and Elizabethan England

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William Shakespeare

• and Elizabethan England

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Shakespeares Birthplace

• April 23, 1564
• Stratford-upon-Avon
• Third of eight children
• John and Mary Shakespeare
• Father was a tanner

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• 1571 age 7 started school King Edward VI School

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• November 27, 1582 (age 18) marries Anne Hathaway
  (age 26)

• May 26, 1583 Susanna born (5 months after
  wedding)

• 1585 twins Judith and Hamnet Hamnet dies age 11

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According to legendCaught poaching deer
Left Stratford upon Avon
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Arrived in London around 1588
By 1592, successful as actor and playwright
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Acting Companies

• The Chamberlains Men During reign of Elizabeth
  I Before 1603

• The Kings Men During reign of
  James I After 1603

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• 1597 Buys New Place in Stratford

• Retires in 1610

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Died April 23, 1616 in Stratford
He left his wife the second best bed in his will
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Buried in Stratfords Church of the Holy
Trinity
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Comedies
histories
Tragedies
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Selected Plays(Plays studied at Tracy High)

• 1594-1595 Romeo and Juliet
• 1595-1596 A Midsummer Nights Dream
• 1599-1600 Julius Caesar
• 1600-1601 Hamlet
• 1605-1606 King Lear
• 1605-1606 Macbeth
• 1611-1612 The Tempest

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The Globe Theater
1599-1613
1614-1642
1994-Present
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The Globe Theater

• 2000 people in gallery
• Two pence (2 pennies)

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• 1000 people
• Groundlings
• Stinkards
• 1 penny

The Yard
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• Rebuilt by 1614
• Closed by Puritans 1642

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The New Globe

• August 1994
• 200 yards from original site
• 1600 person capacity

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The Virgin Queen Elizabeth I

• 1533-1603
• Henry VIII
• 6 wives
• No male heirs
• Anne Boleyn
• Beheaded for infidelity in 1536
• Really because she miscarried a male baby

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The Virgin Queen Elizabeth I

• Never married
• advantages to being a single queen! ?

• Expected to marry and rule with husband
• Subordinate role

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The Virgin Queen Elizabeth I

• Half-sister Mary imprisoned her in Tower of
  London to avoid competition for crown
• Died in 1558 at age 40
• Earl of Essex
• Executed 1601
• Cousin Mary Queen of Scots
• Legitimate claim to throne
• Executed in 1587

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Elizabethan Fashions
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Elizabethan Womens Fashions

• Corset
• Ruff

• Bumroll

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Elizabethan Mens Fashions

• Doublet

• Codpiece

• Hose

• Slops

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The Elizabethan Masque

• Costumes mythological creatures popular
  literary characters
• Entertainment singing, plays, dancing,
  poetry
• Similar to opera audience participation

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Courtly Love
Rules for Love

• Idealized women
• Delightful disease physical and mental
  affliction
• Symptoms of Love pale sighing wont
  eat suffering depression jealousy

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Courtly Love

• Not between husband and wife Reality was
  unpleasant and not popular

• Great deeds for the woman Such as killing a
  dragon ?

• Adultery idealized Part of the romance was
  that it was forbidden

• Actual relationships were very different

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William Shakespeare
Authorship?

• Sir Francis Bacon?
• Earl of Southampton?
• Many others