Brief Shakespeare's biography. April 23rd 2013

1. 23RD APRIL 2013
A DATE TO REMEMBER WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE

2. William Shakespeare,
often called the English
national poet, is widely
considered the greatest
dramatist of all time.

3. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

4. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Born Baptized 26 April 1564 (birth date unknown)
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
Died 23 April 1616 (aged 52)
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
EDUCATION
Occupation
King's New School
Playwright, poet, actor
Nationality English
Period English Renaissance
Spouse(s) Anne Hathaway (m. 1582–1616)
Children Susanna Hall
Hamnet Shakespeare
Judith Quiney
Relative(s) John Shakespeare (father)
Mary Shakespeare (mother)

5. Hamlet:
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;

6. Works
Comedies
Main article: Shakespearean
comedy
All's Well That Ends Well ‡
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure ‡
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre *†
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest *
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen *†
The Winter's Tale *
Histories
Main article: Shakespearean
history
King John
Richard II
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1 †
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Richard III
Henry VIII †

7. WORKS
• Tragedies
• Main article: Shakespearean tragedy
• Romeo and Juliet
• Coriolanus
• Titus Andronicus †
• Timon of Athens †
• Julius Caesar
• Macbeth †
• Hamlet
• Troilus and Cressida ‡
• King Lear
• Othello
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Cymbeline *

8. WORKS
Poems
Shakespeare's sonnets
Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
The Passionate Pilgrim[nb 5]
The Phoenix and the Turtle
A Lover's Complaint
Lost plays
Love's Labour's Won
The History of Cardenio †
Apocrypha
Main article: Shakespeare
Apocrypha
Arden of Faversham
The Birth of Merlin
Edward III
Locrine
The London Prodigal
The Puritan
The Second Maiden's Tragedy
Sir John Oldcastle
Thomas Lord Cromwell
A Yorkshire Tragedy
Sir Thomas More

9. SOME QUOTES
Lear:
"Nothing can come of nothing:
speak again."
• King Lear (I, i, 92)
• Hero:
"Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with
traps."
• Much Ado About Nothing (III, i, 106)

10. • Lorenzo:
"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils."
The Merchant of Venice (V, i, 83-85)
• Ophelia:
O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
The
courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword,
Th' expectation and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
Th' observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down!
Hamlet, Act 3, scene 1, 150–154

11. THE THEATRE IN HIS TIME
 The public theatres were three stories high,
 They were built around an open space at the
centre, usually polygonal.
 They had three levels of inward-facing galleries
for the audience.
 They were usually built of timber, lath and
plaster and with thatched roofs,
 The early theatres were vulnerable to fire so
they were replaced with stronger structures.

12. Performances
 The acting companies functioned on a repertory system;
 The company played six days a week,
 They performed 23 different plays, some only once,
 They never played the same play two days in a row, and
rarely the same play twice in a week.
 The companies included only males and female parts
were played by adolescent boy players in women's
costume.
 Costumes were often bright in color
 and expensive.

13. EXHIBITION

14. Acknowledgements
• http://www.biography.com/people/william-shakespeare-
9480323?page=2
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Renaissance_theatre
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
• Images taken from
• Teteg.2013