Shakespeare

Biographical information William Shakespeare was born on April 26th

1564, in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England. He was

an important member of the Lord Chamberlain’s

Men company of the theatre actors. Shakespeare

married Anne Hathaway at the age of 18 in 1582.

He had a daughter, Susanna and two twins,

Hamlet and Judith. He died mysteriously on April

23th 1616 at the age of 52.

This is their house that can still be visited.

And this is the portrait of Shakespeare’s family at the beginning, without the two twins.

Most famous works Hamlet

Romeo and Juliet

Henry IV

Macbeth

The tempest

Since its first recorded production, Hamlet has engrossed playgoers, thrilled readers, and challenged even the most gifted actors. No other single work of fiction has produced more commonly used expressions.

Hamlet

Romeo and Juliet

In Verona two families , the Montagues and the Capulets, are enemies and they frequently fight.The Prince of Verona orders them to keep the peace. The Capulets have a party and Lord Capulet invites Paris, who wants to marry Juliet.

Henry IV

Henry IV has two main stories that intersect a dramatic battle at the and of the play.The first story concerns King Henry IV, his son, Prince Harry and their strained relationship.The second concerns a rebellion that is being plotted against King Henry by a discontented family (the Percys), who are angry because of King Henry’s refusal to recognize his debt to them.

Macbeth

A thunderstorm and three witches conclude a meeting. They decide to confront the great Scottish general Macbeth on his victorious return from a war between Scotland and Norway. The Scottish king, Duncan, decides that he will confer the title of the traitorous Cawdor on the heroic Macbeth.

Most famous quotes

“To be or not to be, that is the question”

-Hamlet

“Hell is empty and all devils are here”

-The Tempest

“Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting

that would not let me sleep”

-MacBeth

“Instinct is a great matter, I was a coward on instinct”

-Henry IV

“What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other would smell as sweet”-Romeo and Juliet

The original Globe Theatre was built in 1599 by Lord Chamberlain’s men in which Shakespeare was a manager and principal actor.

It caught fire in 1613 during a performance. After this it was rebuilt in 1614 and then demolished in 1644. The

Global theatre opened again in 1997 but changed the name in Shakespeare’s Globe.

The Globe Theatre

Characteristics of the theatre

It was painted in marvelos colour, with a circular shape. There weren’t artificial lights. Over the three-story tiring-house was a superstructure composed of huts, resting on a protecting roof, held up by giant

posts rising from the main platform. It would appear from drawings of the Bankside that every playhouse contemporaneous with the Globe had a superstructure of one or multiple huts, but the Globe's huts, seem the

most elaborate.

In the floor of the superstructure were several trap-openings allowing props to hang down over the stage or actors to descend to the floor, suspended by wires concealed under their costumes. The cannon that was so often fired during battle and coronation scenes was located in the huts.