in the late 19th century. Some scholars claim that members of Shakespeare's family were Catholics, at a time when Catholic practice was against the law. Shakespeare's mother, Mary Arden, certainly came from a pious Catholic family. The strongest evidence might be a Catholic statement of faith signed by John Shakespeare, found in 1757 in the rafters of his former house in Henley Street. The document is now lost, however, and scholars argue about its authenticity. One of the reasons there are so many mysteries about Shakespeare us because there are so many plot holes in his story. There are times when his whereabouts are unknown and he's seems to have disappeared.