Shakespeare by Alex and Evi
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SHAKESPEARE AND THE GLOBE THEATRE Project Team: Alex and Evi
Transcript of Shakespeare by Alex and Evi
SHAKESPEAREAND THE GLOBE
THEATRE Project Team: Alex and Evi
HIS LIFE
He was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon.
He died in 1616, aged 52.He wrote 37 plays, one every 18 months. He wrote his first play when he was 25.
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 29 June 1613. The fire was caused by an accident with a cannon during a production of Henry VIII. The theatre was rebuilt by June 1614 , but was officially closed by pressure of Puritan opinion in 1642 and demolished in 1644.
SOME OF HIS PLAYS
Some of his plays are: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, King Lear and The Tempest…….
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