William Shakespeare

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Contents 1 Birth/Death 2 Works 2.1 Famous Plays 3 Where 4 Where he Lived 5 Death 5.1 Why 5.2 Where 5.3 Will 6 Background 6.1 Childhood Family 6.1.1 Parents 6.2 Childhood 6.3 Jobs 6.4 Life 6.5 Lifestyle 7 Elizibethan Theater 7.1 Who 7.2 When 7.3 Seating 7.4 How people knew what was playing 7.5 Plays 8 Current Events 8.1 $$$$$ 9 Family 9.1 Wife 9.2 Children 10 Writting 10.1 Style

[edit] Birth/Death

August 23, 1564 - August 23, 1616

• Died on B-Day
• May not have been born on Aug. 23, but is widly accepted as such

[edit] Works

William did many works through his entire life

[edit] Famous Plays

• Tragedies

Antony and Cleopatra

Hamlet

Julius Caesar

Macbeth

Romeo and Juliet

• Histories

King Henry IV Part 1

King Henry IV Part 2

King Henry V

King Henry VI

King John

Richard I

• Comedies

All's Well That Ends Well

As You Like It

Winter's Tale

Twelfth Night

Tempest

Much Ado About Nothing

Midsummer Night's Dream

Love's Labor's Lost

Comedy of Errors

• Poetry

A Lover's Complaint

Sonnets 1-30

Sonnets 31-60

Sonnets 61-90

Sonnets 91-120

Sonnets 121-154

The Passionate Pilgrim

The Phoenix and the Turtle

The Rape of Lucrece

Venus and Adonis

[edit] Where

Mostly in London

[edit] Where he Lived

• London (where he wrote and preformed plays)
• Stanford (in his later years)

[edit] Death

[edit] Why

Unknown but it was guessed he died of a fever

[edit] Where

He was buried at Holy Trinity Church

[edit] Will

• He gave his daughter Judith 150 pounds if she got a divorce
• He gave his daughter Judity 150 pounds if she lives another 3 years after his death, if not 50 pounds go to his sister Joan, and 100 to his neice, Elizabeth Hall
• Gave Elizabeth Hall all of his plates except except his broad silver and gilt bowl (which he gave to Judith)
• He gave money to several people to buy themselves rings

[edit] Background

[edit] Childhood Family

[edit] Parents

• John and Mary

[edit] Childhood

• Had 4 bros and 4 sisters (he was the oldest of the brothers)
• Lots of plauge during his time (lucky to survive childhood)
• Went to Christian Trinity Church (where he was buried)
• Might have gone to Stanford (at age of 7 or so)
• Went to Elizabethan theatrical productions

[edit] Jobs

• Might have been a lawyer, schoolmaster, or glover (w/bro Gilbert)
• Preformed in plays, which a few were seen my Queen Elizabeth herself

[edit] Life

• He was 18 at the time of marrage (she was 36 and pregnant)
• The "Lost Years" of his life were from the birth of his twins till 7 years after
• In London, he started writing plays (he moved there around 1588)
• Emerged as a respected and estabished actor (which was strange for the time) after the "Lost Years"
• Also, during this time, many of his plays became popular ("King Henry IV", "The Comedy of Errors", and "Titus Andronicus" for example)
• His troupe was very popular and preformed regularly for Queen Elizabeth herself
• The Earl of Southampton became his patron and William's works were publicated (Turning point in career)
• It is believed that he and the Earl had a close friendship, but not proven
• returned to the theatre in 1594, became a leading member of the "Lord Chamberlain's Men"
• Preformed for Elizabeth and got 10 pounds
• Wrote "Romeo and Juliet", "Richard II", "King John", and "Love's Labour's Lost" at this time
• Moved to St. Helen's Bishopgate in 1596
• William's last plays were written in 1613 and supposedly retired to Stanford
• William was buried in the church he attended as a child, Holy Trinity Church

[edit] Lifestyle

It is largly guessed that Shakespeare was bi-sexual, mostly because over a hundred sonnets were addressed to a man.

[edit] Elizibethan Theater

[edit] Who

• Only men were allowed to preform in the theater. Women's roles were played by young boys in women's clothing
• Many of William's plays were preformed here, sometimes infront of Queen Elizabeth I

[edit] When

• The theater started before William's birth until 1642

[edit] Seating

• The seats surronded the stage on 3 sides
• Up to 3000 people came to plays

[edit] How people knew what was playing

Unknonwn (Couldn't find)

[edit] Plays

• Henry VII (It should be noted that in a preformace of this play, a cannon was fired, and destroyed the globe in the theater)
• Hamlet
• Much Ado about Nothing
• Twelfth Night
• Romeo and Juliet

[edit] Current Events

• Many people protest the theater
• In 1596, public plays were banned
• All theater were forced to move the South side of the River Thames

[edit] $$$$$

• Was very expensive

[edit] Family

[edit] Wife

• Anne Hathaway (Nov. 28, 1952)

Note: Some believe that there might have been two Annes, and William married Hathaway though most believe that there was only 1

[edit] Children

1st daughter: Susanna (May 26, 1583)

Twins: Hamnet and Judith (February 2, 1985)

• Hamnet died at age 11 (William was deeply depressed by the lose of his only son, which appeared in some later works, such as King John and Hamlet)

[edit] Writting

[edit] Style

• Poetic artistry, though characterisation, plot, action, language, and genre, helped raise the social status of theater so that the upper-class could enjoy them
• His plays usual debated what it ment to be human (unlike earlier theather)
• Wrote in Old English