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23RD APRIL 2013A DATE TO REMEMBER WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
William Shakespeare,
often called the English national poet, is widely considered the greatest
dramatist of all time.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY Born Baptized 26 April 1564 (birth date unknown)
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
Died 23 April 1616 (aged 52)Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
EDUCATIONOccupation
King's New SchoolPlaywright, poet, actor
Nationality English
Period English Renaissance
Spouse(s) Anne Hathaway (m. 1582–1616)
Children Susanna Hall Hamnet Shakespeare Judith Quiney
Relative(s) John Shakespeare (father) Mary Shakespeare (mother)
Hamlet:To be, or not to be, that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummationDevoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
WorksComediesMain article: Shakespearean comedy All's Well That Ends Well ‡ As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure ‡ The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre *† The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest * Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen *† The Winter's Tale *
HistoriesMain article: Shakespearean history King John Richard II Henry IV, Part 1 Henry IV, Part 2 Henry V Henry VI, Part 1 † Henry VI, Part 2 Henry VI, Part 3 Richard III Henry VIII †
WORKS • Tragedies• Main article: Shakespearean tragedy• Romeo and Juliet• Coriolanus• Titus Andronicus †• Timon of Athens †• Julius Caesar• Macbeth †• Hamlet• Troilus and Cressida ‡• King Lear• Othello• Antony and Cleopatra• Cymbeline *
WORKS
Poems Shakespeare's sonnets Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece The Passionate Pilgrim[nb 5]
The Phoenix and the Turtle A Lover's Complaint
Lost plays Love's Labour's Won The History of Cardenio †
ApocryphaMain article: Shakespeare Apocrypha Arden of Faversham The Birth of Merlin Edward III Locrine The London Prodigal The Puritan The Second Maiden's Tragedy Sir John Oldcastle Thomas Lord Cromwell A Yorkshire Tragedy Sir Thomas More
SOME QUOTES
Lear:"Nothing can come of nothing: speak again."
• King Lear (I, i, 92)
• Hero:"Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps."
• Much Ado About Nothing (III, i, 106)
• Lorenzo:"The man that hath no music in himself,Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds,Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils."
The Merchant of Venice (V, i, 83-85)• Ophelia:O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword,Th' expectation and rose of the fair state,The glass of fashion and the mould of form,Th' observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down!
Hamlet, Act 3, scene 1, 150–154
THE THEATRE IN HIS TIME
The public theatres were three stories high, They were built around an open space at the centre,
usually polygonal. They had three levels of inward-facing galleries for
the audience. They were usually built of timber, lath and plaster
and with thatched roofs, The early theatres were vulnerable to fire so they
were replaced with stronger structures.
Performances
The acting companies functioned on a repertory system; The company played six days a week, They performed 23 different plays, some only once, They never played the same play two days in a row, and
rarely the same play twice in a week. The companies included only males and female parts were
played by adolescent boy players in women's costume. Costumes were often bright in color and expensive.
EXHIBITION
Acknowledgements
• http://www.biography.com/people/william-shakespeare-9480323?page=2
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Renaissance_theatre
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
• Images taken from
• Teteg.2013