Day: 3 February 2016

The Globe

The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated William Shakespeare. It was Built in 1599 by Shakespeare’s play company called the lord Chamberlains men. It was built on the land owned by Thomus Brend, who later inherited to his son Nicholas Brend and grandson Sir Matthew Brend, unfortunatly it was destroyed by fire on 29 of june 1613. In 1614 a second globe theatre was built in June and closed in 1642.

A modern remake/reconstruction of the globe, named Shakespears Globe, which opened in 1997 approximently 750 feet (250 meters) from the original theater, it was said to be really noisy and was sort of like a market people would sell stuff thereb would be pickpockets and loads of people would talk through the performance. The higher up in the theatre the more money you would have to pay. The cheapest place to watch a performance would be to stand up on the bottom, which means if they were watching a really long play lets say four hours they would have to stand up for that long. The Globe was owned by actors who were shareholders of the Lord Chamberlains Men. The names of some of them were Richard Burbage, Cuthbert Burbage and John Hemminge. That’s the globe, Shakespeare’s theatre.

 

William Shakespeare

At 18 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in 1556-1616, a woman eight years his senior, in a ceremony which people say was hard to arrange due to her pregnancy. she had a daughter, Susanna, This article is about the poet and playwright.who goes by the name of William Shakespeare.William Shakespeare is one of the world’s greatest writers. He wrote plays for the theaters. He wrote loads of poetry too.William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, a bustling market town 100 miles northwest of London, and was baptized there on April 26, 1564. His birthday is traditionally celebrated on April 23, which was the date of his death in 1616 and is the feast day of St. George, the patron saint of England. Shakespeare’s father, John, dabbled in farming, wood trading, tanning, leather work, money lending and other occupations; he also held a series of municipal positions before falling into debt in the late 1580s. The ambitious son of a tenant farmer, John boosted his social status by marrying Mary Arden, the daughter of an aristocratic landowner. Like John, she may have been a practicing Catholic at a time when those who rejected the newly established Church of England faced persecution. Considered the greatest English-speaking writer in history and known as England’s national poet, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) has had more theatrical works performed than any other playwright.on his day, countless theater festivals around the world honor his work, students memorize his eloquent poems and scholars reinterpret the million words of text he composed. They also hunt for clues about the life of the man who inspires such “bardolatry” (as George Bernard Shaw derisively called it), much of which remains shrouded in mystery. Born into a family of modest means in Elizabethan England, the “Bard of Avon” wrote at least 37 plays and a collection of sonnets, established the legendary Globe theater and helped transform the English language. William was the third of eight Shakespeare children, of whom three died in childhood. Though no records of his education survive, it is likely that he attended the well-regarded local grammar school, where he would have studied Latin grammar and classics. It is unknown whether he completed his studies or abandoned them as an adolescent to apprentice with his father.who was born less than seven months later in May 1583. Then Twins Hamnet and Judith followed in February 1585. Susanna and Judith would lived to old age while Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son,unfortunately died at 11. As for William and Anne, it is believed that the couple lived apart for most of the year while the bard pursued his writing and theater career in London. It was not until the end of his life that Shakespeare moved back in with Anne in their Stratford home.

William was the third of eight Shakespeare children, of which three died in childhood. Though no records of his education survive, it is likely that he attended the well-regarded local grammar school, where he would have studied Latin grammar and classics. It is unknown whether he completed his studies or abandoned them as an adolescent to apprentice with his father.

To the dismay of his biographers, Shakespeare disappears from the historical record between 1585, when his twins’ baptism was recorded, and 1592, when the playwright Robert Greene denounced him in a pamphlet as an “upstart crow” (evidence that he had already made a name for himself on the London stage). What did the newly married father and future literary icon do during those seven “lost” years? Historians have speculated that he worked as a schoolteacher, studied law, traveled across continental Europe or joined an acting troupe that was passing through Stratford. According to one 17th-century account, he fled his hometown after poaching deer from a local politician’s estate.

Whatever the answer, by 1592 Shakespeare had begun working as an actor, penned several plays and spent enough time in London to write about its geography, culture and diverse personalities with great authority. Even his earliest works evince knowledge of European affairs and foreign countries, familiarity with the royal court and general erudition that might seem unattainable to a young man raised in the provinces by parents who were probably illiterate. For this reason, some theorists have suggested that one or several authors wishing to conceal their true identity used the person of William Shakespeare as a front. (Most scholars and literary historians dismiss this hypothesis, although many suspect Shakespeare sometimes collaborated with other playwrights.)

Shakespeare’s Plays and Poems

Shakespeare’s first plays, believed to have been written before or around 1592. Shakespeare was likely affiliated with several different theater companies when these early works debuted on the London stage. In 1594 he began writing and acting for a group known as the Lord Chamberlain’s Men ultimately becoming its house playwright and partnering with other members to establish the legendary Globe theater in 1599.

Between the mid_1590s and his retirement around 1612, Shakespeare penned the most famous of his 37-plus plays, including “Romeo and Juliet, “Hamlet,” “King Lear,” “Macbeth” and “The Tempest.” As a dramatist, he is known for his frequent use of iambic pentameter, meditative soliloquies (such as Hamlet’s ubiquitous “To be, or not to be” speech) and ingenious wordplay. His works weave together and reinvent theatrical conventions dating back to ancient Greece, featuring assorted casts of characters with complex psyches and profoundly human interpersonal conflicts. Some of his plays—notably “All’s Well That Ends Well,” “Measure for Measure” and “Troilus and Cressida”—are characterized by moral ambiguity and jarring shifts in tone, defying, much like life itself, classification as purely tragic or comic.

Also remembered for his non-dramatic contributions, Shakespeare published his first narrative poem ,which was dedicated to his close friend, while London theaters were closed due to a plague outbreak in 1593. The many reprints of this piece and a second poem, “The Rape of Lucrece,” hint that during his lifetime the bard was chiefly renowned for his poetry. Shakespeare’s famed collection of sonnets, which address themes ranging from love and sensuality to truth and beauty, was printed in 1609, possibly without its writer’s consent., The sonnets did not enjoy the same success as Shakespeare’s earlier lyrical works.

Shakespeare died at age 52 of unknown causes on April 23, 1616, leaving the bulk of his estate to his daughter Susanna.

In 1623 two of Shakespeare’s former colleagues had published a collection of his plays. Shakespeare’s plays were a big hit and went to loads of theatres. They kept on giving loads of people grace. His plays then became big film and TV hits. Some of his greatest plays were; Macbeth., Othello, the tempest and the biggest , which is only my opinion, Romeo and Juliet.