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=William Shakespeare'sTragedies and Poetry= == = =

=DEFINITIONS!!= *TRAGEDY-a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society, to downfall or destruction. *POETRY-the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.

Birth: Unknown

Death: April 23, 1616 The [|Chandos portrait], artist and authenticity

===Tragedies: Writing tragedies composed most of his early writing career, his first was Titus Andronicus, a story about the vendetta of a Roman General and the Queen of the Goths.===


 * // [|Romeo and Juliet] //
 * // [|Coriolanus] //
 * // [|Titus Andronicus] //
 * // [|Timon of Athens] //
 * // [|Julius Caesar] //
 * // [|Macbeth] //
 * // [|Hamlet] //
 * // [|Troilus and Cressida] //
 * // [|King Lear] //
 * // [|Othello] //
 * // [|Antony and Cleopatra] //
 * // [|Cymbeline] //

Poetry:

 * // [|Shakespeare's Sonnets] //
 * // [|Venus and Adonis] //
 * //__ [|The Rape of Lucrece] __//
 * // [|The Passionate Pilgrim] //
 * // [|The Phoenix and the Turtle] //
 * // [|A Lover's Complaint] //

in 1582 William Shakespeare wrote his first poem. in 1594 and 1594, when the theaters were closed because of plague. Shakespeare published two narrative poems on erotic themes.

William Shakespeare also wrote 154 sonnets as well(which is a type of poem). All of his sonnets are titled with sonnet an whatever number it is and then it does consist of a title (ex: Sonnet18 called __Shall I compare thee to a summers day?)__ The sonnet form used by Shakespeare, composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern //abab cdcd efef gg.//

Shakespeare's sonnet were mostly written about love and almost all of them were written about whom they were dedicated to. The sonnets were also dedicated to "Mr.W.H.", the identity of "Mr.W.H." remains unknown, the only thing we know is it is a male.

Sonnet 116- __Let me not to the marriage of true minds__ is one of the most famous sonnets ever written by Shakespeare and one of the most famous ever written by anyone.

Sonnet 138
code When my Loue swears that she is made of truth, I do beleeue her (though I know she lies) That she might thinke me some vntutor'd youth, Vnskilful in the worlds false forgeries. Thus vainly thinking that she thinkes me young, Although I know my yeares be past the best: I smiling, credite her false speaking toung, Outfacing faults in loue, with loues ill rest. But wherefore sayes my loue that she is young? And wherefore say not I, that I am old: O, Loues best habit's in a soothing toung, And Age in loue, loues not to haue yeares told. Therefore I'le lye with Loue, and loue with me, Since that our faultes in loue thus smother'd be.

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First Five Sonnets

 * Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase
 * Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
 * Sonnet 3: Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest
 * Sonnet 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
 * Sonnet 5: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame


 * The theme of all Shakespeare's sonnets are all about love.**

BY: Tiffany Hajduk. Quaid Dolan. William Vogus. Larry Shontz. Anthony Parker. Joey Ritchey.