William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote over 30 plays and 154 sonnets throughout his career. Some of his most famous plays include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of 52 and was buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford.

1. William
Shakespeare
1564 - 1616

2. January 2, 2013
Do Now:
What do you already know
about Shakespeare? His life?
His plays?

3. The Greatest English Writer
 William Shakespeare
was born on April 23,
1564 in Stratford-upon-
Avon. Shakespeare was
the most documented
Elizabethan playwright
who was recognised in
his own lifetime. After
retiring and making his
will out on March 25,
1616, Shakespeare died
on April 23, 1616.
Nothing is recorded on
the cause of his death.

4. Shakespeare's Life
 John Shakespeare, William's
father, was a glover and a
whittawer. He was a highly
successful and respected man.
His father held many public
official positions: mayor, town
council man, and justice of
peace. Shakespeare's father was
not able to write. In 1576, John's
business went down. He
Stratford on Avon stopped attending meetings and
social events. Shakespeare was
twelve at this point in time.

8. Shakespeare's mother was
Mary Arden. She came from a
wealthy family who paid a
handsome dowry to marry her
off.
While living on Henly Street,
she bore eight children with the
Shakespeare name.

9.  Shakespeare went to Stratford
Grammar School where he studied
classics written in Greek and Latin.
His teachers gave him the incentive
to read.
 He was taught by two Oxford
graduates, Simon Hunt and Thomas
Jenkins. Shakespeare had an
unusual keen observation of both
nature and mankind. His education
was said to have ended here.

10.  On November 27, 1582,
Shakespeare married
Ann Hathaway who was
twenty-eight years old.
On May 26, 1583, Ann
bore their first
daughter, Susanna. In
1585, a set of twins
were born, Judith and
Hamnet. Hamnet died
at the age of eleven in
1596.
 No evidence was found
of Shakespeare Ann Hathaway's House
between the years of
1585 1592. These years
of Shakespeare's life
were called "The
Hidden Years".

13. Shakespeare's Memorial
Places in Stratford on Avon
Shakespeare’s Memorial Theater

15. Monument
to Lady
Macbeth

16. The Trinity
Church Where
William
Shakespeare
Was Baptized
And later
Buried.

17. A Stained-
Glass
Window

18. A Monument
to
William
Shakespeare

19. January 3
Do Now:
 Read Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare.
 1. What is the poem conveying?
 2. What is the rhyme scheme?
 3. How many syllables per line?
 4. In the first 2 lines, mark which
syllables are stressed and unstressed.

20. Hidden Years
 During Shakespeare's Hidden Years,
many people suspected that he ran
away from the law or became a
butcher's apprentice. Christopher
Beston, called "The Chronicle of the
Stage", was also a prominent
theatrical manager. Beston told John
Aubry, who wrote "Brief Lies", that
Shakespeare was probably a school
teacher during these years. No
evidence was found of Shakespeare's
whereabouts until 1592 in London.

21. London Period
 In London, Shakespeare
established himself as an
actor who began to write
many plays. In 1593, he
found a patron, Henry
Wriothsley, to sponsor
him. During this time, he
wrote two long poems. His
first long poem, "Venus
and Adonius", was written
in 1593. In 1594, he wrote
his second long poem,
“Lucrece". The theatres
also opened again after
the plague during this
year.

22. The Globe Theater
 Shakespeare worked for
"Lord Chamberlain's
Men" company that later
became "The King's Men"
in 1603 after King James
I took over. This company
became the largest and
most famous acting
company because
Shakespeare performed
and worked for them. His
plays were usually
performed by this
company.

23. . All 154 of his sonnets were published
in 1609. At this time, Richard Burbage
was considered the greatest actor.
James Burbage, Richard's father, was
the first to build a theatre in London
called "The Theatre" in 1576. In 1599,
"The Globe" was built in a circular
shape.

