1. William Shakespeare Where wit met wisdom, Romance let lovers fall in love, And revenge was sliced deep into an enemies heart.

2. 1564 Born in Stratford-upon-Avon to tanner and glove maker, John Shakespeare and his wife, Mary (Arden). His actual birthday is unknown but assumed to be April the 23 rd. His baptism was recorded in the Parish register of Holy Trinity Church on April the 26th.Stratford-upon-Avon 1571. If Shakespeare went to school this is when he would have started because children in Stratford began their schooling at the age of seven. He would have gone to the local grammar school. 1582 Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway November the 27th at Temple Grafton, a village near Stratford. 1583 Susanna, his first child is born. 1585 Judith and Hamnet, twins, are born, February 2nd. Shakespeare goes to London and starts his theatrical career. 1589-1592 Shakespeare establishes his career and begins to make a name for himself. Writes: The Comedy of Errors, Henry VI, 1,2,3, Richard III, The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus 1593 Dedicates Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece to Henry Wriothsley, Earl of Southampton - thought to be the beautiful youth of the sonnets.sonnets. Writes: Venus and Adonis, Begins writing: The sonnets, Love's Labour's Lost, Two Gentlemen of VeronaThe sonnets 1594 Founding member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, an acting company. Published: The Rape of Lucrece Shakespeare’s Life Timeline

3. 1596-1597 Hamnet dies. Shakespeare purchases New Place, a large house in Stratford. Writes: Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard II, Romeo and Juliet 1598-1599 The Globe Theater built on Bankside 1599 - Shakespeare is a shareholder. Writes: As You Like It, Henry IV,1,2, Henry V, Julius Caesar, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing 1600-1608 1601 Shakespeare's father dies. 1603 The Lord Chamberlain's Men become The King's Men and perform regularly at court. 1607 Susanna Shakespeare marries Dr. John Hall. 1608 The King's Men begin playing at the Blackfriars. 1608 Shakespeare's mother dies. Writes: All's Well That Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, Othello, Timon of Athens, Troilus & Cressida, Twelfth Night 1609-1611 1609 the Sonnets published.Sonnets Writes: Cymbeline, Pericles Prince of Tyre, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale 1612-1616 Shakespeare retires from the theatre and returns to live in Stratford. Works on new plays with his friend, John Fletcher.John Fletcher. 1616 Judith Shakespeare married Thomas Quiney. Shakespeare dies 23 rd April 1616 (on his birthday) and is buried in Holy Trinity Church. Writes: Cardenio, Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen Shakespeare’s Life Timeline

4. Fun Facts About The Bard : William Shakespeare Fact 1 Shakespeare was buried in the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford- upon-Avon. He put a curse on anyone daring to move his body from that final resting place. His epitaph was: Good friend for Jesus' sake forbear, To dig the dust enclosed here: Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. Though it was customary to dig up the bones from previous graves to make room for others, Shakespeare's remains are still undisturbed. Stratford- upon-Avon William Shakespeare Fact 2 During his life, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets! 37 plays 154 sonnets William Shakespeare Fact 3 Almost four hundred years after Shakespeare's death there are 15 million pages referring to him on Google. There are 132 million for God, 2.7 million for Elvis Presley, and coming up on Shakespeare's heels, George W Bush with 14.7 million.

5. Shakespeare: Creator of words and Phrases In all of his work - the plays, the sonnets and the narrative poems - Shakespeare uses 17,677 words: Of those, 1,700 were first used by Shakespeare. This list of words that we use in our daily speech were all brought into usage by Shakespeare: accommodation, aerial, amazement, apostrophe, assassination, auspicious, baseless, bloody, bump, castigate, changeful, clangor, control (noun), countless, courtship, critic, critical, dexterously, dishearten, dislocate, dwindle, eventful, exposure, fitful, frugal, generous, gloomy, gnarled, hurry, impartial, inauspicious, indistinguishable, invulnerable, lapse, laughable, lonely, majestic, misplaced, monumental, multitudinous, obscene, palmy, perusal, pious, premeditated, radiance, reliance, road, sanctimonious, seamy, sportive, submerge, suspicious As if the above words were not enough, Shakespeare also put common words together to make up new phrases: all that glitters isn't gold / break the ice/ brevity is the soul of wit/ catch a cold/ clothes make the man /dog will have his day / eat out of house and home/ fancy-free /flaming youth/ foregone conclusion /frailty, thy name is woman/ give the devil his due / green eyed monster/ heart of gold/ heartsick / hot-blooded /it's Greek to me/ live long day/ mind's eye/ naked truth/ neither a borrower nor a lender be/ one fell swoop/strange bedfellows /the course of true love never did run smooth/ the lady doth protest too/ to thine own self be true/ too much of a good thing/ wear one's heart on one's sleeve

6. Theatrical Vocabulary Dialogue-a conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals; in a dramatic or literary presentationconversationdiscourse Soliloquy-the act of a character speaking to himself so as to reveal his thoughts to the audience; a speech or written discourse in this formcharacterspeakinghimselfrevealthoughtaudience speechdiscourse Aside-an incidental remark made quietly so as to be heard by the person to whom it is said and not by any others in the vicinityremark Character Foil-A foil is a character that contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) and so highlights various facets of the main character's personality. A foil usually has some important characteristics in common with the other character Scene Design-What the audience sees on the stage, the position of props and lighting angles. Placement of objects/lights and actors give the audience a willing suspension of disbelief. Willing Suspension of Disbelief-was a formula devised by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge to justify the use of fantastic or non-realistic elements in literature. Coleridge suggested that if a writer could infuse a "human interest and a semblance of truth" into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend his or her judgment concerning the implausibility of the narrative.Samuel Taylor Coleridge