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Shakespeare

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Shakespeare

Jayden Gubbels

Early Life

  • Baptized April 26, 1564
  • No birth record
  • Thought to be born April 23, 1564

Early Life

  • son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden
  • two sisters
  • three brothers
  • no records of early education

Marriage and Children

  • Married Anne Hathaway
  • She was 26, he was 18
  • Pregnant when married
  • Daughter Susanna
  • Twins Hamnet and Judith
  • Hamlet died at age 11.

Lost Years

  • Time of no records of Shakespeare
  • Possibly was in hiding
  • Possibly working at a school

Theatre

Theatre

  • popular with people of nobility
  • 15 of 37 plays published by 1597
  • only home during Lent
  • Spent the year in the city writing

Theatre

  • 1599 - built the Globe Theatre
  • adapted his own writing style
  • unryhmed iambic pentameter
  • blank verse

Works

  • Histories
  • Comedies
  • Tragedies
  • Tragicomedies
  • Sonnets

Works

  • 37 plays
  • 154 sonnets
  • Questionable "ghost writer"

Works

  • 37 plays
  • 154 sonnets
  • Questionable "ghost writer"

Death

  • Believe to have died on his birthday
  • April 23, 1616
  • left most of his things to Susanna