Shakespeare and Company

Intro : Shakespeare is a very important figure in the western culture because he stills remain a huge influence into the artists’ works today. His plays are translated in a lot of languages and are regularly played everywhere all around the world. He is one of the only playwrights who have written both comedies and tragedies. Shakespeare wrote 37 plays between 1580 and 1613. We can also mesure his influence on the anglo-saxon culture, since we notice the large amount of references which are done

Shakespeare Shakespeare's reputation as dramatist and poet actor is unique and he is considered by many to be the greatest playwright of all time, although many of the facts of his life remain mysterious. William Shakespeare was born in England Stratford-upon-Avon on 23 April 1564. His father was a glovemaker and wool merchant and his mother, Mary Arden, the daughter of a well-to-do local landowner. Shakespeare was educated in Stratford's grammar school. In 1582 at 18 years of age, Shakespeare

Work on Shakespeare 1) A short biography of Shakespeare [pic] William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, in England in 1564. He was the third of seven children born to John and Mary Arden Shakespeare.     Shakespeare's father was a tanner and glove maker. He was also a fairly prominent political figure, being an alderman of Stratford for years. He died in 1601, leaving little land to William. Not much is known of Mary Shakespeare, except that she

* William Shakespeare His life + Work Born 23 April 1564.in Stratford upon-Avon. Into a well to do family but they were illiterate. He died in 1616. His father John Shakespeare was a prosperous merchant – Mayor of Stratford. His Mother : Mary Arden she owned land. William is the eldest of a family of 5 children. At the age of 13 William was apprenticed to a butcher. He married at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway. He have three children between 1583-1585 they have twice and an another boy

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S BIOGRAPHY Despite all of his several plays’s massive success, William Shakespeare’s life isn’t very well known. Being the third of eight (and the eldest son that had survived) of John Shakespeare, a succesful glover and alderman, and Mary Alden, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer, he was baptised in the 26th of April of 1564 (since we do not have any record of when he was born, we use his baptism date instead, however, his birthday traditionally is observed on

Elizabethan theater http://www.globe-theatre.org.uk/globe-theatre-built.htm When and where was the original globe theater built? The original globe theater was built in London specifically on the South bank of the river Thames in Southwarks. It was built in the years 1599. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe_Theatre How many spectators could watch a play there? There was approximately one hundred feet in diameter that could house up to three thousand spectators.

| Auteur | William Shakespeare | Genre | tragédie | Version originale | Titre original | Romeo and Juliet | Langue originale | anglais | Pays d'origine | Angleterre | Date de parution originale | 1597 | Date de la 1rereprésentation | inconnue | Lieu de la 1rereprésentation | inconnu | Version française | Roméo et Juliette (Romeo and Juliet) est une tragédie de William Shakespeare. Écrite vers le début de

Le Conte d'hiver Le Conte d'hiver (The Winter's Tale) est une tragicomédie de William Shakespeare. Probablement écrite en 1610 ou 1611, cette pièce est habituellement classée dans les romances tardives de Shakespeare. Quelques critiques la considèrent comme une comédie à problème en raison de la tension dramatique des trois premiers actes, alors que les deux derniers tournent à la comédie et se terminent sur un heureux dénouement. Histoire Léonte, roi de Sicile et Polixène, roi de Bohème ont

from William Shakespeare Hamlet is sane or insane ? Hamlet is really crazy or actIing crazy? Bibliography: Hamlet from Shakespeare Garnier Flammarion Biographie: Shakespeare is a british man author from XVI century. He is born in April 1564 in Stratfor-on-avon which is a market town from Warwickshire located to north-west of London. We think the more often that Shakespeare's parents were members of Anglican Protestantism. Some historians maintain Shakespeare and his family

Devrient dans le rôle de Lear, probablement dans la version de Jean-François Ducis Auteur Genre Nb. d'actes Dates d'écriture Sources William Shakespeare Tragédie Cinq actes (supposées) 1603-1606 Historia regum Britanniae de Geoffroy de Monmouth Version originale Titre original King Lear The True Chronicle of the History of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters (1608) The Tragedy of King Lear (1623) Anglais moderne naissant Royaume d’Angleterre 26 décembre 1606 Palais de Whitehall