A Man of Words

 Who is William Shakespeare?  Shakespeare’s Life Work  Shakespeare’s Most Reproduced Works  Later Years and Death

Who is William Shakespeare? Born in April of 1954 Shakespeare was.. *The third child born of eight *A husband *A father of three *An actor *A playwright *Part owner of a playing company, (Lord Chamberlain’s Men

 After the birth of his twins there are few historical traces of Shakespeare until he’s mentioned as part of a London Theatre scene in 1952.

 Romeo and Juliet Coriolanus  Titus Andronicus  Timon of Athens  Julius Caesar  Macbeth  Hamlet  Roils and Cressida  King Lear  Othello  Antony and Cleopatra  Cymbeline  Venus and Adonis  The Rape of Lucrece  The Passionate Pilgrim  The Phoenix and the Turtle  A Lover’s Complaining  Love’s Labour’s Won  The History of Cardenio  Arden of Faversham  The Birth of Merlin  Edward III  Locrine  The London Prodigal  The Puritan  The Second Maiden’s Tragedy  Sir John Oldcastle  Thomas Lord Cromwell  A Yorkshire Tragedy  All’s Well That Ends Well  As You Like It  The Comedy of Errors  Love’s Labour’s Lost  Measure for Measure  The Merchant of Venice  The Merry Wives of Windsor  A Midsummer Night’s Dream  Much Ado About Nothing  Pericles, Prince of Tyre  The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest  Twelfth Night  The Two Gentlemen of Verona  The Two Noble Kinsmen  The Winter’s Tale  King John Richard II  Henry IV, Parts 1&2  Henry V  Henry VI, Parts 1-3  Richard III

Most Reproduced Works

HAMLET KING LEAR OTHELLO HENRY V MACBETH ROMEO AND JULIET  Romeo & Juliet (1968)  West Side Story (1961) His Work on Paper and Stage

 Believed to have retired some years before his death in Stratford  Last work dated in 1613  Died April 23 rd, 1616  John Fletcher John Fletcher  Shakespeare’s processor as writer at The Lord Chamberlain’s Men and thought to be co-writer of his last three works.

TEXT & MUSIC REFERENCES PICTURE &MOVIE TRAILER REFERENCES  www. william- shakespeare.info/ www. william- shakespeare.info/  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ William_Shakespeare en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ William_Shakespeare  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ John_Fletcher en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ John_Fletcher  Fine Music Vol. 1 by William Slotzman  brunswick.k12.me.us brunswick.k12.me.us  bookstakeyouplaces.wordpres s.com bookstakeyouplaces.wordpres s.com  chestofbooks.com chestofbooks.com  littrip.wikispaces.com littrip.wikispaces.com  4umi.com 4umi.com  guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk  en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org  examiner.com examiner.com  atch?v=2LOfgaSvKz8 (1968) atch?v=2LOfgaSvKz8 (1968)  atch?v=Rzj8T9QxEeQ atch?v=Rzj8T9QxEeQ