william shakespeare april 23, 1564 - april 23, 1616 (52 years)
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William Shakespeare
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616
(52 years)
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• 50,000 to 60,000Number of words in Old English.
• 986,120Number of words in modern English, as of 2005.
• 20,000 to 24,000Number of words found in the complete works of Shakespeare.
• 1,700Number of words Shakespeare invented.
• 75,000Number of words an educated adult understands, buts doesn’t actively use.
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England
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire, England
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Shakespeare’s Home
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The House
• Bought in 1568• John Shakespeare was a glovemaker and wool
dealer. The house contained workshops for both trades.
• Joan Shakespeare (William’s sister) lived in the house until 1646.
• Joan’s descendants owned the house until 1806, when it was finally bought by a butcher.
• In 1847 the house was sold at an auction and passed to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to be preserved.
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Childhood1564-1580
• Finished school at age 14
• Butcher?
• Glove maker?
• Teacher?
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Marriage1582
• William Shakespeare & Anne Hathaway
• Susanna -1583-1649
• Twins – Hamnet 1585-1596 & Judith -1585-1662
• Hamnet died at age 11
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London1585-1611
40 Existing Plays
Tragedy Comedy History
Romeo & Juliet Twelfth Night Ricard III
Othelllo Tempest King John
Hamlet As You Like it Henry VIII
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Uncertainty?
While some of Shakespeare’s works can be dated accurately, many others are uncertain.
One or two plays attributed to Shakespeare have not survived, including Loves Labour’s Won and Cardenio.
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Late 1580s – Two Gentleman of Verona
Early 1590s – The Taming of the Shrew
Henry VI, part 2
Henry VI, part 3
Titus Andronicus
Henry VI, part 1
Richard III
Venus and Adonis
Mid 1590s – The Rape of Lucrece
The Comedy of Errors
Love’s Labour’s Lost
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Richard II
King John
Late 1590s - The Mercahnt of Venice
Henry IV, part 1
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Henry IV, part2
Much Ado About Nothing
Henry V
Julius Caesar
As You Like It
Early 1600s – Hamlet
Twelfth Night
Troilus and Cressida
Measure for Measure
Othello
All’s Well that End’s Well
Timon of Athens
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Pericles
Coriolanus
After 1610 – The Winter’s Tale
Cymbeline
The Tempest
Henry VII (or All is True)
Two Noble Kinsmen
The Existing Plays (40)
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Entertainment for the Queen
The reign of Elizabeth (1558 - 1603)
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The Plague
Caused the deaths of 30% of the population of England and Wales.
London theatres were closed.
Shakespeare wrote a lot of poetry while theatres were closed
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The Old Globe 1599-1642
• Held 2,000 – 3,000 spectators
• All actors were men
• Chamberlain’s men
• Burnt down in 1613.Rebuilt 1614.Torn down 1642.
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The New Globe
• Construction began in 1987
• Finished 1996
• Ist play – Two Gentlemen of Verona
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How many plays did Shakespeare write?
42
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Can you name some of Shakespeare’s plays?
Romeo & JulietOthello
Julius CaesarHamlet
King LearMacbeth
The Merchant of Venice
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Roman Numerals
I = 1 C = 100
V = 5 D = 500
X = 10 M = 1000
L = 50------------------------------------------------------------------------------
II = 2 VI = 6 XII = 12 XL = 40III = 3 VII = 7 IXX = 19 LV = 55IV = 4 IX = 9 XXX = 30 CC= 200