English III Final Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s Life and Times

• called the barb

• parents: Mary and John

• born: April 23, 1564, in stratford-upon-avon

• baptized: April 26, 1564

• died: April 23, 1616

early childhood and education

• attended kings new school

• petty school: like a modern day preschool (4-5)

• tranferred to grammer school after two years

• school began from 6 am to 5 pm

• he didnta attend un iversity, where he would have learned more latin and greek

  • was looked down as because he didnt attend the university of scholars

• three major renaissance english playwrighters: shakespeare, ben jonson, and christopher marlowe

• his father was a glover, a money lender, and a dealer of agricultural products such as wool, hebs, and grains. His father became the towns mayor but lost his position due to being catholic

• the religion at the time depended on the beliefs of the ruler

shakespeares wife and children

• anovember 1582: married at the age of 18 to 26 year old anne hathaway (shotgot marriage)

• first daughter: Susanna born in May 1583

• twinsa Hamnet and Judith in February 1585

  • hamnet died at 11 due to bubonic plague

  • shakespeare was libing away in london when she died

  • he went to london to seek an acting and playwrite career while his wife and children stayed where they were

    • anne hathaway was a puritan and puritans considered london dirty

shakespeares stage success

• lord chamberlains men: an acting company/actors memorized over 100 lines a day and rehearsal was very short, and they only performed one play for 3-4 days/different from modern theater

• when th ehteaters were reopened after the bubonic plague, shakespeare joined acting company/had some success as an actor, howver, during this time he began writing his own plays, poetry, and sonnets

• plays: histories, tragedies, and comedies totalled 36

• poetry: 154 connetts (14 line stanza, rhyme scheme ababcdcdefefgg, iambic pentameter), 3 quatrains an d 1 couplet

• he was a wise investor as well, purchasing theater houses and sharing in thei rprofits/acquired wealth and prestige this way

• some theaters: new place, the theater, the curtain, the swan, the rose, and the glob e (most famous and opened in 1599. it eventually burned down and rebuilt)