His Life, Time And Works

 Parents: John Shakespeare and Mary Arden  Birthday celebrated April 23, 1564  Born in Stratford upon Avon  Attended the Stratford Grammar School

 1582 Married Anne Hathaway  She was 8 years older  Three children  Susanna  Twins  Judith  Hamnet

 Monarchy  Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth   King James King James   The Plague

 All social classes attended  No women on stage  All parts played by men  Including Juliet!

 Actor  Lord Chamberlain’s Men  The King’s Men  Playwright  38 plays  Poet  154 Sonnets

 Built 1598  Made from the leased Black Friar’s Theater  Burned during a performance of Henry VII  Cannon  Rebuilt and open to the public  The Globe Website The Globe Website “All the world is a stage”

 All's Well That Ends Well  As You Like It  The Comedy of Errors  Love's Labor's Lost  Measure for Measure  The Merchant of Venice  The Merry Wives of Windsor  A Midsummer Night's Dream  Much Ado About Nothing  The Taming of the Shrew  Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will  The Two Gentlemen of Verona

 Antony and Cleopatra  Coriolanus  Hamlet, Prince of Denmark  Julius Caesar  King Lear  Macbeth  Othello, the Moor of Venice  Romeo and Juliet  Timon of Athens  Titus Andronicus  Troilus and Cressida

 Henry IV, Part I  Henry IV, Part II  Henry V  Henry VI, Part I  Henry VI, Part II  Henry VI, Part III  Henry VIII  King John  Richard II  Richard III

 Cymbeline  Pericles  The Tempest  The Two Noble Kinsmen  The Winter's Tale

 Create a Power Point Presentation for one of Shakespeare’s plays  You must research the characters, the plot, and the themes.  Tell Miss Epsom and she will add them to her website if they are awesome

 Chose two plays from each of the following lists.  You will be assigned one of these choices.  Each student must research a different play.

 All's Well That Ends Well  As You Like It  The Comedy of Errors  Love's Labor's Lost  Measure for Measure  The Merchant of Venice  The Merry Wives of Windsor  A Midsummer Night's Dream  Much Ado About Nothing  The Taming of the Shrew  Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will  The Two Gentlemen of Verona

 Antony and Cleopatra  Coriolanus  Hamlet, Prince of Denmark  Julius Caesar  King Lear  Macbeth  Othello, the Moor of Venice  Romeo and Juliet  Timon of Athens  Titus Andronicus  Troilus and Cressida

 Henry IV, Part I  Henry IV, Part II  Henry V  Henry VI, Part I  Henry VI, Part II  Henry VI, Part III  Henry VIII  King John  Richard II  Richard III

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