Shakespeare

Shakespeare

1. Renaissance

   • new inventions
     • telescope
     • printing press
   • Cultural and social change
     • better education
   • occuring of many diseases
     • Plague
   • The Elizabethan Age
     • 1533-1603
     • Elizabethan world picture
     • time of
       • conflicts
       • prosperity
       • religion

2. biography

   • Born April 1564
   • Died April 1616
   • baptised April 26th 1564
   • famous playwright
   • Influence on language
     • still using most of his proverbs
     • invented 2035 new words

3. His plays

   • 154 sonnets
   • several longs poems
   • more than 30 plays
     • tragedies
     • historical plays
     • comedies

4. All the world's a stage

   • plays were mass entertainment
     • Shakespeare was highly prolific
     • competition was stiff
     • demand for new material was high
   • theatre
     • inyards
     • new play venues
     • amphitheatre
       • 2500-300 people