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Nickname
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The Bard of Avon
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Born When and where
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April 23, 1564
Stratford upon Avon, England |
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Died When and Where
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April 23, 1616
Stratford, England |
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Name of Acting Company
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Lord Chamberlain's Men
Then changed to: The King's Men |
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Who he married at how old
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Anne Hathaway when he was 18
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# of children & names
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3 kids: Susanna, Hamnet, Judith
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Wrote what genres?
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Mainly comedy, tragedy, and history.
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Astrology
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The belief that the stars and planets determined fate
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Alchemy
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Involved turning ordinary metals into gold and finding the Elixir of Life
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Four Humors
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Earth, Air, Fire, Water
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Theatre his plays were performed at
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The Globe Theatre in London
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Renaissance
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from 1300 to 1650, began in Italy and spread west, a rebirth
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Humanism
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philosophy that focused on human talents and abilities; individual strive to improve oneself
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Queen Elizabeth I's Reign
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Took over in 1558 and died 1603, never married; proclaimed Church of England the official church
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Bubonic Plague
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aka Black death, black plague; causes swelling and bleeding under the skin; not contagious
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The Levels of Elizabethan England
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God, then King/Queen, nobility/clergy, gentry, commoners (adults, Children & teens
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Plays he wrote (just a few)
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Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Two Gentelemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Othello, Macbeth, Henry VIII, Henry IV Part 1 and 2
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Differences between theater in Shakespeare's Time and Now
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Then: very few props, no backdrop so setting told in dialogue, simple costumes, many people stood and watched
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# of Plays written by Shakespeare
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37
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What he considered himself/ his job
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Mainly considered self poet, but was playwrite and actor too
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What was considered the center of the universe in Shakespeare's time?
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The Earth
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Astronomy
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the study of outer space
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