Close look at Shakespear the Playwright

Shakespeare Janet Jensen Shakespeare’s Life • Birth date April, 1563 • • • • • • in Stratford, England John Shakespeare, Leather and City gov. Mary Arden Grammar school 1582 Ann Hathaway 1592-1622 1613-Stratford Shakespeare’s Theatre • Plague • Many deaths • Plays were written to please royalty • Globe, The Theatre • No lights. No women, Lower class audiences The History of the Play • Romeo and Juliet was adapted from a poem written two hundred years before Shakespeare came on the scene. There is also a legend that there were two young people that indeed ran away together, were hunted down, and did kill themselves before they were found. • The Poem has more substantial evidence. Pictures from Shakespeare Shakespearean Dress Romeo and Juliet Project Romeo and Juliet Tragedy Young love Prejudice Romeo Impatient Non-Commital Rebel Juliet Level-headed Trustworthy Commited Friar Lawrence Emotional Power-hungry Responsible Shakespeare’s Contribution to the Language • • • • • He invented 32,000 words. We use about 5,000 today. He invented: hot blooded, He invented phrases: Leapfrog is an example of a compound word invented by Shakespeare.