24.  The plays in this
theatre usually
lasted for three days.
The first day,
expenses were paid,
the second day, the
actors were paid,
and the third day,
the playwright was
paid. Other theatres
to follow were the
following: "The
Curtain", "The
Rose", "The Swan",
"The Fortune", "The
Red Bull", and "The
Hamlet Hope".

25.  As an actor, writer,
director, and a
stockholder in "The
King's Men"
company,
Shakespeare had
multiple sources of
income. He was
becoming a very
wealthy man. In
1597, Shakespeare
bought New Place
which was a very
large house for his
family to live in.

26. At the End
 Shakespeare left London in 1611 and
retired. On March 25, 1616,
Shakespeare made a will. He died
April 23, 1616 at the age of fifty-two.
The cause of his death was unknown.
Many people believe that Shakespeare
knew he was dying; however, he
didn't want anyone to know that he
was.

27. The Modern Building of the
Globe Theater in London.

28.  At Shakespeare's time, after the
graveyard was full, they would
dig one's corpse up and burn the
person's bones in a huge
fireplace. Some people would
strip the corpse after the burial.
Shakespeare hated this type of
treatment after death, so he
wrote his own epitaph.

29. Shakespeare's Will
 "Good Friends, for
Jesus' sake
forbear,
To dig the bones
enclosed here!
Blest be the man
that spares these
stones,
And curst be he
that moves my
bones."

30.  Due to the fact that the people at
this time were superstitious, no
one ever bothered his corpse. A
while ago, a few people wanted to
dig him up and check his bones to
be sure that the person buried
there was Shakespeare. However,
the government would not allow it.

31. Shakespeare's Grave

34.  In 1623, Shakespeare's first folio
was published. The folio included:
154 sonnets, 37 plays, and 2 long
poems.
 His friends compiled all of his work
into this folio before anyone could
reproduce his plays and claim them
as their own.
 Many of his plays are famous and
are studied by students today.

35. Romeo and Juliet

39. King Lear

42. The Twelfth Night

45. Hamlet

50. Caesar and Cleopatra

51. Some Sonnets
 Let me not to the marriage of
Let me not to the marriage of Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
true minds Admit impediments. Thou art more lovely and more
Love is not love temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds
Which alters when it alteration of May,
finds, Or bends with the And summer's lease hath all too short a
remover to remove: O no! it is date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven
an ever-fixed mark shines,
That looks on tempests and is And often is his gold complexion
never shaken; It is the star to dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime
every wandering bark, declines,
Whose worth's unknown, By chance, or nature's changing
course, untrimm'd;
although his height be taken. But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Love's not Time's fool, though Nor lose possession of that fair thou
rosy lips and cheeks owest;
Within his bending sickle's Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in
his shade,
compass come: Love alters not When in eternal lines to time thou
with his brief hours and weeks, growest;
But bears it out even to the So long as men can breathe, or eyes can
edge of doom. If this be error see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to
and upon me proved, I thee.
never writ, nor no man ever
loved.

52. When in disgrace with fortune and Not marble, nor the gilded
men's eyes, monuments
I all alone beweep my outcast Of princes, shall outlive this
state, powerful rhyme;
And trouble deaf Heaven with my But you shall shine more bright
bootless cries, in these contents
And look upon myself, and curse Than upswept stone,
my fate, besmear'd with sluttish time.
Wishing me like to one more rich When wasteful war shall
in hope, statues overturn,
Featur'd like him, like him with And broils root out the work
friends possess'd, of masonry,
Desiring this man's art, and that Nor Mars his sword nor war's
man's scope, quick fire shall burn
With what I most enjoy The living record of your
contented least: memory.
Yet in these thoughts myself ‘Gainst death and all oblivious
almost despising, enmity
Haply I think on thee,--and then Shall you pace forth; your
my state praise shall still find room,
(Like to the lark at break of day Even in the eyes of all posterity
arising That wear this world out to
From sullen earth) sings hymns the ending doom.
at heaven's gate; So, till the judgment that
For thy sweet love remember'd yourself arise,
such wealth brings You live in this, and dwell in
That then I scorn to change my lovers' eyes.
state with kings'.