By Logan Caraballo
Personal life
personal
professional
 William Shakespeare
 Moved to England in
was born in 1564 on April
23rd
 Lived in Stratford “upon
Avon”
 Married Anne Hathaway
at the age of 18 (she was
26)
1952 to begin working
with theaters
 Later joined Large
theater troupe, The
chamberlains men
 Wrote 38 plays during
career.
Education &
family life
William Shakespeare attended
the Stratford grammar school
from dawn to dusk, working
hard, long hours of studying.
Born under Mary Arden and
John Shakespeare
Married Anne Hathaway in
1582
First child – daughter - born in
1583 (Susanna)
Twins born (Hamnet & Judith
born) 1585
 Shakespeare moved to
England in 1592 to begin
work with local theaters.
 Shakespeare's first play
“Henry VI part 2”
produced.
 Shakespeare joins
chamberlains men in
1594, which later became
the “Kings men” but
converted back to the
original name.
 Hamnet dies Due to the
black plague on Oct 20th
1596 at age 11
 The play “Hamlet”
written in 1599 dedicated
to sons death.
William Shakespeare and the theater
 Joined in 1596
 Performed mainly at, “The Theatre,” in Shoreditch
before construction of the globe theater
 Henry VI, part 2 first Shakespeare play they
performed.
 Most of Shakespeare's
plays were written
for the Chamberlains
men.
Globe Theater
Other Stages
 Located in Southward
 When plays were banned
 Made partly from The
from London in 1596,
Shakespeare and his
troupe moved to Swan
Theater at Bankside
 Also performed at, “The
Curtain” and “The
Blackfriars”
dismantled pieces of “The
Theater”
 Finished in 1599
 Burned down in 1613 by
“the great fire of London”
 Successfully rebuilt in 1614
 Henry VI part 2 (First play produced)
 Julius Caesar (first to be performed at globe theater
 The Tempest (last play Shakespeare wrote alone)
 Hamlet (written in dedication of his son, Hamnet)
List of all plays here
 Shakespeare wrote 154
 Excerpt from sonnet 18
sonnets throughout the
extent of his life. All
seemingly interlocked,
excluding his final 3.
 Done during low period
in career
“Shall I compare thee to a
summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and
more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the
darling buds of May…”
“The greatest tragedy ever written”
Romeo and Juliet
lie dead (left)
It is a common
misconception that
“Romeo and Juliet”
was a romance, but is
in fact, a tragedy:
Includes an
extraordinary hero
(Romeo)
the hero dies, and the
heroes death served a
large purpose. These
are all specifications
of a tragedy
 Romeo and Juliet takes place in Verona Italy around
the early 1300’s. It is here where Montague and Capulet
families are engaged in a constant feud. The Daughter
(Juliet) of lord and lady Capulet, and the son (Romeo)
of lord and lady Montague become star crossed lovers
without their parents knowing. Through a tragic, and
touching chain of events, the two (after a mistaken
death) ensue their own deaths to remain together.
Specs
Written 1594
First performed 1595
Performed by
Chamberlains Men at
the globe theater
One of the worlds
best known plays to
this day
Movie produced in
1968
 Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine, New Folger
Library Shakespeare edition, 2004.
 Shakespeare's Sonnets. Ed. Stephen Booth. rpt. Yale, 2000.
 Shakespeare's Sonnets. Ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones. Arden Shakespeare, 1997
 Helen Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Harvard, 1997.
 S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life (Oxford,
1977)
 http://www.History-timelines.org. “William Shakespeare timeline.” William
Shakespeare Timeline 1564-1616 (2010): 1. 4/15/2013 http://www.historytimelines.org.uk/people-timelines/08-william-shakespeare-timeline.htm.
All pictures taken from Romeo and Juliet wikipedia
.