PROJECT - SHAKESPEARE

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

By Silvia Grau Gil

BORN: baptized 26 April 1564 (birth date unknown) Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
DIED: April 23, 1616
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
OCCUPATION: Playwright, poet, actor
NATIONALITY: English

BIOGRAPHY

William Shakespeare was the son of JOHN SHAKESPEARE, a successful glover and alderman originally from Snitterfield, and MARY ARDEN, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer. He was born in STRATFORD-UPON-AVON and baptized on 26 April 1564. He was the third child of eight. He died on 23 April 1616.
He was educated at the KING’S NEW SCHOOL in Stratford.
At the age of 18, Shakespeare married the 26-year-old ANNE HATHAWAY. The consistory court of the Diocese of Worcester issued a marriage licence on 27 November 1582. Six months after the marriage, she gave birth to a daughter, SUSANNA, who was baptised on 26 May 1583. Twins, son HAMNET and daughter JUDITH, followed almost two years later and were baptised on 2 February 1585. Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried on 11 August 1596.

* Anne HATHAWAY and their cottage.

SHAKESPEARE AND THE THEATRE

At 1892, aproximately, he went to London, where he started writing.
He write a lot of theatres, which most of them became a success. Nowadays the most famous shakespeare theatres are still in our lifes, and acted in a lot of theatres.
He wrote comedies, poems, histories, tragedies, hypocrypha... However when he was more succesfull was in TRAGEDIES. For example, we can point out Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth or Hamlet.

HIS WORKS:

COMEDIES

All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Winter's Taleg

TRAGEDIES

Romeo and Juliet
Coriolanus
Titus Andronicus
Timon of Athens
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Hamlet
Troilus and Cressida
King Lear
Othello
Antony and Cleopatra
Cymbeline

POEMS

Shakespeare's Sonnets
Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
The Passionate Pilgrim[k]
The Phoenix and the Turtle
A Lover's Complaint

APOCRYPHA

•Arden of Faversham
•The Birth of Merlin
•Locrine
•The London Prodigal
•The Puritan
•The Second Maiden's Tragedy
•Sir John Oldcastle
•Thomas Lord Cromwell
•A Yorkshire Tragedy
•Edward III
•Sir Thomas More

HISTORIES

King John
Richard II
Henry IV, part 1
Henry IV, part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, part 1
Henry VI, part 2
Henry VI, part 3
RichardIII
Henry VIII

LOST PLAYS

Love's Labour's Won
Cardenio

1 H a t h a W a y
2 T I t u s
3 E L i z a b e t h
4 J u L i u s C a e s a r
5 F I r s t F o l i o
6 H A m n e t
7 M a r y A r d e n
8 S t r a t f o r d
9 C H r i s t o p h e r
10 B u r b A g e
11 K i n g L e a r
12 R o s E
13 S u s a n n a
14 O P h e l i a
15 G l o b E
16 M A c b e t h
17 R i c h a r d
18 O t h E l l o

[The CAPITAL LETERS that aren't the first ones are a word: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE]

SOAP OPERA

(3 girls are sitting, watching the TV)

Maria: Oh! Today I went to the Hairdresser's shop and Montse told me that Charles and Miriam are in love!
Sara: Seriosly? But Charles was with Ester! And Miriam and Ester are best friends, really?
Neus: Oh Sara no! They were best friends but now, they hate each other.
Sara: Why?
Maria: Well… I don’t know! The only think I know is that I hate Sara and Miriam.
Neus: Me too
Sara: Oh girls! I will meet with James in the afternoon.
Neus: Oh It’s fantastic! We will help you! Don’t worry!
Sara: Thank you.

Henry VIII wives

Name :Anne Boleyn

Fate :Beheaded at the Tower of London on May 19, 1536 after being charged with adultery.

Children :Elizabeth I

Wife Number : 2

Name :Jane Seymour

Fate :On October 24, 1537, Jane died from complications of childbirth.Jane is the only one of Henry's wives to share his grave.

Children : Edward VI

Wife Number :3

Name :Anne of Cleves

Fate :Henry divorced her and Anne received a nice sum of money, an estate, and the title of "King's Sister".

Children : None

Wife Number :4

Name :Catherine of Aragon

Fate :Henry divorced her, having their marriaged anulled. Catherine was banished from the kingdom and lived in seclusion until the time of her death.

Children : Mary I

Wife Number : 1

Name :Catherine Parr
Fate :She outlived Henry.On September 7, Catherine died of complications from the childbirth.

Children :None

Wife Number :6

Name :Catherine Howard
Fate : Beheaded at the Tower of London , charged with treason

Children :None

Wife Number : 5

Tudor London can be described as a _prosperous_ city during the Tudor dynasty. In fact, the population increased from _75000_ inhabitants with Henry VII to _200000_ at the end of the 16th century.
The Tudor monarchs had a royal residence in London called _Whitehall_ and another in the countryside,called _Hampton court_, after _Cardinal Wolsey_ gave it to Henry VIII.These Tudor kings and queens used what are now famous parks , such as _Hyde Park_ or _St. James' Park_, as Royal hunting forests.
Not many Tudor buildings survive today, mostly because of _The Great Fire_ , which happened in _1666_. Besides, , the 13 religious houses in London were _converted for private use_ or _pulled down for building materials_ after the Dissolution of the monasteries, which was _Henry VIII most decisive step agains the power of the church in 1538_.
Apart from that, the theatres were banned from the city by _the city authorities or guilts_ because _plays wasted workmen's time_. Then, they were built in _the southwark_, where now a reconstruction of the _Globe_ can be visited to learn about Tudor theatre.
At that time, London's financial rival was the city of _Amsterdam_, and to be able to compete with it , the _international exchange_ was created in _1566_.
So, all in all, and because of many other events and facts, we can say that both London and England were _powerfull about Tudors theatre_.

THE POEM

Oh, my sweet Romeo,
who makes me feel happy,
I'm very kind
because of your smile.
I don't know how to say that,
but you are my live,
I just want to spend my time
watching your lovely glace
and kissing your face!