William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

1. 26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616

2. Plays

   • Early Plays
     • Primarily comedies and histories
   • Middle Phrase Plays
     • Mainly tragedies
       • Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth
   • Last Phrase Plays
     • Tragicomedies/asromances
     • Collaborated with other playwrights

3. Other Creations

   • Writing
     • Poems
       • 2 long narrative poems

4. Performances

   • Theatres
     • 2 main
       • Blackfriars
       • The Globe
         • made from the timbers of a previous theatre, "The Theatre" which Shakespeare and some other colleagues moved)
         • Built 1599
         • destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613.
           • A modern reconstruction of the Globe, named "Shakespeare's Globe", opened in 1997
         • 3 story
         • hold 3000 spectators
         • polygon of 20 sides

5. Queen Elizabeth I ruled

6. Audience

   • Poor
     • Most of the poorer audience members, referred to as groundlings, would pay one penny to stand in front of the stage
   • Richer
     • richer people would sit in the covered galleries, paying as much as half a crown each for their seats.