William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He likely attended the local grammar school and went on to have a successful career as an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre director in London. Some of his most famous plays were performed at the Globe Theatre. Shakespeare wrote comedies, histories, tragedies, and problem plays. He died in 1616 in Stratford and is still considered one of the greatest writers in the English language today due to his plays capturing the world of 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.

19. INTELLECTUAL AND
RELIGIOUS
(In the Elizabethan Period)

20. DESCRIBE THE FOUR
Earth
Air ELEMENTS Zodiac
Zodiac
Fire Water
Zodiac Zodiac
• Thefour elements are air, fire, water and air they compose the
earth by well because without any of them the world would
not be possible like without water we would all die of
dehydration. Without fire we would all freeze. Without earth
we would have nowhere to live and without air we would
have nothing to breath.

21. WHAT WAS THE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
HUMOURS AND ILLNESSES?
• The relationships between humours and illnesses are that the
humours have to do with your bodily functions so that could
affect your health therefore being an illness.

22. WHAT TYPES OF MEDICINE
WERE USED DURING THE
ELIZABETHAN PERIOD?
• Themedicines that were used during the elizabethan period
were often quite aberrant or unusual and they were dispensed
by physicians.

23. WHAT WAS THE MAIN
RELIGION AND WHAT
CHANGES WERE TAKING
PLACE?
• The to main religions were Catholicism and Protestant. Also
the changes that were taking place were the Church of
England was being established during this time..

24. THE GREAT CHAIN OF BEING
• Thegreat chain of being describes where which thing stands in
the mind of the universe

25. ELIZABETHAN THEATRES

26. WHERE WERE MOST OF THE
THEATRES BUILT IN OR OUT
OF THE CITY?
• Most theatres were built out of the city.

27. WHY IS THE GLOBE THEATRE
SO FAMOUS?
• Itis so famous because most of William Shakespeares first
plays were performed there.

28. WHEN WERE THE PLAYS
PERFORMED?
• The plays were performed at around 3 in the afternoon.

29. WHO PLAYED THE FEMALE
ROLES AND WHY?
• The roles of females were played by unpubecent boys
because there voices were high and they did this because if
the females played on stage it was considered just as if they
were playing in a sex show.

30. WHAT OTHER SKILLS BESIDES
FOR ACTING DID THE
ACTORS NEED?
• They may need singing and they would need to be physically
stable.

31. HOW MUCH WOULD PEOPLE
PAY TO STAND AT THE GLOBE?
• People would pay 1 penny to stand at the globe.

32. WHO WAS RICHARD
BURBAGE?
• Richard Burbage was an english actor and theatre owner.

33. WHO WERE THE KINGS MEN ?
• The Kings men were the main actors in the theatres in the
elizabethan period.

34. THEATRICAL TERMS
• Pit was the abbreviated word for where the orchestra sits
•A Groundling was a playgoer watching from the standing
section
• A Trap Door is a sliding or hinged door in a floor or ceiling
• Tiring means to become in need of rest or sleep