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My Experience With Shakespeare

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In 1564 we had one of the best play-writers to to ever be born, William Shakespeare. William came from a decent, financially stable family and grew up to be famous. In his time he was considered a celebrity. He would sell so many copies of books of his play, he became the most popular writer of his time. He had his own theater in London where over 1500 people could sit and enjoy his plays
My experience with William Shakespeare is very similar to a lot of peoples. At first i only heard of the guy when i was in elementary school and thought to myself im going to have to do one of his plays. The play that i was dreading was Romeo and Juliet, i didn't know when i would have to perform this play. It's not that I hated the play it's just i saw the movie and it didn't really peak my interest. I was only in fifth grade wondering all this stuff and …show more content…

It starts out with Hamlets dad dying from a supposed snake bite. Hamlet is awfulling sad, so he turns to his mother so they can mourn together but she's already crying on someone else's shoulder. That person she's crying on is Hamlet's uncle, his dads brother. When Hamlet sees this, he is in shock, thinking to himself it’s been less than 2 weeks since he has passed away, why is it so easy for her to move on. But his uncle had a very sly plan that was already in progress. His plan was to kill the king and them become the next King to rule. With that came marrying the queen who was just recently widowed. His uncle, Claudius had succeeded in his plan and thought he was golden but didn't realize how much Hamlet was going to mess all this up for him. Hamlets dead father comes back as a ghost and told him Claudius killed me so he can be king and take the queen, you must kill him and avenge me. So Hamlet doesn't know what to think but then he begins to scheme up a plan.That plan is to show in front of everyone, including Claudius and his new queen, the way Claudius killed King

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