William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He likely attended the local grammar school and wrote plays, poems, and acted in London theaters between 1585-1616. His works include comedies, histories, tragedies, and problem plays. Shakespeare died in 1616 in his hometown and is buried there, though his works are still widely read today for their insight into Elizabethan England.

1. SHAKESPEARE’S LIFE
Plays and Poems

2. WHERE WAS HE BORN?
• Stratford upon Avon , Warwickshire, England.

3. DESCRIBE HIS UPBRINGING
AND EDUCATION
• William Shakespeare's father was a glover and leather
merchant and his mother a landed local heiress. His family had
that of eight people and he was born to be the third. Three of
these eight died in childhood. There is a lot of assumption of
Shakespeare's early life especially his education although it is
thought that he attended the free grammar school in
Stratford. Which at the time had a reputation to rival eton.

4. WHAT TYPES OF PLAYS HE
WROTE.
• Histories, Comedies, Tragedies and Problem Plays which en
group Comedy and Tragedy.

5. WHERE WERE HIS PLAYS
• TheGlobe and Black Friars and by the Kings Men and young
un pubescent boys.

6. WHAT MADE HIM THE JACK
OF ALL TRADES?
• Acting, Poet, Play Writing and Directing

7. WHEN AND WHERE DID HE
DIE?
• Shakespearedied on April 23, 1616 at Warwickshire, buried in
Stratford Upon Avon.

8. WHY DO WE STILL READ HIS
WORKS TODAY?
• We still read them because they were so famous and well
produced. They also en capture the world that he lived in very
well.

9. THE ELIZABETHAN PERIOD
This was when shakespeare was around!

10. WHO WAS QUEEN
ELIZABETH?
• Queen Elizabeth the first was born on the seventh of september
fifteen-thirty three. She was queen regnant of England and Ireland
from seventeenth of november fifteen-eighty eight until her death
on twenty fourth of march sixteen-o three. She was sometimes
called the virgin queen or good queen bess, she was the fifth and
last monarch of the tudor dynasty. Daughter to king henry the
VIII, she was born a princess, but her mother, Anne Boleyn, was
executed two and a half years after her birth and Elizabeth was
pronounced illegitimate. Elizabeths reign is known as the
Elizabethan Era famous above all for its flourishing English drama
led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher
Marlowe.

11. WHO LEAD AFTER QUEEN
ELIZABETH?
• King James the VI and the I lead after queen Elizabeth the I.

12. WHEN WAS THE
ELIZABETHAN PERIOD?
• 17 November 1558 to 24 march 1603.

13. IDENTIFY A PEASANT AND A
NOBLE DURING
SHAKESPEARE'S ERA
•A peasant was a low class person with a low income and not
very good living standards. However a Noble was a highly paid
person often related to royalty in the work place such as a
guard or a jester. These people often had a high standard of
living and a sustainable income.

14. WHAT WERE COMMON
PUNISHMENTS?
• Themost common punishments during the elizabethan era
were burning, drowning, stretching or beating.

15. HOW DID THE BUBONIC
PLAGUE EFFECT ENGLAND?
• Iteffected England by knocking out 30-60% of Europe's
population.

16. WHAT IS PRIMOGENITURE?
• Primogeniture is to be the first born child.

17. DESCRIBE ELIZABETHS
EDUCATION?
• Queen elizabeth was Governed until the age of 11 and then
up until 16 she had a tutor.

18. WHAT TYPES OF
ENTERTAINMENT DID
ELIZABETH ENJOY?
• Queen Elizabeth loved hunting and riding and did so even in
her old age and she also loved music, dancing and poetry.