1. SHAKESPEARE Get to know me!
AKA as
The Bard (Poet)
Of Avon, William, has enormously influenced our modern day language.

2. How has Shakespeare’s Language influenced you?
Shakespeare contributed more phrases to the English language than the Bible or any other work - and many more than any other individual. Here's a small collection of well-known quotations that are associated with Shakespeare.

3. How many of these Shakespearean phrases have you heard?
A fool’s paradise
A sorry sight
All that glitters is not gold
All’s well that ends well
In the twinkling of an eye
Love is blind
As dead as a doornail
As good luck would have it
As pure as the driven snow
Off with his head
Out of the jaw’s of death

4. Or how about . . . The game (jig) is up! Method in my madness
Too much of a good thing
Vanish into thin air
What a piece of work is man
Knock, Knock! Who’s there?
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears
Green eyed monster
Give the Devil his due
I have not slept a wink
Wear my heart upon my sleeve

5. Born April 1564 in Stratford- upon-Avon to a middle class family.
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6. Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon

7. The House on Henley Street, refurbished to its original style.

8. Elizabethan England
Shakespeare lived during the historical time period named after Queen Elizabeth ( ).
often referred to as
Elizabethan England, or Tudor England– Queen E’s last name.

9. Shakespeare: A Renaissance Man in Elizabethan England
The Renaissance ( ): A time when Art, literature, music, science and maritime power advanced like no time before it.
Some Renaissance inventions were:

10. Elizabethan Astrology
New thinking and ideas
Age of Nostradamus
fusion of Christianity, Philosophy, magic and astrology.
Shakespeare makes over 100 references to Astrology. The subject is mentioned in every one of his plays, and Astrology was often critical to the plots, the actions and events surrounding characters.
Fates are hindered by the stars.

11. Shakespeare’s works
Shakespeare's works have a universal and timeless appeal due to his understanding of human nature as well as people's motives. Above all, he had a great tolerance, sympathy, and love for all people, good or evil.

12. Shakespeare’s Career in Theater
1580s moved to London
Joined Lord Chamberlain’s Men--most popular troupe of actors in London.
Partner in several theatrical ventures-- One of the properties of the Globe Theatre.

13. Shakespeare wrote thirty-seven plays categorized as . . .
Comedies, Tragedies, and Histories.

14. Shakespeare also wrote over 150 Sonnets
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”—from sonnet 18

15. SHAKESPEARE’S FAMILY Married Anne Hathaway in 1582
Three children, Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith.
Son Hamnet died at the age of eleven.

16. Shakespeare’s Death April 23, 1616
Gravestone epitaph:
Good friend for Jesus sake forebeare
To digg the dust inclosed in heare; Blese be ye man yt spares theese stones And curst be he yt moves my bones.