The Renaissance Period Elizabethan Era (Queen Elizabeth) SHAKESPEARE: HIS LIFE AND TIMES Adapted fromIntroduction.ppt Early Life Born 1564died 1616 born around April 23,1564. We know this from the earliest record: his baptism which happened on Wednesday, April the 26th, 1564 Therefore, it is celebrated three days earlier. In Stratford-upon-Avon Parents: John and Mary Arden Shakespeare Marydaughter of wealthy landowner Johnglovemaker, local politician From: From:Location of Stratford-upon-Avon As reproduced in William Rolfe, Shakespeare the Boy (1896). Probably attended Kings New School in Stratford His school day was long and rigorous Educated in: -Rhetoric-Logic -History-Latin Shakespeare dropped out of middle school when his father lost his fortune Education From: Married in 1582 to Anne Hathaway, who was pregnant at the time with their first daughter Had twins in Hamnet & Judith Hamnet died from the plague at age 11 Sometime between , he moved to London and began working in theatre. The years are know as The Lost Years No one know where he was, or what he was doing during those years Married Life From:Anne Hathaways Cottage His Work He goes to London where he writes his first plays. 38 plays firmly attributed to Shakespeare 14 comedies 10 histories 10 tragedies 4 romances Possibly wrote three others Collaborated on several others 154 sonnets (mostly written between 1596 and 1603) His Work He is not only a playwright but an actor as well. The theatres close down because of the plague in He writes book-length poems at this time called Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece When the theaters reopen, he writes more plays and becomes a charter member of Lord Chamberlains Men The Rebuilt Globe Theater, London Shakespeares Major Works The Comedy of Errors Henry VI (three parts) Richard III Titus Andronicus The Taming of the Shrew The Two Gentlemen of Verona "The Rape of Lucrece" "Sonnets" Love's Labor's Lost Romeo and Juliet Richard II A Midsummer Night's Dream King John "Venus and Adonis" The Merchant of Venice Henry IV (Part I) Henry IV (Part II) Much Ado About Nothing Henry V 1599 Julius Ceasar As You Like It Twelfth Night Hamlet The Merry Wives of Windsor "The Phoenix and the Turtle" Troilus and Cressida All's Well That Ends Well Othello Measure for Measure Timon of Athens King Lear Macbeth Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Pericles O - Cymbeline 161O-1I - The Winter's Tale 161I - The Tempest Henry VIII The Two Noble Kinsmen Other events In 1603, Queen Elizabeth dies and King James I becomes the new ruler of England. Lord Chamberlains Men are renamed to The Kings Men and Shakespeare writes tragedies. In 1608, he moves back to Stratford. Shakespeares Death He dies on April 23, 1616 his burial being recorded in the Stratford Holy Church Register two days later. He was 52. Not exactly sure what he died from History says he drank too much wine and ate too many pickled herrings In his will, Shakespeare left money, horses, stables, etc. to his two sons-in-law But only left his wife one thing- the second-best bed Was he trying to make a point? Shakespeare is buried in Holy Trinity Church in his birth village of Stratford. His grave is covered by a flat stone that bears an epitaph warning of a curse to come upon anyone who moves his bones. His First Folio was published posthumously by two members of the Kings Men Shakespeares Death