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Background
Knowledge-
Shakespear
Sara Castello
Shakespeare’s
Life
Sypnosis Shakespeare was an actor and
a writer in London that
produced some of the more
memorable pieces of literature
in history. He caused there to
be new words and a different
type of entertainment to the
public with all of his different
genres of plays.
Theater Life
 Shakespeare’s birthday is not
Birth and officially known, but scholars
Childhood predicted it was on April 23, 1564,
in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Shakespeare was the youngest of
three from John Shakespeare. Even
though the actual records for his
childhood, scholars have inferred
that he attended the King’s New
School, where he would of qualified
fro fee tuition.
 Shakespeare married Anne
Marriage and Hathaway on November 28,
Children 1582 in Worcester. Hathaway
wa s from Shottery and when
they married, Anne was 26 and
Shakespeare was 18. Their first
child was a girl named
Susanna, born on May 26, 1583.
On Febuary 2, 1585, the couple
had a set of twins named
Hamnet and Judith, but
Hamnet would soon die.
Theoretical Beginning
Playhouses and When Shakespeare wa 12, James Burbage bult one of
many playhouses and this was one of the first since the
the Globe Romans in England. This and many to follow was a
multi-sided stucture with a uncovered center. The ticket
price depened on the seats, a seat was more expansive
than standing to watch the play. Lord Chamberlain’s Men
preformed at the theater, but when the Burbages lost
their lease, they bought it.They began to construct a new
theater called the Globe.
 Shakespeare began to write
Theoretical
and act in the early 1590’s. He
beginnings first began to author 15 of the
37 plays attributed to him. He
then built the largest public
theater in London, the Globe.
 The first established record of
London Theater Shakespeare in entertainment
is in 1592 as an actor and
playwright. He had many
different jobs in London, as a
actor, playwrite, and a business
in the acting company, the
Lord’s Chamberlain’s Men
(King’s Men) Shakespeare
became more famous in the
London theater world, soon
appearing on title pages for
theaters.
Establishing Shakespeare would soon
himself become known to many people
by constructing the globe
theater, which allowed for
anyone to come and see the
plays he has written for one
cent. He would then go on to
write histories and comedies
for the people, which caused
for his establishment in
theater.
 Shakespeare's early plays were
Writing style written in the conventional
style with metaphors and
rhetorical phrases that did not
relate to the plot of the play at
the time. He kept a traditional
style and created freer flow
words. He mostly used metrical
pattern having lines of
unrhymed iambic pentameter
to make his plays. He would
also use his form of poetry for
his plays.
Early Works Shakespeare’s early plays would be mostly
comedies or histories. Some examples of
comedies would be: All's Well That Ends Well,As
You Like It,The Comedy of Errors,Love's Labor's
Lost,Measure for Measure,The Merchant of
Venice,The Merry Wives of Windsor,A Midsummer
Night's Dream,Much Ado About Nothing,The
Taming of the Shrew,Twelfth Night, The Two
Gentlemen of Verona, The Two Noble Kinsmen
Histories would be: Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part
2, Henry V, Henry Vi Part 1 Henry VI Part 2, Henry VI
Part 3, Henry VII, KIng John, Richard II, Richard III.
Later Works His later works Consisted of Tragedies
and tragicomedies. The tragedies
were: Anthony and Cleopatra,
Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar,King,
Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and
Juliet ,Timon of Athens,Titus
Andronicus, and Troilus and Cressida.
Examples of Tragicomedies: Cybeline
and the Winter’s Tale
Death The cause of his death is
unknown, but it is though for
Shakespeare to have died on
his birthday in 1616 most likely.
One of the lasts plays he
worked on was The Two Noble
Kinsmen. It is thought that he
died on his 52nd birthday.
Legacy and The legacy that A controversy that
Shakespeare has left Shakespeare caused
Controversy was that his was if he wrote his
influence has grown own plays. This was
to influence people because scholars
around the world, his brought names up of
writing is the second people who might of
most quoted, and he written the plays and
is credited with that Shakespeare’s
introducing 3,000 mysterious life
words to the English caused people to
lanuage. second guess the
writer.
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