shakespeare

WHEN WAS THE TIME?

• Elizabethan Age or the Renaissance refers to the long reign (1558-1603) of Queen Elizabeth
• generally considered to be one of the greatest periods in English history

food

• peasants commonly ate milk, beer, cheese
• Rarely meat, fish, and vegetables

hygeine

• NO bathing
• no hand washing
• no teeth cleaning
• poop in the street

clothes

• peasants wore rags of wool and tunics
• wealthy wore exodic dyed dresses and suits

Early SHAKESPEAREAN Life

• born (probably) and died on 23 of April
• son of john shakespeare and mary Arden
• eldest of 6

STRATFORD’S GRAMMAR SCHOOL

1582

Susanna, Hamnet, and Judith Shakespeare

nothing

hathaway and children lived in stratford while Shakespeare worked in London

>20 years

• multiple roles in the London Theatre
• playwright
• business partner with the Lord Chamberlain's Men

1597

1592

37 plays written
154 Sonnets written

HE ALso WRoTE: c0medy's, Tragedies, histories, and poems

THERE ARE MANY PROFANITIES IN HIS WORKS

some popular plays include: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, and A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream

Sources

• folger.edu
• History.comshakespeare.org.uk
• shakespeare.org.uk
• strangehistory.net

Sources

• http://shakespeare.mit.edu/Poetry/sonnets.html -http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/faq/faq.htm

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