| Question |
Answer |
| 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 |
Buen Viaje lv.2 ch 8
