1. Shakespeare and His Times

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His Birth
born in We know this from the earliest record: his baptism which happened on Wednesday, April the 26th, 1564
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born and grew up in Stratford upon Avon

3. Location of Stratford-upon-Avon
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4. His Parents and Siblings
third child of John and Mary Shakespeare
seven siblings
John, a glove maker, was also a prominent man in Stratford
William's mother was Mary Arden, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, who married John Shakespeare in 1557

5. Shakespeare’s Birthplace
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6. His Family
November 28, 1582
eighteen year old William married the twenty-six and pregnant Anne Hathaway
barely seven months later, they had his first daughter Susanna
twins Hamnet and Judith were born in February 1592
Anne never left Stratford, living there her entire life
Hamnet dies at age 11

7. 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 one of Shakespeare’s plays

8. At the end of his life, Shakespeare returned to Stratford-upon-Avon to retire. He died in 1616.

9. Theatre in the Elizabethan Era
Shakespeare was alive during the late Renaissance, which in England is referred to as the Elizabethan Era. This Era is named after Queen Elizabeth I, who was Britain's first female monarch. She was the daughter of Henry VIII, who had her mother's head chopped off for not producing a male child.

10. Theatre in the Elizabethan Era
Shakespeare and his fellow theatre colleagues were fortunate that the Queen enjoyed theatre because the theatres were constantly closed because of the Bubonic Plague and the queen was good about having the theatres reopened. Otherwise, some would have liked to see these theatres, such as the Globe, which held about 2,500 to 3,000 spectators, closed for good.

11. The Globe Theater

12. was three-stories high and had no roof.
The Globe Theater
constructed in 1599.
was three-stories high and had no roof.
could together hold more than 1,500 people.
First play there was Shakespeare’s Julius Ceasar

13. In 1613 the theatre burned down during a performance of Henry VIII.
The Globe Theatre
In 1613 the theatre burned down during a performance of Henry VIII.
A canon was accidentally shot into the thatched roof and the whole theatre was set ablaze.
The theatre was rebuilt in 1614 without Shakespeare, for he had retired. About 30 years later, Puritans assume power in England and have the theatre torn down.

14. 2 Pennies: first balcony 3 Pennies: second balcony
The Globe Theater
1 Penny: roughly 10 % of a worker’s daily wage (main floor, groundlings)
2 Pennies: first balcony
3 Pennies: second balcony
Because there was no artificial lighting, plays typically occurred in the early afternoon, lasting from 2 pm until roughly 4 or 5 pm.

15. The Globe Theatre
People called “Groundlings” sat in the cheap seats. Like all other theaters in Elizabethan England, it had only Men perform on stage because women were not allowed to act. Most Female roles were played by adolescent boys.

16. 37 plays; wrote comedies, histories, and tragedies
His Works
estimated that roughly fifteen of his 37 plays would have been written and performed by 1597.
37 plays; wrote comedies, histories, and tragedies
154 sonnets

17. During the years of the plague, he would write poetry since the theaters were often closed. It was considered by the Elizabethans to be more important to write poetry than to write plays.

18. After the plague he wrote about 2 plays a year
After the plague he wrote about 2 plays a year. Shakespeare wrote a total of 37 plays. This made William a wealthy man.

19. Wrote 154 14 lines Iambic pentameter Set rhyme scheme
Shakespeare’s Sonnet
Wrote 154
1-120: to W.H.
: to Dark Lady
14 lines
Iambic pentameter
Set rhyme scheme
Abab, cdcd, efef, gg

20. Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course un- trimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

21. Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet, however, is not an original story.
Shakespeare retells a story that can be dated back to as early as fourth century Greece.
Shakespeare uses a narrative poem called "Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet," which is written by Arthur Brook, to get most of his information for his play.
Shakespeare sets his Romeo and Juliet in Verona, Italy.