WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

made by: ANJA PINTAR &

TEA TIZAJ 8.a

šk. god. 2008./09.

• William Shakeaspere was born 26th April 1564

• he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England

Childhood

• William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, a successful glover and alderman originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer

His education

• Shakespeare was educated at the King's New School in Stratford

• Grammar schools varied in quality during the Elizabethan era, but the curriculum was dictated by law throughout England, and the school would have provided an intensive education in Latin grammar and the classic.

Family life

• at the age of 18, Shakespeare married the 26 year-old Anne Hathaway

• they had three children: Susanna

Hamnet

Judith

The Bard's lost years

• looking for work in London, just four days ride way from Stratford, William is believed to have left his family back home for some twenty years whilst he pursued his craft

old London

Professional work

• he wrote many comedies, historical dramas, tragedies and romans (Romeo and Juliet)

His the most famous book

Performances • it is not clear for

which companies Shakespeare wrote his early plays

• After the plagues Shakespeare's plays were performed by his own company at The Theatre

Globe theatre London

Romeo and Juliet

• Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity

• Shakespeare the most frequently performed plays

Famous books

• tragedies: Othello, Hamlet, King Lear, Coriolanus , Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet

• histories: Richard II, King John

• Comedies: As You Like It, Love's Labour's Lost, The Comedy of Errors

Death

• Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616

• He was buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church two days after his death

Family Tree

Shakespeare’s Plays:

As You Like It

All's Well That Ends Well

Two Gentlemen of Verona Cymbeline

"But love is blind and lovers cannot seeThe pretty follies that themselves commit;For if they could, Cupid himself would blushTo see me thus transformed to a boy."William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

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