Shakespeare Notes

Greatest writer  who ever lived.

*Born in 1564, parents where John Shakespeare and Mary Arden.

Lived in Starford upon Avon, England, dropped out of school at age 13.

1582 he married Anne Hathaway.

Daughter Susana, and twins Hamlet and Judith.

*In 1591 at age of 27 he moved to London where he began his writing career.

*He wrote 37 plays, and 154 Sonnets.

1. He lived and worked in elisabithan era.
2.On more than 1 occasion the queen closed the theaters due to disease.
3.Shakespeare tranlated psalms for king James.
4.Other people where people went was to see executions and they placed their heads over town for people to see.
5.Disease spread because there was no toilets.
6.Queen Elisabeth liked Shakespeare and often suggested characters and topics for his plays.
7.Theatres where in poor areas and were surrounded by prostitution centers, etc.
8.Shakespeare was playa and had his wife and cheated.
9. Shakespeare was rich and famous during lifetime.
10.All actors in Shakespeare time where men so juliet was a man.

Shakespeare plays can be divided into 3 categories: Histories, comedies, and tragedies.

1.Histories: Where based on the lives on the king and Queen.
2.Comedies: are the only plays he wrote that had a happy ending.
3.Tragedies: Always somebody dies, the closing scene is a person dying.