The World Of ShakespeareHistorical Context

Biographical Information

• Born -1564• Died -1616• In England• Married – Anne Hathaway (Not the Actress)• 3 Children –Susanna and Twins Judith and

Hamnet• After 4 years of Marriage- he left his family

and moved to London to seek a better career

Elizabethan England

• 1530’s – early 1600’s• Named because -England was under the rule

of Queen Elizabeth I• Joined –The Lord Chamberlain’s Men• He became an- Actor• Eventually he Wrote and Acted in his own

plays• Which were performed at The Globe Theater

Shakespeare’s Plays and his Use of Language

• Not a single original Shakespearean manuscript of Shakespeare’s plays have survived

• Because Many of them were written hastily for immediate stage performance

• Many of his plots were Borrowed