William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avan, is one of the most famous writers in England. William Shakespeare, nicknamed as Bard of Avon, is considered as one of the most famous writers of England. widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language the world's pre-eminent dramatist England's national poet  He was also an actor. Born on 26 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. His father John Shakespeare was a businessman and a glove maker. Mother, Mary, was the daughter of a landowner. He was the third child (of 8 children)

1. WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
INSTRUCTOR:
SOHAIL AHMED KALHORO

2. “with patient ears attend”

3. • Have you heard these phrases?

4. I couldn’t sleep a wink

5. •He was dead as a doornail.

6. •She’s a tower of strength.

7. •It’s all Greek to me

8. • These are some phrases coined by William Shakespeare

9. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564 – 1616)
• William Shakespeare, nicknamed as Bard of Avon, is considered as one of the most famous writers of
England.
• widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language
• the world's pre-eminent dramatist
• England's national poet
• He was also an actor.
• Born on 26 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon.
• His father John Shakespeare was a businessman and a glove maker.
• Mother, Mary, was the daughter of a landowner.
• He was the third child (of 8 children)

10. AGE & MOVEMENT
• Age:
• Elizabethan Age
• Jacobean Age
• Movement:
• Renaissance

11. EARLY LIFE
• Early life in Stratford
• The register of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, shows
that he was baptized there on April 26, 1564; his birthday is traditionally
celebrated on April 23.
• He was educated at local grammar school from the age of 7 to 13.
• Then he moved to London where he started his career

12. MARRIAGE & CHILDREN
• At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three
children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith.
• Hamnet dies at 11 (due to Plague)

13. LOST YEARS
• The period between 1585 and 1592 is known as the “Lost Years” because there
are no documentary records of Shakespeare’s activities

14. LATER YEARS
• Moved to London around 1591 and became an actor
• Worked with the Lord Chamberlin’s company of players, later known as the King’s
Men
• He worked with John Hemmings and Henry Condell
• Along with acting, he also wrote some of the most renowned and studied
literature written in the English language
• Poems-famous for his sonnets
• Plays-Comedies, Tragedies, and Histories

15. MAJOR WORKS
• He wrote about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other
verses.
• His plays have been translated into every major living language and are
performed more often than those of any other playwright.

16. COMEDIES
• All’s Well that Ends Well
• As You Like It
• Comedy of Errors
• Measure for Measure
• Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Taming of the Shrew
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Twelfth Night
• Merchant of Venice

17. TRAGEDIES
• Tragedies include:
• Julius Caesar
• Hamlet
• Macbeth
• Othello
• Romeo and Juliet
• King Lear

18. HISTORIES
• King Henry V
• King John
• Richard II
• Richard III

19. WORKS
• He wrote 37 very successful plays.
• His vocabulary was HUGE-somewhere between 17,000 and 34,000 words
• He had an amazing influence on English language.
• More words that first appeared in his plays:
• Accommodation - lonely Assassination gloomy
• Dexterously fretful Dislocate suspicious
• Hurry Reliance

20. LATER YEARS
• Returned to Stratford around 1610 where he lived as a country gentleman•
• Wealthy-Owned one of the largest homes in town
• Died in Stratford in 1616 at the age of 52.
• His death was a mystery.
• It is rumored that he drank too much and contracted a fever or that he died from
a cerebral hemorrhage.

21. GLOBE THEATER
• Globe Theater:
• Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain’s Men performed at Burbage’s theater until 1599, when they
built their own playhouse, the Globe
• Shakespeare referred to the Globe as “this wooden O,” a term that led scholars to believe it was a
circular building.
• Globe Theater was located just outside of London
• A white flag indicates that there is a play today.
• Plays were performed during the day.
• The wealthy sat in the upper decks.
• Young men dressed up to play the female roles.

22. • Globe Theatre became so famous that it became an official theatre and began to perform for the
queen.
• Attending Shakespeare’s theater was quite different from attending theater today, which is
thought of as very quiet and austere.
• After queen Elizabeth’s death in 1603, the new king James I asked Shakespeare’s company to be
his official theatre company known as ‘King’s Men’ (first it was called the Lord Chamberlain's
Men).
• In Elizabethan England it was a noisy, popular gathering place for people of all ages and from all
walks of life
• The original theater was destroyed by a fire in 1613.
• It was rebuilt in 1614, closed in 1642, and demolished in 1644

23. VIEWS OF OTHER WRITERS ABOUT SHAKESPEARE
• Ben Jonson: “was not of an age, but for all time,”
• Robert Greene: ‘a upstart crow’

24. • Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare
• To dig the dust enclosed here.
• Blessed be the man that spares these stones
• And cursed be he who moves my bones.