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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

APRIL 23, 1564-APRIL 23, 1616

Shakespeare’s Monarchs

ELIZABETHAN Elizabeth Tudor b.1533
r. 1558-1603

JACOBEAN James I b.1566
r. 1603-1625

The Rise of English Nationhood

The Tudor Myth: reassure Queen Elizabeth’s subjects

The Rise of English Nationhood The English Language and England as a World Power

The Globe theater

Rhyme Scheme: written in red letters next to the poem. Each letter corresponds to the last word of that line. For example: letters “A” correspond to the words “eyes” and “cries”; letters “B” correspond to “state” and “fate” and so forth. Every sonnet will follow this rhyme scheme.

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When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes, A I all alone beweep my outcast state, B And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, A And look upon myself and curse my fate, B Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, C Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, D Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope, C With what I most enjoy contented least: D Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, E Haply I think on thee, and then my state F

(Like to the lark at break of day arising E From sullen earth) sings hymns at heavens’ gate; F

For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings G That then I scorn to change my state with kings. G

QUATRAIN 1

When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate,

QUATRAIN 2

Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least:

QUATRAIN 3

Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heavens’ gate;

COUPLET

For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

Each sonnet will follow the same pattern:

1) 14 lines in length
2) Rhyme scheme
3) Iambic pentameter: which means—10 syllables per line

The English Sonnet

Shakespeare wrote 154 (!) of them. The English Sonnet is also known as the Shakespearean Sonnet (not because he created them but because he wrote the most number of them).

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