William Shakespeare His Life, Time And Works

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

Young Adulthood  1582 Married Anne Hathaway She was 8 years older  Three children Susanna Twins  Judith  Hamnet

The Times  Monarchy Queen Elizabeth  King James   The Plague

The Theater  All social classes attended  No women on stage All parts played by men  Including Juliet!

Career  Actor Lord Chamberlain’s Men The King’s Men  Playwright 38 plays  Poet 154 Sonnets

The Globe  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 “All the world is a stage”

The Globe

The Comedies  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

The Tragedies  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

The Histories  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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