Презентация на тему William Shakespeare

(exact date unknown) in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England and

died on the 23rd of April 1616.

a successful glover and Mary Arden, the daughter of

a farmer. He was the third child of eight and the eldest surviving son.

just beyond it is the Shakespeare Centre which houses

various Shakespeare exhibits. The garden of the Birthplace is just visible to visitors over the fence, but entry into the Birthplace is charged and is quite expensive. Entry into the Birthplace is through the Shakespeare Centre.

went to school. The school was built in 1428

as the home of a religious guild. The Guild Chapel is the church-like building at the left.

in which Shakespeare studied. The curriculum was mainly based

on Latin, studying such authors as Virgil and Ovid. The curriculum would also have included some Greek, probably Homer.

This plaque on the schoolroom wall states that Shakespeare

studied in this room.

Shakespeare married
the 26-year-old

Anne Hathaway. William and Anne had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith.

career in London as an actor, writer, and part

owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men.

writing, but contemporary allusions and records of performances show

that several of his plays were on the London stage by 1592.

Reconstructed Globe Theatre, London.

1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies

and histories. Next he wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances.

King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello.

Much Ado About Nothing, and All’s Well That Ends

Well.

Britain.
Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing. By William

Blake, c. 1786. Tate Britain.

Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus, and the Ghost of Hamlet's Father. Henry Fuseli, 1780–5. Kunsthaus Zürich.

Many great artists depicted Shakespeare’s characters

William Shakespeare, containing scenes and characters from several of

William Shakespeare's plays.

early in 1616, about the time his daughter Judith

married Thomas Quincey; and on the twenty-third day of April, the same day of the same month in which he is supposed to have been born, he died. Two days later he was buried in the chancel of the Church of the Holy Trinity at Stratford, where, on the now famous grave, are carved the lines:

“Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbeare
To dig the dust enclosed here;
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones.”

Holy Trinity Church, which is alongside the Avon.

lies.

"O, such another sleep, that I

might see But such another man,.. As this I dream'd of".

doubts began to emerge about the authorship of Shakespeare's

works. Alternative candidates proposed include Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, and Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford. Although all alternative candidates are almost universally rejected in academic circles, popular interest in the subject, particularly the Oxfordian theory, has continued into the 21st century.

Shakespeare: read his wonderful works, film his comedies and

tragedies. April 23rd (St George's Day) is the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, and is a time of celebrations in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Among many events is a procession through the town, of bands, civic dignitaries, actors, morris dancers, and the staff and pupils of some local schools.