Hey group C colleagues. I just wanted to give yall some info of William Shakespeare that I have just came up with. Please either e-mail me at
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William Shakespeare was born in Stratford -On Avon, Warwickshire, on April 23, 1564. There is little his early life. WE know from paris hrecords that he married Ann Hathaway in 1582 when he was 18 and she was 26. They had three children , the eldest of whom died in childhood. There was a 10 year gap after that that we don't know about. He could have became a member of a traveling company of actors.
By 1592 he settled in London andhad earned a reputation as an actor and playwright. Just when theatres were in their infancy. The first theatre called ( The Theatre) was built in 1576. Two more followed as the taste grew: THe Curtain in 1577 and " The Rose in 1587.
Shakespeare probaly adapted to old plays and working in collaboration with others on new plays. In 1594 a new company of actors, The Lord Chamberlain's Men, was formed , and Shakespeare was one of the shareholders and continued to be a member throughout the rest of his life. THe company regrouped in 1603 and was renamed " THe King's Men, with James I as its patron.
SHakespeare and his fellow actors prospered. In 1598 they built thier own theatre. The Globe which broke away from traditional rectangular shape of the inn and its yard ( the early home of traveling bands of actors) Shakespeare described it in Henry V ( the 4th) as "this Wooden O," because it was circular.
After writing some 37 plays ( the exact number is something which scholars argue about) Shakespeare retired to his native Stratford wealthy and respected. He died on his birthday in 1616.
Shakespeare plays were not all published in his lifetime. None of them came to us exactly as he wrote it. In Elizabethian times plays were not regarded as either literature or good reading matter. tHEY WERE WRITTEN AT Speed ( often by more than one writer), performed perhaps ten or 12 times and then regarded
The first playhouse built as such in elizabethian London, constructed in 1576, was The theatre. Its co-founders were John Brayne, an investor, and James Burbage, a carpenter turned into an acto. Like the six or seven "public" ( or outdoor) theatres which followed it over the next thirty years, it was situated outside the city, to avoid conflict with the authorities. They disapproved of the players and playgoing, partly on moral and political grounds, and partly because of the danger of spreading the plague. ( There were two major epidemics during Shakespeare's lifetime, and on each occassion the theatres were closed for lengthy periods.)
(THe Theatre) was a finacial success, and Shakespeare's company performed there until 1598, when a dispute over the lease of the land forced Burbage to take down the building. It wasre-created in Southwark, as (the Globe) , with Shakespeare's and several of his fellow actors as the principal shareholders.
His VerseShakespeare wrote his plays on blank verse: that is unrymed lines consisting of ten syllables, alternately stressed and unstressed. The technical term for thisd form is the iambic pentameter. When Shakespeare first began to write for the stage, it was fashionable to maintain this regular beat from the first line of the play till the last.
Shakespeare conformed at the first and then experimented. Some of his early plays contain whole scenes in ryming couplets in Romeo and Juliet, for example, there is extensive inserts a sonnet into the dialogue.
Shakespeare's play "
Othello"Although narrow in scope, with its intimate demestic setting is widely regarded as the most moving and the most printed of shakespeare's great tragedies. The fall of a proud, dignified man, the murder of a general, loving woman and the unreasoning hatred of a "motiveless" villian all have evoked fear and pity in audiences throughout centuries. Othello possesses a power that is perhaps more immediate and strongly felt for operating on the peronal, human plane. It is highly consentrated, tightly constructed tragedies with no subplots and little humor to releive the tension. He adopted the play from 16 century Italian Dramatist and novelist Giraldi Cinthio's Gli Hecatomicomithi,. He directly developed Iagoe's schemes and Othello's escalating fears.