William Shakespeare The bard of Avon

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William Shakespeare- The bard of Avon
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Shakespeares Life

• All that is know for Shakespeare comes from
  registrar records, court records, wills, marriage
  certificates and his tombstone.
• He is born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptized on
  26 April 1564, but his unknown birthday is
  traditionally observed on 23 April, St George's
  Day.

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• John Shakespeare, a successful glover and
  alderman, and Mary Arden had eight children and
  Shakespeare was the third one and the oldest son
  who survived.
• In 1582. William married 26 years old Anne
  Hathaway with who he had three children Susanna
  and the twins Hamnet and Judith.
• Around the age of eleven Shakespeare probably
  entered the grammar school of Stratford, King's
  New School, where he would have studied theatre
  and acting, as well as Latin literature and
  history. Probably, he had never attended an
  university.
• REMEMBER Nothing definite is known about his
  boyhood, or even about his entire life.

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• The Globe Theatre
• The original Globe Theatre was built in 1599 by
  the playing company, Lord Chamberlain's Men, to
  which Shakespeare belonged, and was destroyed by
  fire on June 29, 1613,during a production of
  Henry VIII The Globe Theatre was rebuilt by June
  1614.It was officially closed by order of the
  dominant Puritan religious faction in 1642 and
  demolished in 1644.

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• At Shakespeares time at least two companies
  were performing in or around London six times a
  week. These companies consisted of about 25
  males half of whom were shareholders and 4-6 of
  whom were boys playing female roles. All of them
  were playing large number of roles.
• The plays were profitable because of constant
  demand for new material each play was performed
  as soon as it was written.

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• Costumes and lighting are similar to those of
  the medieval theatre.
• Most actors wore costumes appropriate to their
  rank, age and profession.
• Costumes were the greatest expanses, while
  lighting was not so problematic because plays
  were performed during daytime. Darkness was
  simply indicated by candles, torches or lanterns.
• Songs and dances were important part of every
  play and trumpets were widely used.

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Costumes
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WORKS
Tragedies Romeo and Juliet Coriolanus Titus
Andronicus Timon of Athens Julius
Caesar Macbeth Hamlet Troilus and Cressida King
Lear Othello Antony and Cleopatra Cymbeline
Comedies All's Well That Ends Well As You Like
It The Comedy of Errors Love's Labour's
Lost Measure for Measure The Merchant of
Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer
Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles,
Prince of Tyre The Taming of the Shrew The
Tempest Twelfth Night, or What You Will The Two
Gentlemen of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen The
Winter's Tale
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Histories King John Richard II Henry IV, part
1 Henry IV, part 2 Henry V Henry VI, part 1 Henry
VI, part 2 Henry VI, part 3 Richard III Henry VIII
Poems Shakespeare's Sonnets Venus and Adonis The
Rape of Lucrece The Passionate Pilgrim The
Phoenix and the Turtle A Lover's Complaint
Apocrypha Arden of Faversham The Birth of
Merlin Locrine The London Prodigal The
Puritan The Second Maiden's Tragedy Sir John
Oldcastle Thomas Lord Cromwell A Yorkshire
Tragedy Edward III Sir Thomas More