Shakespeare

Janet Jensen

Shakespeare’s Life

• Birth date April, 1563 in Stratford, England

• John Shakespeare, Leather and City gov.

• Mary Arden• Grammar school• 1582 Ann Hathaway• 1592-1622• 1613-Stratford

Shakespeare’s Theatre

• Plague

• Many deaths

• Plays were written to please royalty

• Globe, The Theatre

• No lights. No women, Lower class audiences

The History of the Play

• Romeo and Juliet was adapted from a poem written two hundred years before Shakespeare came on the scene. There is also a legend that there were two young people that indeed ran away together, were hunted down, and did kill themselves before they were found.

• The Poem has more substantial evidence.

Pictures from Shakespeare

Shakespearean Dress

Romeo and Juliet Project

R om eoIm p atien t

N on -C om m ita lR eb e l

Ju lie tL eve l-h ead edTru s tw orth yC om m ited

F ria r L aw ren ceE m otion a l

P ow er-h u n g ryR esp on s ib le

R om eo an d Ju lie tTrag ed y

Y ou n g loveP re ju d ice

Shakespeare’s Contribution to the Language

• He invented 32,000 words.

• We use about 5,000 today.

• He invented: hot blooded,

• He invented phrases:

• Leapfrog is an example of a compound word invented by Shakespeare.