William Shakespeare

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• William Shakespeare
• by
• Stephanie
• Spencer

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Shakespeares Beginnings

• Born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon in England
• April 23rd or 26th????
• Shakspere, Shaksper, Shaxper, and Shake-speare
• Parents John Shakespeare (glover, alderman,
  money-lender) Mary Arden (gentry)

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• Shakespeares Education
• -Petty School
• -King Edward VI Grammar School
• Learned how to write and speak Latin
• Studied classical writers Left school
  at fourteen

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Home Front of the Bard

• Married Anne Hathaway
• Unusual Pairing
• Gave birth to Susanna six months after the
  marriage
• Two years later twins were born (Hamnet and
  Judith)
• Hamnet died at age 11

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The Lost Years

• 1585-1592
• No record
• Several theories
• -Caught poaching a deer fled to avoid
  prosecution
• -Schoolmaster

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The Legend Begins

• 1592 Playwright in London
• 1594 Actor, writer and part owner of a a
  playing company called Lord Chamberlains Men

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The Kings Men The Globe Theater

• They built the Globe Theater
• Performed for Elizabeth I
• James I titled them the Kings Men
• Richard Burbage became the principal actor
• 20 years he produced 2 plays per year

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The Financial Advances of Shakespeare

• Fathers Death Inheritance
• Financial profit of the
  theater
• New Place
• Land

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• Works of Shakespeare
• Plays
• (Tragedies, Comedies, Histories)
• Poems
• Sonnets - 154

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Conspiracy Theories

• Catholic in Hiding
• Sonnets were written to a woman and a man
• Credited with work he did not write

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Death of a
Legend

• 1611 Disengaged from the theater
• Lived in Stratford until his death in 1616
• Rumored to have died from a fever from a drinking
  binge
• Died on his birthday
• Buried at Holy Trinity Church
• No living descendants

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Shakespeares Claim to Fame

• Most known of his time
• Over 420 Feature Length Films
• Most Quoted Writer
• Greatest writer of the English language
• Englands national poet
• Translated in all of the major languages
• Continually performed throughout the world

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Apple Pecan Bread

• ½ cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 Tbs. Milk
• 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1 cup chopped apples
• ½ cup chopped pecans

• Preheat oven to 350 Degrees.
• Grease a 9 x 5 loaf pan
• Cream butter and sugar.
• Beat in eggs, milk, vanilla.
• Add dry ingredients and stir until well blended.
• Fold in apples and nuts.
• Pour into pan.
• Bake for one hour.
• Remove , let it cool, and wrap.

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• He was not of an age, but for all time!-Ben
  Jonson

"To be, or not to be that is the question.."
"We have seen better days."
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
"This above all to thine own self be true."
"Beware the ides of March.
"Et tu, Brute!"
The course of true love never did run smooth."