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HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT SHAKESPEARE ?

  • Which Shakespeare play about two young lovers was turned into a ballet with music by Prokofiev?
  • What was the name of the king who decided to divide his lands among his three daughters?
  • Hamlet was Prince of what country?
  • Apart from writing his plays,Shakespeare had another job connected with the theatre.What was his other job?
  • In one of Shakespeare´s plays,which was made into an opera by Verdi,a black man marries a white woman.What is the name of the play?
  • In which Italian city did the character Shylock the merchant live?
  • There is a tradition among British actors that if you say the name of one of Shakespeare´s plays it brings bad luck,so actors refer to the play as the “Scottish play”.What is the name of the play? (Write it,don´t say it!)

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 and died in the same month in 1616.He wrote 37 plays but the first collection of his plays wasn´t published until seven years after his death and it wasn´t until another 100 years had passed that he was fully recognised as a genius.

Many expressions used in modern English come from Shakespeare´s plays.Some of Shakespeare´s lines are so familiar that they have become part of the language; they belong to everyone: «TO BE OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS THE QUESTION» is a perfect example.

Here are some other quotes which even people who have never seen or read a Shakespeare play in their lives will recognise:

«SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK» (Hamlet)

«ALL THE WORLD´S A STAGE AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS» (As You Like It)

«ALL´S WELL THAT ENDS WELL» (All´s Well That Ends Well)

«I MUST BE CRUEL, ONLY TO BE KIND» (Hamlet)

«BUT LOVE IS BLIND, AND LOVERS CANNOT SEE» (The Merchant of Venice)

«A HORSE! A HORSE! MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE!» (Richard III)

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

WALKING IN SHAKESPEARE´S PATH

Hamlet’s Soliloquy: To be, or not to be: that is the question (3.1.64-98).

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer (65)
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks (70)
That flesh is heir to, ‘tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, (75)
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despis’d love, the law’s delay, (80)
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life, (85)
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover’d country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of? (90)
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry, (95)
And lose the name of action.– Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember’d.

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