born/died and baptized

born April 23, 1564, died April 23, 1616 baptized April 26 1564

married

kids

annehathway, susanna & Hamnet and Judith

wrote ___ plays

37

romeo and juliet were first preformed __

1596

Shakespeare wrote his plays primarily in _____

blank verse

Iambic pentameter

has 10 syllables — 5 pairs of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables *Meter is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem. each unit of meter is foot

setting

• Verona, Italy (primarily), and Mantua, Italy 

• July - It is unbearably hot in Verona in July; this adds to the tension.

• During the Renaissance period in Italy, the 14th century

sonnet

lyrical peom of 14 lines, iambix pentameter, abab cdcd efef gg rhyme

Rhyming couplet

consecutive lines that rhyme

soliloquy

a speech given by a character alone on stage (usually his thoughts)

shakespear started his career during __

elizabethan age in england

in early 1950s began acting and writing plays for this theater

lord chamberlains men

born/died and baptized

born April 23, 1564,

died April 23, 1616

baptized April 26 1564

born in

stratford-on-avon

elizabethan age

1558-1603

lived in

england during rennesance

born and died

april 23 1564 died April 23 1616