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