WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

• HIS LIFE AND TIMES

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EARLY YEARS

• Born April 23, 1564
• Baptized Church of the Holy Trinity
• Birthplace Stratford-upon-Avon
• Parents John Shakespeare and Mary Arden
• Siblings third child, but first son seven
  children in all

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Church where john Shakespeare and Mary Arden
married exterior
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interior
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MARY ARDENS FAMILY HOME
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARES GRANDFATHERS HOME as it
is today
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STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
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Street plan of Stratford-upon-Avon in
Shakespeare's time

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Shakespeares birthplace
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CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
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SCHOOL DAYS

• Attended Stratford Grammar School
• Main Subject Latin

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STRATFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL
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SHAKESPEARES CLASSROOM
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SHAKESPEARES TEACHERS DESK
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MARRIED LIFE

• Marriage December 1582
• Wife Anne Hathaway
• Children three
• 1. Susanna
• 2. Twins Hamnet and Judith
• Home New Place
• Untimely Death Hamnet died- age 11

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Some believe Shakespeare and hathaway were
married here
                                                                                                                                                                            
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ANNE Hathaways cottage
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Cottage and gardens
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NEW PLACE
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What Shakespeares home might have looked like
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William Shakespeares death

• Died April 23, 1616
• Buried in Church of the Holy Trinity
• Grave has a curse

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Inside church of the holy trinity
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William Shakespeares Death Mask

• http//biblioklept.org/2011/06/19/william-shakespe
  ares-death-mask/
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v83FU_VyC2fk

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Shakespeares acting/writing careers

• Lord Chamberlains Men/The Queens Men
• The Kings Men
• Writing Patron the Earl of Southampton

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First folio

• Ben Jonson
• First collection of Shakespeares works
• 1623
• Contained Shakespeares 36 plays
• Divided the plays into three parts
• 1. comedies to entertain
• 2. histories recorded the fall of a great
  person who
• offended against divine
  and moral law
• 3. tragedies denoted a play ending with
  the violent
• deaths of most of the
  main characters

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First folio
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First folio
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macbeth
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Macbeth

• Source Raphael Holinsheds Chronicles of
  England, Scotland, and Ireland
• Written in 1605-1606- first performed for James I
• Short play- maybe for James I who did not like
  sitting for long periods of time
• The play is
• 1. set in the 11th century
• 2. set in Scotland
• 3. has scenes written in to please King James
  I
• 4. is a tragedy
• Macbeth was a real Scottish king 1040-1057

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Macbeths scotland
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The macbeth curse?

• Black magic spells for the witches
• Those who are connected with a performance of the
  play are not to mention the title while in the
  theater or the entire company will be cursed
• Other names
• 1. that play
• 2. the unmentionable
• 3. the Scottish play
• 4. the plaid play

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Macbeth curse?

• They believe curse began on opening night, August
  7, 1606- and continues today. So-
• What if?
• The offender must go outside, turn three times,
  spit, and then say the foulest word he/she can
  think of. Then he/she must wait for permission
  to re-enter the theater.

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Do you believe?
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The globe theater

• Designed in the likeness of the inns of the day.

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Traveling actors

• http//gypsywaggons.co.uk/varsuk4.htm

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Inn courtyard
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The globe theater
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The globe theater

• http//www.farexplore.com/2007/08/15/shakespeare-g
  lobe-theatre.html

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William Shakespeares coat of arms october 1596