Survey
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
History of theatre wikipedia , lookup
Theatre of France wikipedia , lookup
Augustan drama wikipedia , lookup
Medieval theatre wikipedia , lookup
English Renaissance theatre wikipedia , lookup
Shakespeare's handwriting wikipedia , lookup
Colorado Shakespeare Festival wikipedia , lookup
Shakespeare A Man And His Time Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • Shakespeare and Elizabeth Shakespeare and Stratford Shakespeare’s London Shakespeare’s Theatre (Part I) Shakespeare’s Theatre (Part II) The Globe Theatre Shakespeare’s Plays (Part I) Shakespeare’s Plays (Part II) Shakespeare’s Performances (Part I) Shakespeare’s Performances (Part II) Shakespeare’s End After Shakespeare Modern Shakespeare Shakespeare and Elizabeth • He was born in 1564, around the time when Elizabeth I (the first) came to the throne. • He was brought up in Stratford-Upon-Avon. His family were not particularly rich and he probably went to the local free grammar school. Back To Contents Shakespeare’s Stratford • Stratford was a pretty town, but it wouldn’t have been as big as it was today. • In Stratford Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway (not the actress!), and they had a house. • Anne Hathaway and their children stayed in Stratford while Shakespeare went to London to write and Back To Contents perform in plays. Shakespeare’s London • Shakespeare went to London in about 1590. • London in Shakespeare’s time was a nasty place! • In 1595, there were food riots in London (everyone fighting for food) because there was not enough food for everyone. • In1594 the plague killed over 5% of London’s population – not nice! Back To Contents Shakespeare’s Theatre • Shakespeare went to London to become an actor and a playwright. • It wasn’t only rich people that went to the theatre – poor people stood in the stalls. The Queen/King often went to the theatre and sat right at the top. • Theatres did not have roofs so if it rained, the people standing in the middle got wet! Back To Contents Shakespeare’s Theatre • In 1597, after the theatres reopened after the plague, Shakespeare and his men took over the Globe Theatre. • In 1603, James I became King and Shakespeare and his actors became “The King’s Men” – they performed plays to the King – a great honour! Back To Contents The Globe Theatre Back To Contents Shakespeare’s Plays • Shakespeare wrote plays for the theatre. He did not write them in a fancy book but instead there were scripts. • Each script had to be hand-written – there were no computers in Shakespeare’s time! • Shakespeare wrote about 2 plays a year… and directed the plays… and acted in the plays… he was a very busy man! Back To Contents Shakespeare’s Plays • Shakespeare wrote three types of plays: • Comedies – have a happy ending, usually ending with a marriage, e.g. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. • Histories – are about Kings and Queens, e.g. Richard III. • Tragedies – have lots of sadness and the main person dies in the end, e.g. Macbeth. Back To Contents Shakespeare’s Performances • It was quite common for people to talk and shout during a performance in Shakespeare’s time. • Girls were not actors in this time and so female parts were played by young boys! Maybe that’s why there aren’t very many female parts in Shakespeare’s plays! • Theatres didn’t have many props, costumes or sound effects, and so the actors and the playwright had to make the lines come to life! Back To Contents Shakespeare’s Performances • The group of actors would not do a ‘run’ of the same plays; instead, they would rehearse lots of plays and then perform each in the afternoons and evenings - how did they remember all those lines? • “The King’s Men” once performed 13 different plays in a row! Back To Contents Shakespeare’s End • By the time Shakespeare died, he had written 38 plays (and maybe more…) • Some of his plays were very popular and others weren’t performed very much. • He had been a successful playwright, actor, director and poet. • He died aged 52 in 1616. Back To Contents After Shakespeare • Shakespeare’s plays were all written out (yes, by hand!) and published in something called the First Folio in 1623. Only 36 of his plays were put in. • It became fashionable to have the plays in rich people’s libraries. • Lots of directors started to put on Shakespeare’s plays… • …And Shakespeare-mania began! Back To Contents Modern Shakespeare • Films like Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo and Juliet” have made Shakespeare fashionable again. • Also, some films base their stories on Shakespeare plays – “10 Things I Hate About You” is based on “The Taming Of The Shrew”. • Even “The Lion King” is based on a Shakespeare play! Back To Contents