William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He married Anne Hathaway at age 18 and had three children, but also fled to London where he began his career in theater. Shakespeare wrote comedies, histories, tragedies and sonnets over his career. Some of his most famous plays include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth. He was a shareholder in the Lord Chamberlain's Men theatrical company and helped establish the Globe Theatre in London. Shakespeare died in 1616 and is considered one of the greatest English writers in history.

1. TURNING THE PAGES

2. A JOURNEY THROUGH THE LIFE OF WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE

4. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
 Born at Stratford –upon-Avon as the son of
John Shakespeare and Mary Arden.
 He is often called England’s national poet and
the “Bard of Avon”.
 Shakespeare was probably educated at the
King’s New School in Stratford, a grammar
school

5.  House in which Shakespeare born

7.  In 1582 at the age of 18 he married Anne
Hathaway his senior by eight years.
 He fled the town for London in order to
escape punishment for deer poaching
in king’s forest.
 In London he got involved in the Elizabethan
theatre, starting from the very bottom of the
and climbing up step by step to actor, dramatist
and finally shareholder in Lord Chamberlain’s
Men.

8.  Shakespeare’s career as dramatist was
within
the period of Renaissance in Britain.
 His early plays were histories and
comedies.
 The whole sweep of English history from the
days of Richard 2nd to the times of Henry
7th
was condensed into four play sequences.
 The first sequence consisting of the three
parts

9.  The second sequence deals with the history of
England in the days before Henry 6th.
 These plays are Richard 1st, Henry4 part 1 and
2 and Henry 5th.
 Shakespeare’s comedies were festive comedies
which represented a vigorous and energetic
society.

10.  FIRST FOLIO OF 1623
CONSIST OF 36 PLAYS
- PUBLISHED BY JOHN
HEMINGES AND HENRY
CONDELL
 “THE SOUL OF THE
AGE, THE
APPLAUSE,DELIGHT,
THE WONDER OF OUR
STAGE”-BEN JONSON
IN FIRST FOLIO

11. SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDIES
 COMEDY OF ERRORS
 LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST
 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S
DREAM
 THE MERCHANT OF
VENICE
 AS YOU LIKE IT
 ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS
WELL
 TWO GENTLE MEN OF
VERONA
 TAMING OF THE SHREW
 TWELFTH NIGHT
 MERRY WIVES OF
WINDSOR
 MUCH ADO ABOUT
NOTHING
 MEASURE FOR MEASURE
 THE WINTER’S TALE
 TEMPEST

12. SHAKESPAEREAN TRAGEDIES
 Titus Andronicus
 Romeo and Juliet
 Coriolanus
 Timon of Athens
 Macbeth
 Hamlet
 Antony and Cleopatra
 Julius Caesar
 King Lear
 Othello

13. THE GLOBE THEATRE
ESTABLISHED
IN 1599

14. SHAKESPEAREAN SONNETS
 Also known as English form or Elizabethan
form
 Published in 1609
 Consists of three quatrains and a concluding
couplet
 Rhyme scheme- abab cdcd efef gg
 154 Sonnets
 1-126 addressed to Mr.W.H, third Earl of
Southampton
 127- 152 addressed to a ‘dark lady’
 Last two sonnets deal with the general theme
of love

15. DEDICATINGHIS SONNETS TO MR .W.H

16. DEPICTION OF HIS OWN POETIC GENIUS IN HIS SONNETS
 Shakespeare
depicted his own
poetic genius through
his sonnets
“So long as men can
breathe, or eyes can
see, so long lives
this, and this gives
life to thee”

17. TWO NARRATIVE POEMS
VENUS AND ADONIS
THE RAPE OF LUCRECE

20. ON 23RD APRIL 1616 ‘THE SWEET SWAN OF AVON’,
THE GREATEST PLAYWRIGHT WORLD
HAS EVER SEEN, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
BID ADIEU TO THE WORLD LEAVING BEHIND HIS
IMMORTAL WRITINGS

21. SHAKESPEARE’S FUNERAL MONUMENT
“GOOD FRIEND ,FOR
JESUS’SAKE FOR
BEAR,TO DIG THE
DUST ENCLOSED
HERE.
BLESSED BE THE MAN
THAT SPARES THESE
STONES,
AND CURSED BE THAT
MOVES MY BONES”

22. THANK
YOUMA ENGLISH
ST MARY ‘S COLLEGE MANARCAud