• 1564 Born Stratford-upon-
Avon
• 1582 Married Anne Hathaway at the age of 18 and had three children.
• 1585 Leaves for London.
• 1596 Son Hamnet dies.
• 1599 The Globe Theatre built.
• 1611 Returns to Stratford, builds New Place
• 1611 The Globe destroyed by fire.
• 1613 Shakespeare dies in
Stratford.

• Shakespeare’s plays can be divided into tragedies, histories, comedies & ‘problem plays’
• Shakespeare wrote hundreds of sonnets. These were often his ‘bread and butter’ written for rich patrons to fund his works for the stage.
• His Complete Works can be found on PupilsInfo-
Departments-English on the school server.

• William Shakespeare’s influence on the modern world is profound.
• He is know as ‘the Bard’ & as a
‘playwright for all time’ since many of the themes addressed by his work are universal, timeless and as relevant today as they were in sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
• Shakespeare is commonly regarded as the greatest ever purveyor of the language.
• His plays and poems are widely studied.

• The Spanish Armada
• War with France
• War with Spain
• War with Ireland
• The constant threat of invasion, disease & fire
• The rise of Protestantism
• Change of monarch from
Elizabeth I to James II

• Built in 1599 of timbers ‘stolen’ from a theatre north of the
Thames by the Chamberlain’s men
• The timbers were transported across a frozen Thames during one of the harshest winters in history.
• Destroyed in 1613 and subsequently rebuilt the following year.
• Closed by Puritans in 1642.
• Levelled in 1644 to make way for tenements.
• Rediscovered in 1989 & rebuilt
205 metres away on London’s fashionable South Bank. The new Globe Theatre opened in
1997.

• Othello is often deemed a
‘domestic’ tragedy and focuses on jealousy and its consequences.
• It tells the tale of Othello, commander in the Venetian army, his loyal and loving wife,
Desdemona, and their ruination at the hands of the evil Iago, the
Moor’s duplicitous and diabolical right-hand man.
• The play is partially set in sixteenth century Venice, then an independent Italian state. The citystate was at war with the Turks and part of the action is set in
Cyprus.
• Othello is a typical Shakespearian tragic hero, noble of speech and action, yet with a fatal flaw; he has a tragic propensity to jealousy.

In his rendering of the drama
Shakespeare utilises the following:
• Soliloquy
• Irony
• Exposition
• Characterisation
• Dialogue
• Conflict between characters
• Revelation
• Climax
• Denouement
• Resolution

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe_Theatre
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shake speare
• http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/
• www.rsc.org.uk
• The school library.
• This presentation is also on the school server.