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1 Shakespeare: His Life and Times

2 Early Life Born 1564—died 1616 Stratford-upon-Avon
Parents: John Shakespeare and Mary Arden Mary—daughter of wealthy landowner John—glovemaker, local politician

3 Location of Stratford-upon-Avon
From:

4 Stratford-on-Avon in Shakespeare’s Time
As reproduced in William Rolfe, Shakespeare the Boy (1896).

5 Stratford-upon-Avon Today
From Stratford’s web site:

6 Shakespeare’s Birthplace
From:

7 Education Probably attended King’s New School in Stratford
Educated in: Rhetoric Logic History Latin

8 King’s New School From:

9 Married Life Married in 1582 to Anne Hathaway, who was pregnant at the time with their first daughter, Susanna Had twins in 1585, Judith and Hamnet Sometime between , he moved to London and began working in theatre.

10 Anne Hathaway’s Cottage
From:

11 Theatre Career Member and later part-owner of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later called the King’s Men Globe Theater built in 1599 by L.C.M. with Shakespeare as primary investor Burned down in 1613 during performance of Henry VIII – fired cannon from roof

12 The Rebuilt Globe Theater, London

13 The Globe Theater

14 The Plays Comedies Histories Tragedies
37 plays firmly attributed to Shakespeare Comedies Histories Tragedies

15 Romeo & Juliet Written about 1595 Considered a tragedy

16 The Poetry 154 Sonnets Numerous other poems

17 Shakespeare’s Language
Shakespeare did NOT write in “Old English.” Old English is the language of Beowulf: Hwaet! We Gardena in geardagum Þeodcyninga Þrym gefrunon Hu ða æÞelingas ellen fremedon! (Hey! We have heard of the glory of the Spear-Danes in the old days, the kings of tribes, how noble princes showed great courage!)

18 Shakespeare’s Language
Shakespeare did not write in “Middle English.” Middle English is the language of Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, and Malory: We redeth oft and findeth y-write— And this clerkes wele it wite— Layes that ben in harping Ben y-founde of ferli thing… (Sir Orfeo)

19 Shakespeare’s Language
Shakespeare wrote in “Early Modern English.” EME was not very different from “Modern English,”

20 Shakespeare’s Language
A mix of old and very new Rural and urban words/images Understandable by the lowest peasant and the highest noble

21 Elizabethan Theatrical Conventions

22 A theatrical convention is a
Theatrical Conventions of Shakespeare's Theatre A theatrical convention is a suspension of reality. No electricity Women forbidden to act on stage Minimal, contemporary costumes Minimal scenery These control the dialogue.

23 Theatrical Conventions of Shakespeare's Theatre
Soliloquy Aside Types of speech Audience loves to be scared. Blood Use of supernatural

24 Let`s play Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus

25 Theatrical Conventions of Shakespeare's Theatre
Use of disguises/ mistaken identity Last speaker—highest in rank (in tragedies) Multiple murders (in tragedies) Multiple marriages (in comedies)


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