Wednesday, March 28, 2007

William Shakespeare!




William Shakespeare was born in april 1564 and died in 1616.He was the third of the eight brothers who he have. He was an English poet and playwright widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language. He wrote approximately 38 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems.


Shakespeare's works have been translated into every major living language, and his plays are continually performed all around the world. His parents are called: John Shakespere and Mary Arden. His father died few days after that he was born, so he, didn´t know very much his father.
On 28 november, 1582, was married with Anne Hathaway, of 26 years old. On 26 may, 1583, was born the first son of Anne and william, called Susanna. A son, Hamnet, and another daughter, Judith, been born twin 1585. Hammet was born with eleven years old, and only was adult Susanna and Judith.






Comedies:
La comedia de las equivocaciones (The Comedy of Errors, 1592-1593)
La fierecilla domada (Taming of the Shrew, 1593)
Trabajos de amor perdidos (Love's Labour's Lost, 1594)
Los dos hidalgos de Verona (The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1594)
El sueño de una noche de verano (Midsummer Night's Dream, 1595-1596)
El mercader de Venecia (The Merchant of Venice, 1596-1597)
Mucho ruido y pocas nueces (Much Ado About Nothing, 1598-1599)
Las alegres casadas de Windsor (Merry Wives of Windsor, 1599)
Como gustéis (As you like it, 1599-1600)
Noche de Reyes (Twelfth Night, 1600)
A buen fin no hay mal principio (All's Well That Ends Well, 1602)
Troilo y Cressida (Troilus and Cressida, 1602)
Medida por medida (Measure for measure, 1604-1605)
Pericles, príncipe de Tiro (Pericles: Prince of Tyre, 1608)
Cimbelino (Cymbeline, 1610)
Cuento de invierno (The Winter's Tale, 1610)
La tempestad (Tempest, 1613)












DVD:
El mercader de Venecia, dir. Michael Radford (2004)
Trabajos de amor perdidos, dir. Kenneth Branagh (2000)
El sueño de una noche de verano, dir. Michael Hoffman (1999)
Romeo y Julieta, dir. Baz Luhrmann (1996)
Enrique V, dir. Kenneth Branagh (1989)
Mucho ruido y pocas nueces, dir. Stuart Burge (1984)
Marco Antonio y Cleopatra, dir. Charlton Heston (1972)
La mujer indomable, dir. Franco Zeffirelli (1967)
Campanadas a medianoche, dir. Orson Welles (1965)
Othello, dir. Stuart Burge (1965)
Julio César, dir. Tanio Boccia (1963)
Hamlet, dir. Laurence Olivier (1948)
Macbeth, dir. Orson Welles (1948)




the pictures are from: google / Shakespeare.




Saturday, March 03, 2007

Fallas






the fallas (faults) is a tradiccional "party" in Valencia. Only celebrates it Valencia.



In faults there are falleras, fireworks, mascletás, firecrackers, cavalcades and overcoat a lot of people doing the hooligan.

Normally the young people throw firecrackers and the old people walk to see the faults.



The faults put on the street on March 15.
And burn on March 19.




on march 4 -> Cavalcade of the Ninot Infantil.
on march 8 -> round of old cars
on march 14->Closing of the Exposición of the " Ninot Infantil"
on march 15-> Plantá of all the faults
on march 19-> bye faults =D!