All about

Shakespeare
Vanshika Rustagi
IGCSE 1
 Major events in Shakespeare's life
Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway The orignal cover of the play
dingeengoete.blogspot.co.uk https://genius.com/albums/William-
shakespeare/Romeo-and-juliet
Both Anne Hathaway and
Romeo and Juliet a tragic
Shakespeare got married
love story was written by
very suddenly in 1582 so
Shakespeare in 1595 and
that their first child,
it is still considered the
Sussana would be born
epitome of love and love
after wedlock
stories.
The globe theatre
https://www.dkfindout.com/us/music-art-
and-literature/shakespeares-globe/
The orignal cover of the Hamlet
https://www.folger.edu/hamlet
Shakespeare created Shakespeare wrote Hamlet
the Globe Theatre out which in 1600, the first
of lumber from the production of the 17th
demolished remains of century while grieving the
death of his son Hamnet
'The Theatre' in 1599
giving the story it's name
 Comedy Tragedy Historical TRagi- COMEDY

The poster of a production

The cover of the book The first page of the orignal book
The cover page of the book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comedy https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781909 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_ https://www.wattpad.com/story/177229
_of_Errors 621916 (play) 530-the-tempest

Comedy of
Othello Richard III The Tempest
Errors
 Shakespeare's era
The Elizabethan era
Shakespeare was born and spent the
majority of his life in the Elizabethan Era.
This era was considered the golden age for
England. During these years naval trade
flourished and Britain also started
expanding itself into different colonies.
However these era was the best for
Literature and Art. During this age, many
prolific artists and writers like Shakespeare,
himself wrote classic plays and stories which The Elizabethan Era
http://www.elizabethan.org/compendium/
are popular and well-known to this day. home.html
 Shakespeare's era
The Society
During the Elizabethan Era the society was
very rigid and different from the society today.
It was very patriarchal and heirarchal. In those
times women were supposed to stay silent and
not earn money. Even Shakespeare had men
play roles of women in his plays as women
were forbidden from acting. Society was also
divided into classes which made people very Women in the lower class
http://www.elizabethancostume.net/lower
inferior or superior causes differences class/lcolors.html

amongst people
 Shakespeare's era
The GLOBE STAGE
The stage in the Globe Theatre was a structure
that was very elaborate. It had multiple trap-
doors and two rooms (the inner room and
outer room). The inner room was hidden from
the audience and also used as a green-romm
but was also used at times to show two scenes
that are supposed to be going on together. The
trapdoors below were known as Hell and they The stage

were used to make dramatic entrances along

https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/di
scover/blogs-and-
features/2020/04/16/a-tale-of-heaven-
with using it as a place where the external to-hell/

noises would come from.

 Shakespeare's era
The audience
The audience in Shakespeare's play was
a variety of people as everybody was
permitted to come see the play for a
small sum. The audience would be in the
field in front or the gallery above(for a
higher sum of money). People were very
forward about their opinions and would
The audience
even throw things if they did not like the https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.e
du/2018/09/25/elizabethan-theater-
play. etiquette-audience-expectations/
 Video on Shakespeare
This is a very interesting video talking about the insults that Shakespeare
used in some of his plays and how creative and intriguing they are. It also
talks about how these insults help create a mood and atmosphere for the
play.
Quiz on Shakespeare
How many words and lines have I written in total?

I have written approximately 884,600

words and about 118,400 lines

Which was the last play i wrote?

I had last written the Two Noble

Kinsmen along with John Fletcher
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