Shakespeare History Guided notes

Early Life-

Shakespeare was born in ________________, Warwickshire. He was baptized in 1564,

but his actual birth date is unknown. Parents: John Shakespeare and Mary Arden

He was married at 18 to ________________ in 1582

They had three children Susanna (1583) and twins Hamlet and Judith (1585)-

_____________ died when he was only 11

Shakespeare lived in the ____________________ era. Which was from _____________

to _________________

What is the definition of an monarchy?

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The first king ruled in England in the year ______

The Beginning

He wrote the histories first in the 1590's

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and others

These works were heavily influenced by historical texts of the time and also

Shakespeare's competitors: _________________, and ____________

Then he wrote the ________________:

Midsummer's night dream

Much to do about nothing

 As You Like it

Twelfth Night

Most of his histories are written in verse, but Shakespeare threw in __________ at this

time.

When the play house was closed in 1592-3 because of the ____________, Shakespeare

wrote most of his ____________.

During the ____________________Shakespeare composed his problem plays at this

time: All's Well That Ends Well, Tragedies: Macbeth, Othello, and so on...His last plays

included: The Winter's Tale and The Tempest.

The Playhouse

It is not clear which acting troupes his first plays were written for, but after the Plague

1592-3, his plays were performed mostly in "The Theater" in Shoredritich

The built The Globe Theater and it opened in _______ with __________ being one of the

first plays preformed there.

The Globe was constructed for a troupe of actors called _______________ (later to be

called The King's men)

"Totus mundus agit histrionem" which means _________________________