William Shakespeare by Irene La Malfa https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5 en-us 2020-03-21 16:30:39 UTC 2023-05-08 20:00:05 UTC hello@padlet.com irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469087424 William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. 

]]> 2020-03-21 17:15:33 UTC https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469087424 irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469091396 He was born around April 23, 1564, into an England ruled by Queen Elizabeth I and after Henry VIII’s break with the Catholic Church was well established. This was a time of growing wealth and confidence and a period of creativity and novelty in art, literature and social mores.]]> 2020-03-21 17:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469091396 irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469726250 He was born and grew up in the small market town of Stratford-upon-Avon in south-central England.]]> 2020-03-22 15:15:22 UTC https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469726250 irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469731318 William went to the local grammar school, where he learnt Latin and read the classic Greek and Roman writers who along with writers of the Italian Renaissance were to provide the story-lines for many of his plays. ]]> 2020-03-22 15:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469731318 Shakespeare's school irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469732849 2020-03-22 15:22:11 UTC https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469732849 irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469736960 2020-03-22 15:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469736960 irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469738081 At eighteen his teenage romance with an older woman, the 26 year-old Anne Hathaway, who was pregnant at the time, led to the equivalent of a shotgun wedding: to avoid scandal it was important for the wedding to take place before signs of the pregnancy became too obvious.]]> 2020-03-22 15:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469738081 irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469741810 Their first daughter, Susanne, was born just six months after their hasty marriage. Two years later Anne gave birth to twins, Judith and Hamnet, who died when he was just eleven.]]> 2020-03-22 15:31:17 UTC https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469741810 Who was Anne Hathaway? irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469745007 Anne and her family were the tenants of a farmhouse in Shottery. Anne’s father was a  well-respected member of the Shottery community. Upon his death he left Anne, who was also known as Agnes, a small sum of money with which she could marry. ]]> 2020-03-22 15:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469745007 irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469772225 In 1584 Shakespeare left Stratford, probably because he had been caught deer-hunting, and he moved to London , where he first experienced the playhouse: he entered in an acting company as an actor, but thanks to his intelligence he stood out as a playwright.]]> 2020-03-22 16:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469772225 The plague irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469775211 In 1593 the London theatres were closed because of the plague and Shakespeare needed the support of a private patron. He received it from a young nobleman,the Earl of Southampton, to whom he dedicated his poems. ]]> 2020-03-22 16:04:19 UTC https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469775211 irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469778975 When theatres re-opened, he and a group of fellow actors began to work as a company under the name of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, so called because their patron was Lord Chamberlain, an important person at Queen Elizabeth's court, which quickly became the leading theatrical company in London.]]> 2020-03-22 16:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469778975 irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469785190 In 1603, shortly after the ascension to the throne of James I following the death of Elizabeth, the company received a royal patent and changed their name to the King’s Men. A royal patent was a licence to perform plays, which limited the number of companies and allowed greater control over the content of the performances.]]> 2020-03-22 16:13:59 UTC https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469785190 The Globe irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469786319  In 1599 several members of the theatre company, including it would seem Shakespeare, formed a company to build a new theatre on the south bank of the Thames, which was called The Globe. This became the preferred venue for Shakespeare’s plays and its popularity added to Shakespeare’s growing wealth.]]> 2020-03-22 16:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469786319 irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469799588 During his career, he put 10 comedies onto stage, varying from farce to romance. The great tragedies were published between 1595 and 1605. ]]> 2020-03-22 16:27:55 UTC https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469799588 irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469801553 The last part of his life was spent in Stratford. He died in 1616, when he was 52 years old , and he was buried in the local church. Seven years after his death, his friends published the "First Folio", an edition of 36 of his plays in one volume.]]> 2020-03-22 16:29:48 UTC https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469801553 Shakespeare the writer irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469803825 Shakespeare wrote 37 plays (though some experts think it may have been more). He wrote three different types of plays:
Histories - about the lives of kings and famous figures from history
Comedies - which end with a marriage
Tragedies - which end with the death of the main character

Shakespeare also wrote plenty of poetry and in 1609 published a book of 154 sonnets.
]]> 2020-03-22 16:31:55 UTC https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469803825 Words he invented irenelamalfa04 https://padlet.com/irenelamalfa04/krimh46axsu5/wish/469808168 He had an incredible influence on the English language and invented hundreds of words, such as:
  • amazement
  • bedroom
  • champion
  • dawn
  • eyeball
  • fashionable
  • gossip
  • unreal



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