SHAKESPEAREGet to know me!

AKA as The Bard (Poet)Of Avon, William,

has enormously influenced our modern day language.

How has Shakespeare’s Language influenced you?

Shakespeare contributed more phrases to the English language than the Bible or any other work - and many more than any other individual. Here's a small collection of well-known quotations that are associated with Shakespeare.

How many of these Shakespearean

phrases have you heard?• A fool’s paradise• A sorry sight • All that glitters is not

gold• All’s well that ends

well• In the twinkling of an

eye• Love is blind

• As dead as a doornail• As good luck would

have it• As pure as the driven

snow• Off with his head• Out of the jaw’s of

death

Or how about . . .

• The game (jig) is up!• Method in my

madness• Too much of a good

thing• Vanish into thin air• What a piece of work

is man • Knock, Knock! Who’s

there?

• Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears

• Green eyed monster• Give the Devil his due• I have not slept a

wink• Wear my heart upon

my sleeve

Born April 1564 in Stratford- upon-Avon to a middle class family.

Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon

The House on Henley Street,

refurbished to its original style.

Elizabethan EnglandShakespeare lived

during the historical time period named after Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603).

often referred to as

Elizabethan England, or Tudor England– Queen E’s last name.

Shakespeare: A Renaissance Man in Elizabethan England

• The Renaissance (1500-1660): A time when Art, literature, music, science and maritime power advanced like no time before it.

• Some Renaissance inventions were:

Elizabethan Astrology

• New thinking and ideas • Age of Nostradamus • fusion of Christianity, Philosophy, magic and

astrology. • Shakespeare makes over 100 references to

Astrology. The subject is mentioned in every one of his plays, and Astrology was often critical to the plots, the actions and events surrounding characters.

• Fates are hindered by the stars.

Shakespeare’s works

• Shakespeare's works have a universal and timeless appeal due to his understanding of human nature as well as people's motives. Above all, he had a great tolerance, sympathy, and love for all people, good or evil.

Shakespeare’s Career in Theater

• 1580s moved to London

• Joined Lord Chamberlain’s Men--most popular troupe of actors in London.

• Partner in several theatrical ventures-- One of the properties of the Globe Theatre.

Shakespeare wrote thirty-seven plays categorized as . . .

Comedies, Tragedies, and Histories.

Shakespeare also wrote over Shakespeare also wrote over 150 Sonnets150 Sonnets

““Shall I Shall I compare compare thee to a thee to a summer’s summer’s day?”—day?”—from from sonnet 18sonnet 18

SHAKESPEARE’S FAMILY

• Married Anne Hathaway in 1582

• Three children, Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith.

• Son Hamnet died at the age of eleven.

Shakespeare’s Death April 23, 1616

Gravestone epitaph:

Good friend for Jesus sake forebeare

To digg the dust inclosed in heare; Blese be ye man yt spares theese stones And curst be he yt moves my bones.