William Shakespeare. Early years. Born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England. Son of prominent town official3rd child of 8 children. Received excellent education with heavy focus on grammar and literature
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William Shakespeare. Marriage and Family. Married at age 18 to Anne Hathaway (she was 26) who was pregnant with his child1st child was daughter, Susanna-born in 1583 Twins, Hamnet and Judith born in 1585 Hamnet dies at age 11
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William Shakespeare“Lost Years”The period between 1585 and 1592 is known as the “Lost Years” because there are no documentary records of Shakespeare’s activities
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William Shakespeare. Later Years. Moved to London around 1591 and became an actor. Worked with the Lord Chamberlin’s company of players, later known as the King’s Men
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William Shakespeare. Works of Literature. Along with acting, he also wrote some of the most renowned and studied literature written in the English language. Poems-famous for his sonnets. Plays-Comedies, Tragedies, and Histories
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William Shakespeare. Comedies. All’s Well that Ends Well. As You Like It. Comedy of Errors. Measure for Measure. Midsummer Night’s Dream. Taming of the Shrew. Much Ado About Nothing. Twelfth Night. Merchant of Venice
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William Shakespeare. Tragedies. Julius Caesar. Hamlet. Macbeth. Othello. Romeo and Juliet. King Lear
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William Shakespeare. Histories. King Henry VKing John. Richard IIRichard III
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William Shakespeare. Works of Literature. He wrote 37 very successful plays. His vocabulary was HUGE-somewhere between 17,000 and 34,000 words!The estimated vocabulary of an educated person today is around 15,000 words
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William Shakespeare. Works of Literature He had an amazing influence on our English language
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William Shakespeare. Have you heard these phrases?I couldn’t sleep a wink. He was dead as a doornail. She’s a tower of strength. They hoodwinked us. We’d better lie low for awhile. I am constant as the Northern Star. It’s all Greek to me.
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More words that first appeared in his plays. Accommodation lonely. Assassination gloomy. Dexterously fretful. Dislocate suspicious. Obscene hurry. Reliance. Premeditate
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William Shakespeare. Later Years. Returned to Stratford around 1610 where he lived as a country gentleman. Wealthy-Owned one of the largest homes in town. Died in Stratford in 1616 at the age of 52. His death was a mystery. It is rumored that he drank too much and contracted a fever or that he died from a cerebral hemorrhage.
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Elizabethan Age. Shakespeare lived and wrote during what is known as the English Renaissance, which lasted from about 1485 through the 1660s. Period is also known as Elizabethan Age, named after Queen Elizabeth who ruled England from 1558-1603
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Queen Elizabeth
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Elizabethan Age. Fashion
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Elizabethan Age. Fashion
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Globe Theater. Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain’s Men performed at Burbage’s theater until 1599, when they built their own playhouse, the Globe. Shakespeare referred to the Globe as “this wooden O,” a term that led scholars to believe it was a circular building
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Globe Theater
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Globe Theater. Located just outside of London
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A white flag indicates that there is a play today.
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Plays were performed during the day..
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The groundlings stood by the stage.
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The wealthy sat in the upper decks.
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Young men dressed up to play the female roles.
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Globe Theater. Attending Shakespeare’s theater was quite different from attending theater today, which is thought of as very quiet and austere. In Elizabethan England it was a noisy, popular gathering place for people of all ages and from all walks of life
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Globe Theater. Drinking and eating were permitted in the pit, which often became very noisy. If a spectator did not like a particular character or scene, he or she would feel free to hiss or boo of throw anything he or she might have on hand
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Globe Theater. It is possible that Shakespeare had this in mind when he included the phrase “with patient ears attend” in the Prologue of Romeo and Juliet. The rowdy atmosphere of the pit also accounted for the exaggerated acting that was common at the time
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Globe Theater. The original theater was destroyed by a fire in 1613 It was rebuilt in 1614, closed in 1642, and demolished in 1644 A modern reconstruction of the original Globe, named “Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre” opened in 1997
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Globe Theater. Today, audiences of this “wooden O” can sit in the gallery or stand as informally as a groundling…
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Globe Theater…just as they would have done 400 years ago!