Shakespeare Video Notes

NOtes On Shakespeare Video


- Greatest writer ever

- Very Perverse Jokes

- Born 1564 to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden

- Lived in Stratford upon Avon where he went to school until the age 13

- Married Anne Hathaway in 1582

- Had 3 children: Sussana, Hamlet and Judith

- Moved to London in 1591 at the age of 27

- He started his writing carrer with 37 plays and 154 sonnets

- He worked during the Ezabithien Era; named after queen Elizabeth(time she ruled)

- the queen would shut down the play houses and theatres because of diseases

- He was believed to be one of the translators of the psalms for King James

- Public enjoyed themselves by watching people getting executed and hanging their heads on poles around town

- No good sanitation, so the bathroom was the river and the woods

- The queen really liked shakespeare and asked him to write plays about specific topics or suggested characters

- Back then, theatres were in poor neighborhoods so they were sorrounded by pubs and the red light district

- Shakespeare had many mistresses

- Shakespeare retired as a rich and famous man

- all of the actors during his time were men, so even Juliet was a man

- His plays were divided into three categories: comedies, tragedies and histories

- Histories: stories about the royal family in England

- Comedies: known for having happy endings

- Tragedies: Like Julius Caesar, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet; stories with non happy endings that are not about the english monarchy