shakespeares life

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William Shakespeare

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Life and Times

• What we know about Shakespeare comes from church
  documents and legal records.
• Some documents that we have are baptismal
  registration, marriage license, and records of
  real estate transactions.

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Family

• Shakespeare was the 3rd of eight children
• Shakespeare was born April 23, 1564.
• Shakespeare was born in Stratford
• Shakespeares dad was a shoemaker and sometimes
  served as a justice of the peace
• Shakespeare died April 23, 1616.

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Shakespeares Life

• Shakespeare was an actor
• By 1594, he was a charter member of the
  theatrical company called Lord Chamberlains Men,
  which later become The Kings Men.
• The Kings Men were supported by King James

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Romeo and Juliet

• Romeo and Juliet was among the early plays of
  Shakespeare
• This play was written between 1594 and 1596
• By 1612 Shakespeare had written thirty-seven (37)
  plays.

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Other Plays

• Julius Caesar
• Hamlet
• Othello
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• Midsummers Nights Dream
• Henry V

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Death

• Shakespeare died April 23, 1616 (52 years later
  on his birthday)
• He is buried under the old stone floor of Holy
  Trinity Church in Stratford.
• The following is carved on his tombstone.
• Good friend, for Jesus sake forbear
• To dig the dust enclosed here.
• Blessed be the man that spares these stones
• And cursed be he that moves my bones

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Shakespeares Theater

• James Burbage built the first permanent theater
  in England.
• Acting companies played where they could find a
  spot.
• Usually this would be in the courtyards of inns
• Shakespeare built the GLOBE Theater

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Theater continued

• In his play Henry V Shakespeare calls his theater
  the Wooden O
• Groundlings people who stood around the stage
  for the price of a penny

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Acting

• Acting was not considered a respectable
  profession by the English Puritans
• All womens parts were played by boys
• Women did not enter the theater until much later.
• Juliet would have been played by a boy.

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