This presentation will give you deep insight into the life and the journey of William Shakespeare from William Shakespeare to the Great William Shakespeare as we know him today.

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2. In April 1564, William Shakespeare born in Stratford-upon-Avon to John
and Mary Shakespeare, third child of eight and eldest surviving son.
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3. In 1582 at the age of 18 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, who is
8 years older than Shakespeare and pregnant with their first child.
The Courtship of William Shakespeare
Anne HathawayWilliam Shakespeare
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4. In 1583
SUSANNA SHAKESPEARE
William and Anne's first child, was born and
baptized 26 May 1583
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5. In 1585 Shakespeare’s twins, Judith and Hamnet, were born and baptized on
2 February 1585.
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6. 1592: Shakespeare is first alluded to as a playwright, in Greene’s
Groatsworth of Wit.
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7. In 1593 Shakespeare’s first printed poem, Venus and Adonis, appears.
 Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem.
 It is probably Shakespeare's first publication.
 It is written in stanzas of six lines of iambic pentameter
rhyming ABABCC.
 It is now commonly known as the Venus and Adonis stanza,
after this poem.
 The poem consists of 199 stanzas or 1,194 lines.
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8. In 1594 Shakespeare’s first printed play, Titus Andronicus, appears.
 Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written
between 1588 and 1593, probably in collaboration with George Peele.
 The play is set during the latter days of the Roman Empire and tells the story of Titus, a
fictional general in the Roman army.
 It is Shakespeare's bloodiest and most violent work.
 The Victorian era disapproved of it because of its distasteful graphic violence.
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9. 1596: William Shakespeare’s son, Hamnet, dies.
Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
Hamnet Shakespeare was the only son of William
Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway.
He was the fraternal twin of Judith Shakespeare.
 He died at the age of 11.
He was buried 11 August 1596 in Stratford-upon-
Avon, Warwickshire, England

10. In 1597 Shakespeare purchases New Place in
Stratford-upon-Avon
 Shakespeare buys New Place, the largest house in the center
of Stratford-upon-Avon, for about £120.
 The house now known as Shakespeare's Birthplace stands on
Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK.
 Documentary evidence allows us to trace who owned the house
and who lived there, from the time of William's parents John and
Mary Shakespeare, onwards. John Shakespeare lived and worked
in this house for fifty years.

11. In 1598 Shakespeare is first mentioned as a sonneteer and author
of 12 plays in Palladis Tamia
 Palladis Tamia, subtitled "Wits Treasury", is a 1598 book
written by the minister Francis Meres.
 In the "Comparative Discourse" section Meres lists a dozen Shakespearean
plays, identified by him as six comedies and six tragedies.
 “Comedy”: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Comedy of Errors, Love's
Labors Lost, Love Labors Won, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Merchant
of Venice;
 "Tragedy": Richard II, Richard III, Henry the IV, King John, Titus
Andronicus, and Romeo and Juliet), establishing their composition before
1598.

12. 1599: Shakespeare’s father is granted a confirmation of arms; Shakespeare’s
acting company takes down its old theater and uses the timber to build the
Globe.
 The Globe Theater had a 1,500 plus audience capacity.
Yet, up to 3,000 people would flock to the theatre and
its grounds.
 Theatre performances were held in the afternoon,
because, of there was no artificial lighting.
 Men and women attended plays, but often the
prosperous women would wear a mask to disguise
their identity.
 Probably the first Shakespeare play to be performed at
the Globe was Julius Caesar, in 1599

13. In 1600 Extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poetry appear in Bel-vedere, the
first printed literary commonplace book to include plays.
Bel-vedére or The Garden of the
Muses is an early modern printed
commonplace book consisting of 4,482
one- or two-line quotations of
decasyllabic verse, arranged under
topical headings, including well over
two hundred quotations of William
Shakespeare and of Edmund Spenser,
and over 50 of Christopher Marlowe.

14. 1601: Shakespeare’s father, John Shakespeare, dies
John Shakespeare
Born: 1531, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
Died: 7 September 1601, Stratford-upon-Avon, United
Kingdom
Spouse: Mary Shakespeare (m. 1557–1601)
Children: William Shakespeare, Joan Shakespeare, MORE
Parents: Richard Shakespeare, Abigail Webb

15. 1603: Shakespeare’s acting company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men,
becomes the King’s Men at the accession of James I; Hamlet appears in print
 Shakespeare’s acting company.
 Produced by Lord Chamberlain in 1594.
 He, as a patron, gave the company permission
and money to perform their shows

16.  1607: Shakespeare’s daughter Susanna marries John Hall
 1608: Shakespeare’s mother, Mary (Arden) Shakespeare, dies; his
granddaughter Elizabeth is born.
Mary (Arden) Shakespeare Elizabeth Bernard

17. 1609: Shakespeare’s Sonnets appears in print.
 A sonnet is a poetic form which originated at the Court of the
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in Palermo, Sicily.
 The primary source of Shakespeare’s sonnets is a quarto published
in 1609 titled Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
 It contains 154 sonnets.
 The sonnets cover such themes as the passage of time, love,
infidelity, jealousy, beauty and mortality.
 The word sonnet is derived from the Italian word “sonetto,”
which means a “little song” or small lyric.
 A sonnet is a fourteen line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme and
always written in iambic pentameter.
 The sonnets are constructed of three quatrains (four-line stanzas)
followed by a final couplet ( two lines).

18. 1613: Shakespeare purchases the Black friars gatehouse in London.
In June 29, 1613 the Globe burns down during a performance of Henry VIII and is rebuilt
within a year

19. 1616: Shakespeare writes his will; his daughter
Judith marries Thomas Quiney.
Thomas Quiney. Judith Shakespeare
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20. In 1616 Shakespeare dies
 Shakespeare died on the day he turned 52 i.e. his birthday –
23 April 1616.
 He was buried in his local parish church, Holy Trinity
Church in Stratford-on-Avon.
 Shakespeare’s grave is famous for having a curse as an
epitaph on its’ gravestone which Shakespeare himself wrote:
Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare,
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones.
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21. In 1623 Shakespeare’s First Folio is published
 The First Folio, printed in 1623, is the first published
collection of Shakespeare's plays, produced seven years
after his death.
 Its title is Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies,
Histories & Tragedies.
 For the first time it groups his plays into those
categories—comedies, histories, and tragedies.
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22. In 1623 Shakespeare’s widow Anne dies
Inscribed brass on Anne Shakespeare's tombstone in the
Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon
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