3. EARLY LIFE
 Birth and Baptism
 Parents
 Marriage
 Children

5. Stratford, England

7. EARLY CAREER
 Moves to London
 First Play
 Lord
Chamberlain’s
Men
 The Globe
Theatre

8. LONDON THEATRES, C. 1600

9. GLOBE THEATRE
• Built 1599
• 3,000
• Burned and
rebuilt
• Torn down
permanently

12. EARLY CAREER
 “Upstart Crow”
 First Play
 Lord
Chamberlain’s
Men
 Royal
Entertainment

14. EARLY MASTERPIECES
 The Taming of the
Shrew
 The Comedy of
Errors
 Romeo and Juliet
 Richard III
All of these plays were
written in the mid- to
late- 1590’s

16. HEIGHT OF HIS CAREER
 King’s Men
 Blackfriar’s
Theatre (1608)
 1605-06
 Total number of
plays

17. HEIGHT OF HIS CAREER
 Last play--1613
 The Tempest
 The Winter’s Tale
 Henry VIII

19. LAST DAYS
 Returns to
Stratford
 Dies April 23,
1616
 Buried in Holy
Trinity Church in
Stratford

20. Shakespeare’s grave inside
Holy Trinity Church

21. SHAKESPEARE’S EPITAPH
Good friend, for Jesus’ sake
forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blest be the man that spares these
stones
And curst be he that moves my
bones.