◦ one penny - to stand in yard around stage (these were called the groundlings) ◦ two pennies - to sit in 2nd and 3rd floor galleries ◦ three pennies - to sit in the first floor galleries
Shakespeare: A Brief Biography

He was buried in Stratford; the inscription on his tombstone reads. . .
Shakespeare: A Brief Biography
“Good Friend, for Jesus’ sake, forbear To dig the dust enclosed here; Blest be the man that spares these stones And curst be he that moves my bones.”
The Globe Theater

He wrote his plays to be performed in the Globe Theater. The only account we have of the Globe is from a diary of a Swiss doctor who visited London and crossed the Thames River to see a play in a theater with a thatched roof.
The Globe Theater
It was built in 1599 and burned down 14 years later in 1613. It was an 8 sided building with a central yard.

The Globe Theater

Spectators’ price of admissions was


Born in April 1564 at Stratford-on-Avon John Shakespeare (father)
◦ tanner, glover, dealer in grain ◦ town official (alderman, and later mayor)

Mary (mother)
The Globe Theater

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Shakespearian Drama
Tragedy: A drama that ends in catastrophe—most often death—for the main character and often for several other important characters as well Tragic Hero: The main character, someone who is nobly born and has great influence in his or her society. This character has weakness or errors in judgment (Tragic Flaws) that lead to his or her downfall. Fate may play a role in the course that events take.
The Globe Theater

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Stage
◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ 1/3 of yard was filled with 6ft high platform no curtain no artificial lighting back wall had at least two doors balcony was used for hilltops, walls of cities, or second story scenes. trapdoors were used to raise or lower actors and props.
Shakespeare: A Brief Biography

Author of 37 plays and 154 sonnets Robert Greene, a critic, attacked Shakespeare, a mere actor, for writing plays. He acted before Queen Elizabeth in 1594. The exact year in which William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet is unknown, but it is definitely one of his earlier works, and one of only two tragedies written in the period from 1590 to 1595
◦ daughter of Robert Arden, a prosperous gentleman-farmer.
Shakespeare: A Brief Biography
Attended the Stratford Grammar School Did not go to Oxford or Cambridge
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Shakespeare: A Brief Biography

Shakespeare: A Brief Biography
Married Anne Hathaway in 1582 Three children born: Susanna, Judith, and Hamnet

Shakespeare: A Brief Biography

By 1590, he was an actor and playwright Leader of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men and the King’s Men died April 23, 1616