2. English poet and playwright. Was born on 26 April 1564 Third child of 8 and the eldest surviving one, died on 23 april 1616 His Life
3. Was the son of John Shakespeare, a successful glover and alderman and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer. His Life
4. Most biographers agree that Shakespeare was probably educated at the King's New School in Stratford, Grammar schools varied during the Elizabethan era, but the curriculum was dictated by law throughout England His Life
5. Mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the 16th century. Wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. He wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. His Plays
6. Shakespeare lived most of his life during the Elizabethan Age. This is when Queen Elizabeth I was ruling England. During Shakespeare's life, England had three big epidemics of the plague. This is when lots of people got very sick and died. The plague was like a flu which was very easy to catch. The first plague went around from 1592-1594. This was when Shakespeare was about 30 years old and when he was writing poems and performing plays. England during His time
7. The second plague happened when Shakespeare was old, going from 1603 to 1604. The final plague was 7 years after Shakespeare died. The plague in England was really bad because England had narrow, dirty streets and no clean water. They also had lots of rubbish and rats on the road. In Elizabethan times, London was a very rich city. England during His time
8. Rooster-fighting, beer baiting and watched beatings and executions. People also had bets and played with cards, chess pieces and dice. A popular sport played was tennis, but people didn't have racquets so they had to use their hands to hit the ball. Other sports were bowls, badminton, archery, billiards, hunting, riding and wrestling. Another form of entertainment important to Shakespeare was going to the theatre and watching people perform a play. Entertainment
9. In Shakespeare's time, England had three types of money. 12 pence made a shilling 20 shillings made a pound. Items in England could be bought for a very cheap price. For example 7 shillings would buy you gloves and one or two pence would get you a drink. Currency
10. There were enough jobs to choose from for the people who lived in Elizabethan England. There were booksellers, people who made clothes and hats, people who made bows arrows and armour Some worked in shops, there were even people who gave you legal service and medicine. There were heaps of other jobs which we don't have now. Jobs
11. the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world. Renaissance Meaning
12. One theory that has been advanced is that the devastation caused by the Black Death in Florence, which hit Europe between 1348 and 1350, resulted in a shift in the world view of people in 14th-century Italy. Italy was particularly badly hit by the plague, and it has been speculated that the resulting familiarity with death caused thinkers to dwell more on their lives on Earth, rather than on spirituality and the afterlife. Black Death/Plague
13. Broadly speaking, the renaissance movement is used to describe how Europeans moved away from the restrictive ideas of the Middle Ages. From the Fourteenth Century onwards, people started to break away from this idea. The renaissance movement did not necessarily reject the idea of God, but rather questioned humankind’s relationship to God – an idea that caused an unprecedented upheaval in the accepted social hierarchy. Renaissance in Shakespeare's Time
14. Shakespeare: the Renaissance Man Shakespeare was born towards the end of the renaissance period and was one of the first to bring the renaissance’s core values to the theater. Shakespeare Embraced the Renaissance in the Following Ways: Shakespeare updated the simplistic, two-dimensional writing style of pre-renaissance drama. He focused on creating “human” characters with psychologically complexity. Renaissance in Shakespeare's Time
