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Born April 23th?? - remembr 16 - end of the 16 cent.
Died 16 = 1616 also April 23rd
parents John & Mary - one of 8 children (not all lived)
common problem at time of birth & continued through his life plague
School? Unsure - Latin Grammar - a long day studying Latin
Lost years? Did not go to college apprentice to father
Married? Anne Hathaway - 6 years older pregnant
children 3 - girl then girl + boy twins
Left wife & children for CAREER 1st - held horses2nd actor3rd playwright - principal playwright for Lord Chamberlain's men - King's men
made $$ 10% of "gate"
Robert Green - what he called Shakespeare "upstart crow" - 1st evidence of his writing
Vast RANGE of writing early - comedies, histories, sonnetsearly history - Richard III
patron for poetry Earl of Southhampton
sonnets? Beautiful, highly structured love poems - 14 lines, set rhyme scheme
long poems 3 "Venus and Adonis"
Sonnets 1st - to patron Southhampton, lover?2nd - dark lady
how many plays 37 - a lot for a career at that time
where did he probably write them pup - had light & food
1590s - big problem plague killed 1000 a week in London if you contracted plague - 70% you would die
problem w/ theaters & plague thought plague spread in theaters :-( closed them - once for 2 years
people's concept of theater & theater people ungodly, immoral
closing Shakespeare's theatre - ? took it apart & rebuild across the River Thames = GLOBE
CREATE scene, action words - language - audiences were used to that
women's parts boys big part - man
parts Shakespeare wrote for himself ghost of Hamlet's father bring actor's skills to his playwright work
Created by: dhargrave
 

 



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