William Shakespeare

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a brief discription of william shakespeareas life
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William Shakespeare
  1. 26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616
    1. Plays
      1. Early Plays
        1. Primarily comedies and histories
        2. Middle Phrase Plays
          1. Mainly tragedies
            1. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth
          2. Last Phrase Plays
            1. Tragicomedies/asromances
              1. Collaborated with other playwrights
            2. Other Creations
              1. Writing
                1. Poems
                  1. 2 long narrative poems
              2. Performances
                1. Theatres
                  1. 2 main
                    1. Blackfriars
                      1. The Globe
                        1. made from the timbers of a previous theatre, "The Theatre" which Shakespeare and some other colleagues moved)
                          1. Built 1599
                            1. destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613.
                              1. A modern reconstruction of the Globe, named "Shakespeare's Globe", opened in 1997
                              2. 3 story
                                1. hold 3000 spectators
                                  1. polygon of 20 sides
                            2. Queen Elizabeth I ruled
                              1. Audience
                                1. Poor
                                  1. Most of the poorer audience members, referred to as groundlings, would pay one penny to stand in front of the stage
                                  2. Richer
                                    1. richer people would sit in the covered galleries, paying as much as half a crown each for their seats.
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