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Title: Shakespeare: His Life and Times


1
Shakespeare His Life and Times
Adapted from http//www.public.asu.edu/muckerrm/E
nglish_321_S2005/Introduction.ppt
2
Early Life
  • Born 1564died 1616
  • Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Parents John and Mary Arden Shakespeare
  • Marydaughter of wealthy landowner
  • Johnglovemaker, local politician

3
Location of Stratford-upon-Avon
From http//www.where-can-i-find.com/tourist-maps
.html
4
Stratford-on-Avon in Shakespeares Time
As reproduced in William Rolfe, Shakespeare the
Boy (1896).
5
Stratford-upon-Avon Today
From Stratfords web site http//www.stratford-up
on-avon.co.uk/index.htm
6
Shakespeares Birthplace
From http//perso.wanadoo.fr/danielle.esposito/
7
Education
  • Probably attended Kings New School in Stratford
  • Educated in
  • Rhetoric
  • Logic
  • History
  • Latin

8
Kings New School
From http//perso.wanadoo.fr/danielle.esposito/
9
Married Life
  • Married in 1582 to Anne Hathaway, who was
    pregnant at the time with their first daughter
  • Had twins in 1585
  • Sometime between 1585-1592, he moved to London
    and began working in theatre.

10
Anne Hathaways Cottage
From http//perso.wanadoo.fr/danielle.esposito/
11
Theatre Career
  • Member and later part-owner of the Lord
    Chamberlains Men, later called the Kings Men
  • Globe Theater built in 1599 by L.C.M. with
    Shakespeare as primary investor
  • Burned down in 1613 during one of Shakespeares
    plays

12
The Rebuilt Globe Theater, London
13
The Globe Theater
14
The Plays
  • 38 plays firmly attributed to Shakespeare
  • 14 comedies
  • 10 histories
  • 10 tragedies
  • 4 romances
  • Possibly wrote three others
  • Collaborated on several others

15
The Poetry
  • 154 Sonnets
  • Numerous other poems

16
Shakespeares Language
  • Shakespeare did NOT write in Old English.
  • Old English is the language of Beowulf
  • Hwaet! We Gardena in geardagum
  • Þeodcyninga Þrym gefrunon
  • Hu ða æÞelingas ellen fremedon!
  • (Hey! We have heard of the glory of the
    Spear-Danes in the old days, the kings of tribes,
    how noble princes showed great courage!)

17
Shakespeares Language
  • Shakespeare did not write in Middle English.
  • Middle English is the language of Chaucer, the
    Gawain-poet, and Malory
  • We redeth oft and findeth y-write
  • And this clerkes wele it wite
  • Layes that ben in harping
  • Ben y-founde of ferli thing (Sir Orfeo)

18
Shakespeares Language
  • Shakespeare wrote in Early Modern English.
  • EME was not very different from Modern
    English,

19
Shakespeares Language
  • A mix of old and very new
  • Rural and urban words/images
  • Understandable by the lowest peasant and the
    highest noble

20
Elizabethan Theatrical Conventions
21
Theatrical Conventions of Shakespeare's Theatre
  • A theatrical convention is a
  • suspension of reality.
  • No electricity
  • Women forbidden
  • to act on stage
  • Minimal, contemporary
  • costumes
  • Minimal scenery

These control the dialogue.
22
Theatrical Conventions of Shakespeare's Theatre
  • Soliloquy
  • Aside

Types of speech
Audience loves to be scared.
  • Blood
  • Use of supernatural

23
Theatrical Conventions of Shakespeare's Theatre
  • Use of disguises/
  • mistaken identity
  • Last speakerhighest in
  • rank (in tragedies)
  • Multiple murders
  • (in tragedies)
  • Multiple marriages
  • (in comedies)

24
All the world 's a stage, And all the men and
women merely players.
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