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43 lines
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- [Shall i compare thee](Shall%20i%20compare%20thee.md)
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- [A woman's face with nature's own hand painted](A%20woman's%20face%20with%20nature's%20own%20hand%20painted.md)
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- [Romeo and Juliet](Romeo%20and%20Juliet.md)
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- [Power and Ambition in Shakespeare](Power%20and%20Ambition%20in%20Shakespeare.md)
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# Biography
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Shakespeare born in **Stratford upon Avon**.
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It moved to London because he was an Actor, but the plague made the theatres closed and he started to write sonnets.
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London was one of the biggest city in the world, and Elizabeth encouraged the cultural development.
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He joined the King's Men.
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Shakespeare died in 1616.
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7 years later has been published **The First Folio**, that's the first collection of 36 plays. Before of it, there were no plays published because they wanted to preserve the right to play it only in their own theatres.
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The First Folio contained:
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- **The Histories**: was about the idea of leadership, it contained:
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- roman history (Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra)
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- English history (Richard III)
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- **Tragedy**
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# Works
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The main differences from Italian's sonnets is that the women were treated in a more realistic way.
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All the Shakespeare plays are divided into 5 acts:
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## The sonnets
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In the sonnets there are 2 addressee;
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- The Fair Youth
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- Named "WH"
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- His Friend
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- His patron (il mecenate)
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- Courtly love
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- More romantic
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- The dark lady
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- Passionate love
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- She betrayed him
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# Italian vs English sonnets
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| | Italian | English |
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| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| Authors | Iacopo da Lentini, Dante, Petrarca, \[...] | Shakespeare |
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| Layout | 2 quatrins e 2 tercets | 3 quatrins and a couplet |
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| Meter | 11 syllables | Iambic Pentameter (5x2 syllabes) |
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| Theme | Courtly love, death | Courtly love with sexual references, death, explores gender and sexuality |
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| Character of lover | Angelical, abstract | Angelical, ordinary |
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| Language | High, refined, abstract | concrete |
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