“ All world’s a stage,
and all the men and women merely players:
they have their exits and entrances;
and one man in his time plays many parts…”
( As You Like It Act II, Scene 7)
Born in April 1564 in Stratford on Avon
His father - a fairly rich merchant
- 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
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Two Noble Kinsmen
- The Winter's Tale
- 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
- Richard III
- Henry VIII
- Romeo and Juliet
- Coriolanus
- Titus Andronicus
- Timon of Athens
- Julius Caesar
- Macbeth †
- Hamlet
- Troilus and Cressida
- King Lear
- Othello
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Cymbeline
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
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Two Noble Kinsmen
- The Winter's Tale
Histori cal dramas
- 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
- Richard III
- Henry VIII
Tragedies
- Romeo and Juliet
- Coriolanus
- Titus Andronicus
- Timon of Athens
- Julius Caesar
- Macbeth †
- Hamlet
- Troilus and Cressida
- King Lear
- Othello
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Cymbeline
- When and where was Shakespeare born?
- What was his mother?
- What was his father?
4. What kind of education did he get?
5. How old was he when he married Anne Hathaway?
6. What was she?
7. How many children did they have? 8. Why did he leave Stratford?
9. What did he become in London?
10. When did he produce most of his known work?
11. When did the company build the Globe theatre?
12. What plays were performed in that theatre and what happened to that theatre?
13. When did Shakespeare retire and go to live in Stratford?
14. When did he die and where was he buried?
1.William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon on the 23 rd of April, 1564.
2. His mother Marry Arden was a daughter if a farmer
3. His father John Shakespeare was a glove-maker.
4. He got a good classical education at King’s New School (a kind of a grammar school).
5. He was only 18, when he married the 26-year-old Anne Hathaway.
6. She was a daughter of a farmer.
7. They had three children: Susannah, then twins –a son Hamnet and a daughter Judith.
8. We don’t know exactly why he did it.
9. He became an actor, a writer and a poet.
10.He produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613.
11.In 1599 a partnership of company membership built the Globe theatre.
12. Julius Caesar, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth were performed there.
On the 29 th of June 1613 a cannon set fire to the Globe and burned the theatre to the ground.
13.In 1613 he stopped writing and went to live in Stratford
14. Shakespeare died on the 23 rd of April 1616
Marriage to Anne Hathaway in 1582
Anne was 26, he was 18
3 children
The youngest, Hamnet died at the age of 11
went to London at 21
joined a travelling company of actors
worked both as an actor and a writer
- Poor sewer system
- High crime rate
- But …
- 200,000 inhabitants
- the cultural and political heart of England
opened in 1599
His successes had made Shakespeare a rich man
He became one of the principal investors
- Failures and successes
- The affair with the " Dark Lady "
- My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet will I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant that I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Ее глаза на звезды не похожи, Нельзя уста кораллами назвать; Не белоснежна плеч открытых кожа, И черной проволокой вьется прядь.
С дамасской розой, алой или белой, Нельзя сравнить оттенок этих щек,
А тело пахнет так, как пахнет село. Не как фиалки нежной лепесток.
Ты не найдешь в ней совершенных линий, Особенного света на челе, Не знаю я как шествуют богини, Но милая ступает по земле.
И все ж она уступит тем едва ли, Кого в сравненьях пышных оболгали.
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- Return to Stratford in 1610
- Destruction of the Globe Theatre in 1613 (the Great Fire of London)
- In 1616 Shakespeare died on April, 23 (his birthday!)
- Shakespeare wrote 37 plays …
- … and 154 sonnets…
- … and an unknown number of long epic poems
" All‘s well that ends well "