William Shakespeare His Life, London, Romeo and Juliet.
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William ShakespeareHis Life, London, Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare’s Birth/Early Life• Baptized 4/26/1564• No official B-day• Stratford-Upon-Avon• One of eight children• Working class family• Attended local
grammar school; no university
• Married Anne Hathaway in 1582
Married & Professional Life• Susanna born in 1583• Twins Hamnet and
Judith born in 1585• 1585-92 “Lost Years”• 1590-1592 his first
plays are performed• Henry VI, Richard
III, The Comedy of Errors
Shakespeare: Actor and Playwright
• Theaters close in 1593 because of the plague.
• 1594 he becomes a shareholder in Lord Chamberlain’s Men
• 1599 construction of the Globe Theater
• Groundlings, Theater setup
Rulers of England 1558-1603
Queen Elizabeth I
King of England 1603-1625
King James I
In The Reign of King James I• Lord Chamberlain’s
Men becomes The King’s Men
• Plays concerning the power of court
• Retires by 1612 to Stratford-Upon-Avon
• Life during retirement is unknown
The Death of Shakespeare• Died on April 23, 1616• Wrote 38 plays, 154
sonnets, and two narrative poems
• First Folio published in 1623; most plays
• Today--$25,000 per week in royalties just on Othello alone
Information about Romeo and Juliet
• Approximate 1st performance date: 1594-95• Not printed until 1597
• Direct source for Shakespeare’s R&J is Arthur Brooke’s Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562)• Based on a prose piece from Pierre Boistuau (1559)• Based on a version from an Italian Bandello (1554)• Based on a version from Luigi da Porto (1525)• Based on a version from Masuccio Salernitano (1476)
• Romeo and Juliet is filled with language games• Paradox: Statement or situation that seems to be a
contradiction but reveals the truth• Oxymoron: A figure of speech in which apparently
contradictory terms are combined to produce an epigrammatic (a neat, witty, often paradoxical remark)effect
• Rhyming Tricks• Verbal Echoings• Puns: Play on the multiple meanings of a word or on
two words that sound alike but have different meanings.
• Try to catch these “games” Shakespeare plays