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The Life of William Shakespeare.ppt

  • 1. The Life of William Shakespeare Notes

  • 2. Birth  William Shakespeare was born April 23rd, 1564 in Stratford upon Avon.  He was baptized on April 26th.

  • 3. Family  William was the third child, and first son, of John and Mary Shakespeare.  John Shakespeare, was a whittawer, a maker of leather goods. (such as purses, belts and gloves).  John was also a prominent man in Stratford. By 1560, he was one of fourteen members of the town council.

  • 4. Education  Shakespeare attended the Stratford King’s Grammar School.  The school taught boys basic reading and writing.

  • 5. Marriage  On November 28th, 1582 William married Anne Hathaway of Stratford. Anne was 26.

  • 6. Children  William’s first child, Susanna, was baptized in Stratford sometime in May, 1583.  His twins, Hamnet and Judith, were born in February 1585.  Hamnet, William's only son, died in 1596, at just eleven years old.

  • 7. Lost Years (1585-1592)  From the time after his twins are born until 1592, little is known about him. But we know that he moved to Lond
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    William Shakespeare: A Brief Biography

  • 1.  This PowerPoint aims to introduce Form Two students to a unit on three (3) Shakespearean plays by briefly relating details about Shakespeare’s life and works.  At the end of this session, students will be able to quote three (3) of his famous phrases.

  • 2. After the presentation, the teacher will lead a class discussion where students will articulate what they have gleaned from the presentation. Subsequently, they will be separated into groups of four (4); each group will be given a paper with one (1) of the phrases and asked to draw a picture representing it. When the groups have finished, each will show their drawing and the class will guess which phrase has been represented. At the end of the exercise, they will be asked to write their three (3) favourite phrases.

  • 4.  Mystery  Hopeless romantic  Excellent playwright  What else?

  • 5.  Invented 2,035 English Words  May be up to 10,000  Invented numerous common phrases “All of a sudden” “Love is blind” “All that glitters is not gold”

  • 6.  Romeo and Juliet  Hamlet 
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    LEAH: Who was William Shakespeare? We know he looked something like this, but because he lived so long ago we don’t know a huge amount about his life.

    RICKY: But what we do know is that he is one of the greatest writers of plays the world has ever known…

    LEAH: Shakespeare wrote plays about almost everything.

    RICKY: He wrote about funny things.

    EXTRACT A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM – BOTTOM ENTERS + ACTOR FAINTS

    LEAH: He wrote about scary things.

    EXTRACT MACBETH – WITCHES CALL “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!”

    RICKY: And he wrote about very sad things.

    EXTRACT ROMEO AND JULIET – ROMEO: “Death that hath sucked the honey of thy breath and had no power yet upon thy beauty.

    LEAH: But in everything he wrote William Shakespeare explored what it’s like to be a human being, what it’s like to be alive…

    RICKY: And, even now, when we watch his plays, we can learn a lot about the world and about ourselves.

    LEAH: Shakespeare was born in the year 1564 in the town of Stratford upon Avon. All those years ago it was just a small town surrounded by countryside. This is the farm just outside Stratf

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