SHAKESPEARE

Shakespeare

PRESENTATION

Index

Living conditions

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development

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lifestyle

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Family

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plays and works

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Quiz

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sources

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...the world's greatest playwright...

Information: who was Shakespeare?

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....a man whose influence is powerfully felt today...

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....an English author of famous plays...

William Shakespeare

Living conditions

Lebensumstände

• 8 childrens, three of them died young,

• from 1576 there was a serious economic crisis of the Shakespeares, emergency sales and debt were the result,

• he lives at the "Elizabethan age"

He was borned

1564

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Wedding

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1582

Life in London

1590

The Globe Theatre was built

1599

Shakespeare died

1616

DEvelopment (Lebenslauf/Werdegang)

Stratford-upon-Avon

in a large half-timbered

as the third child, but 1558 and 1563 died his older sisters

he married Anne Hathaway

Anne was 26, William 18

He probably lived in London from 1590 without his family.

It was built in Bankside.

The owner was a community of shareholders, including William Shakespeare.

»Shakespeare's Globe« was probably the most successful venue of this time.

1610 he returned to Stradford.

Shakespeare died at the age of 52 .

Lifestyle

His parents were wealthy, so he had a good education at a Latin school,

Family

Parents: John Shakespeare and Mary Arden

Familie und Lebensstil

PLAYS AND WORKS

• 38 plays
• 154 sonnets
• 2 longer poems

• Comedies
• Tragedies
• Histories

Comedies (with happy endings)

Tragedies (with sad endings)

Histories (based on English history)

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Theaterstücke und Werke

The plays are divided into the following categories:

Comedies

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Twelfth Night

Love's Labour's Lost

Much Ado About Nothing

The Merchant of Venice

As You Like It

Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Winter's Tale

The Taming of the Shrew

Pericles

The Comedy of Errors

The Tempest

All's Well That Ends Well

Tragedies

Romeo and Juliet

Coriolanus

Hamlet

Julius Caesar

Othello

Macbeth

Antony and Cleopatra

King Lear

Timon of Athens

Troilus and Cressida

Measure for Measure

Cymbeline

Titus Andronicus

Histories

Richard II

Henry IV

Henry V

Richard III

Henry VI

King John

Henry VIII

summary (Zusammenfassung)

In this quiz you can test how well you know about Shakespeare.

Quiz

Sources: Quellen

Pictures

pixabay CCO-Lizenz

Texts

GEOlino > Man >William Shakespeare: The Great Writer

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