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William Shakespeare

(1564 1616)

The life of William Shakespeare

W. Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon. His father was a glove-maker. William went to a grammar school and had a good education. There he learned to love reading.
William married when he was still a teenager. His wife, Anne Hathaway, was several years older than he was. He earned his living helping his father in the family business. He had three children when he left for London in 1587. Some people say that the reason he had left his wife and children was his love to poetry and theatre.

In London Shakespeare began to act and to write plays and soon became an important member of a well-known acting company. Most of his plays were performed in the Globe Theatre, built on the bank of the River Thames. In 1613 he stopped writing and went back to live in Stratford. There he died in 1616.

Shakespeare's Birthplace
Holy Trinity Church
Shakespeare's Grammar School
Anne Hathaway's Cottage
The Royal Shakespeare Company

April 23rd, Shakespeare’s birthday, is the greatest day in the year at Stratford.The largest crowd gathers here on the Bard’s birthday. This is the day when William Shakespeare was born and , by a strange coincidence, died.

Stratford is now famous for its Shakespeare festivals. Every year a lot of people come to Stratford for the Festival season which lasts from April to September.

Among other sights connected with the name of Shakespeare there is an interesting monument with the statue of the great poet on the top and with characters from his plays round it.

The most famous plays written byShakespeare

1590-1593 " The Taming of the Shrew “
1593 "The Comedy of Errors“
1595 “Romeo and Juliet“
1596 “A Midsummer Night‘s Dream“
1599 “Julius Caesar“
1600 “As You Like It“
1600 “Twelfth Night“
1601 “Hamlet“
1603 “All’s Well That Ends Well"
1604 “Othello”
1606 “ King Lear”

But with all his works as a playwright, William Shakespeare is also known as the author of different sonnets, which are devoted to his close friend and to the only woman in his life (unfortunately we do not know her name).

W. Shakespeare wrote:

154 sonnets;
37 plays (tragedies and comedies);
2 poems

Shakespeare`s ideas of love, freedom and humanism are still very popular nowadays.

SONNET 90 by W. Shakespeare

Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now
Now while the world is bent my deeds to cross,
Join with the spite of Fortune, make me bow,
And do not drop in for an after-loss.
Ah do not, when my heart has scaped this sorrow,
Come in the rearward of a conquered woe;
Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,
To linger out a purposed overthrow.
If thou wilt leave me*, do not leave me last,
When other petty griefs have done their spite,
But in the onset come; so shall I taste
At first the very worst of Fortune's might;

And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
Compared with loss of thee, will not seem so.

Уж если ты разлюбишь - так теперь,
Теперь, когда весь мир со мной в раздоре.
Будь самой горькой из моих потерь,
Но только не последней каплей горя!
И если скорбь дано мне превозмочь,
Не наноси удара из засады.
Пусть бурная не разрешится ночь
Дождливым утром - утром без отрады.
Оставь меня, но не в последний миг,
Когда от мелких бед я ослабею.
Оставь сейчас, чтоб сразу я постиг,
Что это горе всех невзгод больнее,

Что нет невзгод, а есть одна беда –
Твоей любви лишиться навсегда!

Сонет 90 в переводе Cамуила Маршака

SONNET 18 by W. Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course
untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade*,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Сравню ли с летним днем твои черты?
Но ты милей, умеренней и краше.
Ломает буря майские цветы,
И так недолговечно лето наше!
То нам слепит глаза небесный глаз,
То светлый лик скрывает непогода.
Ласкает, нежит и терзает нас
Своей случайной прихотью природа.
А у тебя не убывает день,
Не увядает солнечное лето.
И смертная тебя не скроет тень –
Ты будешь вечно жить в строках поэта.

Среди живых ты будешь до тех пор,
Доколе дышит грудь и видит взор!

Сонет 18 в переводе Cамуила Маршака