JCH8.4 Notes

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Name and introduce the writer.

Talk about how he started work.

How he became famous.

Three examples of his plays.

Other things he wrote.

Later years and death.

Example - William Shakespeare

Wlliam Shakespeare was born in Stratford on Avon, in 1564. When he was eighteen he married Anne Hathaway who was eight years older than him. Shakespeare went to London to seek his fortune in his twenties and became an actor and writer of plays with the theatre group called The King’s Men. The King’s Men performed in The Globe theatre. Shakespeare’s plays became so famous that several were performed before Queen Elizabeth I. His famous plays included tragedies such as Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet and MacBeth. He wrote comedies, which are plays with happy endings, such as Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream. He also wrote Historical plays including Julio Cesar. Shakespeare was also a poet and wrote more than 50 Sonnets, which are 14 line poems. Shakespeare returned to Stratford on Avon in 1613 and died three years later in 1616