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William Shakespeare

April 26, 1564- April 23,1616


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William Shakespeare Early Life

oWas the third son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden

oHe was baptized on April 26,1564 Stratford-upon-Avon in


Warwickshire England
oShakespeare parents had eight children: Joan (1558),
Margaret(1562-63), William, Gilbert(1566-1612), Joan(1569-
1646), Anne(1571-79), Richard(1574-1613) and Edmund(1580-
1607).
oatttended King Edward VI Grammar School in central Stratford

oShakespeare earliest plays was The Comedy of Error

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William Shakespeare At the Age
of 18

oAnne Hathaway was 26 years old when William married her at


the age of 18, They married at Temple Grafton, a village
approximately five miles from Stratford
oLived on Henley Street when they got married around 1557

oWilliam Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway children

•Susanna (May 26 , 1583), Twins, Hamnet (February 2, 1585),


Judith (February 2,1585)

•Hamnet died at the age of just 11 years old. There were constant
outbreaks of the Bubonic Plague, during Elizabethan times

• August 11, 1596 Hamnet caught and died of the deadly disease

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William Shakespeare
London and Theatrical Career
o1592 Shakespeare was a playwright in London.

oLate 1594 Shakespeare was an actor, writer and a part owner of


a playing company
oKnown as the “Lord of Chamberlain’s Men”

oBy 1596, Shakespeare had moved to the parish of St. Helens


Bishopgate
o1598 he appeared at the top list actors in Every Man in His
Humour written by Ben Jonson.
o 1598 his name began to appear on the tile page of his plays
o 1604 acted as a matchmaker for his landlord’s daughter
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Later Year of
Shakespeare
oShakespeare appears to have retired to Stratford in 1613

oThomas Quiney- a tavern keeper, was charged in the local


church court with “fornification”, the man who was marry
his younger daughter Judith
oIn 1616 his daughter Judith married Quiney who
subsequently admitted to fornication with Margaret
Wheeler, and Shakespeare took steps to bequeath a sum to
Judith in her own name.
oAt the age of 24, Susana married John Hall( a respected
physician) on June 5, 1607

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Death of William
Shakespeare
oHe died on April 23, 1616 apparently from an infection

contracted by consuming spoiled herring at the age of


52
oBuried in the chancel of Holy Trinity Church in
Stratford-upon-Avon.

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Works
Shakespearean Comedy:
o All's Well That Ends Wellá *Much Ado Bout Anything

oAs You Like It *Pericles, Prince of Tyre


o The Comedy of Errors *The Taming of the Shrew

o Love's Labour's Lost *The Tempest


oMeasure for Measureá *Twelfth Night
o The Merchant of Venice*The Two Gentlemen of Verona

o The Merry Wives of Windsor *The Two Noble Kinsmen


o A Midsummer Night's Dream *The Winter’s Tale

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Shakespearean History
oKing John

oRichard II

o Henry IV, part 1

oHenry IV, part 2

o Henry V

oHenry VI, part 1Ü

oHenry VI, part 2

o Henry VI, part 3

oRichard III

o Henry VIIIÜ
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Shakespearean Tragedy
• Romeo and Juliet * Coriolanus
•Titus Andronicus * Timon of Athens
• Julius Caesar * Macbeth
• Hamlet * Troilus and Cressidaá
•King Lear *Othello
• Antony and Cleopatra * Cymbeline

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England
oEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

oIt shares land borders with Scotland to the north and


Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the
Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east,
with the English Channel to the south separating it from
continental Europe. Most of England comprises the
central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in
the North Atlantic.
oThe country also includes over 100 smaller islands such
as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.

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•The area now called England has been settled
by people of various cultures for about 35,000
years,but it takes its name from the Angles,
one of the Germanic tribes who settled during
the 5th and 6th centuries.
• England became a unified state in AD 927,
and since the Age of Discovery, which began
during the 15th century,
•has had a significant cultural and legal impact
on the wider world.
•The English language, the Anglican Church,
and English lawóthe basis for the common law
legal systems of many other countries around
the worldódeveloped in England, and the
country's parliamentary system of government
has been widely adopted by other nations.
• The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-
century England, transforming its society into
the world's first industrialised nation.England's
Royal Society laid the foundations of modern
experimental science.
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