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Welcome to Renaissance England.
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Its
Time!
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Its time to don your doublet!
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Tighten your trussing!
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Get on your galligaskins!
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Females, fit on your farthingales!
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Smooth your stomachers!
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Remember your ruffs!
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Slip on your shoes!
And grab your gloves!
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Gentlemen?
Ladies?
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Is everybody ready?
Were going to the theater!
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The Globe!
Shakespeares theater is located just outside of
London, England.
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A white flag is flying. Theres a play today!
The groundlings have paid their penny and are
standing to watch the play.
Its afternoon, time for the play to start.
The stage is a lower class profession, and no
women will appear there.
The young men are dressing up to take the female
roles.
Poetry is a higher class of art than play writing
is.
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The wealthy are in the upper decks.
Were in for a real treat!
Its good the plague is over and the theaters are
open again.
The play is about to begin!
Its one of Shakespeares tragedies!
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William Shakespeare
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What do we know about Shakespeare?
He moved to London and became an actor,
playwright, and theater owner.
He died in 1616.
He has a monument in Westminster Abbey though
hes buried in Stratford-on-Avon.
They had three children, including a set of twins.
He wrote 37 very successful plays.
His hometown is Stratford-on-Avon.
His father was a middle class butcher, mayor,
glovemaker.
He married Anne Hathaway when he was 18 years old.
His acting company was called The Lord
Chamberlains Men.
Later it became The Kings Men.
Even Queen Elizabeth enjoyed his plays!
His vocabulary was huge 17,000 to 34,000 words!
He purchased a coat of arms to make his family
upper class.
When he retired he went back to Stratford-on-Avon
and bought the best house in town.
He was born in 1564.
She was 26!
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What do we know about Shakespeare?
He has had an amazing influence on our English
language.
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Have you heard these phrases?

• I couldnt sleep a wink.
• He was dead as a doornail.
• Shes a tower of strength.
• They hoodwinked us.
• Im green-eyed with jealousy.
• Wed better lie low for awhile.
• Keep a civil tongue in your head.

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They are just some of the many expressions coined
by that master of language, William Shakespeare.
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Now, let the show begin!
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Sources Used

• Fashion pictures from High Fashion in
  Shakespeares Time by Andrew Brownfoot, Five
  Castles Press Ltd., 1992
• Shakespeares Book of Insults, Insights,
  Infinite Jests, by John W. Seder, Templegate
  Publishers, 1984
• The Story of English by Robert McCrum, et. al.,
  Penguin Books, 1987