Shakespear

• He was one of the most successful writers

• He is all around us

• He had a good education

• He based his plots on well-known stories from history

• He understood what made people tick and translated it into stories

• Born in, 1564

• Baptized in Stratford upon Avon on April 26

• Was married in 1582 to Anne Hathaway

• Had a daughter and was Christian in 1583

• Had twins Christian at 1585

• His name in print first, in 1592

• He died on April 23, 1616

• His work seemed contemporary

• London was where there was violence and the black death

• Rosen curtain were popular play houses

• People showed their wealth in colors, layers, and weight

• British soldiers hated plays because of pockets prostitutes in the spread of disease

• Queen Elizabeth the first was on the throne for 40 years in 1593

• Queen Elizabeth loved theater

• She was the 16th century version of a workaholic

• She enjoyed theater because she needed to be an actor of sorts

• She didn’t want to marry if she wanted to she could

• Being single served her well because she could make treaties with people promising her hand in marriage, and then take it back

• She sympathized women in her time because posing as a man was the only way they could become an actor

• Expressed feeling through language

• Shakespeare also sympathized women

• Romeo and Juliet is a comedy and tragedy which had never been done at the time

• The ending of the story was announced in the beginning of the play

• A silicate is someone on stage speaking for only the audience

• Shakespeare has 38 plays

• Shakespeare writes comedies, tragedies, history and sonnets

• He kept the audience entertained by using universal themes, action, death, romance, crude humor, song, lyrics, and dancing, and rhythm and rhyme Queen Elizabeth the first ruled from 1533 to 1603

• James the first was the leader after Queen Elizabeth

• Theater did not have a good reputation, which is why they didn’t want women on stage

• Shakespeare left his family to go to London in his early 20s which was the nine 1590s

• He performed at the globe theater

• He was one of the few play riders that had success because he gave the audience what they wanted

• Romeo and Juliet is a bibliography

• A sonnet contains 14 lines and is written in iambic pentameter

• They have a distinct rhyme scheme

• Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets mostly when the theaters were shut down due to the plague which occurred in 1593 to 1595

• Shakespeare added sonnets into his place

• There are three quatrains(four lines,), and one couplet(2 lines) in the 14 lines of a sonnet

• Every line of his sonnets are iambic parameter, which means every two syllables. There’s a stress, and then unstressed syllable.

• Each line has 10 syllables and 5 feet per line = 10 syllables

• Shakespeare was known as a legendary figure in the worlds most honored writer

• Shakespeare’s father was the mayor and a magistrate

• Acting was not considered a respectful profession

• Shakespeare got married to a girl six years older than him when he was 18

• The first English playhouse built by James Burbage was called the theater in 1576 and it’s glorious successor was the globe

• Flags are uses a form as Elizabeth and advertising

• White meant comedy, black meant, tragedy, and red meant history

• Theaters only survived in the 16th century because of the Queen’s interest in them

• Puritans thought of the theaters to be chapels of Satan

• Shakespeare spent 20 years on the London stage