7. Wife and Children
Married Anne Hathaway in 1582
Anne was 26, he was 18
3 children
The youngest, Hamnet, died at the
age of 11
8. London
Went to London at
21
Joined a travelling
company of actors
Worked as an
actor and a writer
9. London Life in
the 16th century
High death rate -
plague always
present somewhere
in the city - flared
every 10 years or so
High crime rate
But …
Cultural and political
heart of England
10. The Globe Theatre
Opened in 1599
His success had
made Shakespeare
a rich man
He became one of
the principal investors
13. Shakespeare’s Language
• Learned English at school and in church
• Spoke with Midlands/Warwickshire accent
• Spelling not fixed at that time - writers free
to exploit its potential
• Created 3,000 new words
14. Shakespeare created many new
words such as…
• Barefaced
• Advertising
• Pre-meditated
• Modest
• Vast
• Horrid
15. • if you have ever said something or someone ‘vanished into thin air,’
• refused to ‘budge an inch’
• been ‘tongue-tied’
• or ‘slept not one wink’ (not slept )
• said that it was, ‘high time that something was done’
• if you have ever had your teeth ‘set on edge’,
• said, ‘For goodness' sake!’ or ‘What the dickens!’
- you are quoting Shakespeare!
16. The end of his life
Returned to Stratford
in 1610
Made money buying
and selling land
Destruction of the
Globe Theatre in
1613
In 1616 Shakespeare
died on April, 23 (his
birthday!)
17. Looking back
Shakespeare wrote 37
plays …
… and 154 sonnets…
… and an unknown
number of long epic
poems
18.
19. Romeo and Juliet
• Considered a tragedy
• Love story about two
young people who fell
in love
• Their families were
always quarrelling
• Juliet is to marry Paris
a much older man
• Romeo and Juliet
marry in secret
• Juliet takes a sleeping
potion which makes
her appear dead
• Sends message to
Romeo which he does
not receive
• Romeo thinks she is
dead and kills himself
• Families reunite in
grief at their loss
