William Shakespeare
Pictures, facts, and quotes.
By: Grace W.
Illustrations
• Most pictures will be
illustrations due to the
fact that there were no
cameras in the
Elizabethan times.
• Because of numerous
different illustrations,
no one knows exactly
how Shakespeare
actually looked.
Birthday
• Nobody knows William
Shakespeare’s true
birthday. The closest
anyone can guess is with
the date of his baptism on
April the 26th, 1564. By
tradition, being baptized
three days after your
birth date, William is
assumed to have been
born three days earlier on
April the 23rd.
Shakespearean Background
• William Shakespeare was
born in Stratford, England
in 1564 into a middle
class family.
• He was know as an actor
and writer.
• He began writing at the
age of 28.
• He died in 1616 and had a
monument built for him.
(tomb)
Family
• William Married Anne
Hathaway when he was
18 and she was 26.
• They married in Temple
Grafton, a village near
Stratford, where
William grew up.
• William and Anne had 3
children.
William Shakespeare
• Few people realize that
besides writing 37 plays
and 154 sonnets in his
life time, William was
also an actor who
performed in many of
his own plays and other
playwrights.
Shakespeare’s Rules for Writing
1) “Energy and color of language are much more
interesting than logic and agreement.”
2) “The order of language is disorder.”
3) “If you don’t have a word, make it up!”
4) “Write what you know.”
5) “It’s all in the rhythm.”
6) “The audience doesn’t have to understand
every word. The actor’s bodies, faces,
emotions, and relationships with other actors
will create context for the words.”
Quoted from: Marya Lucca- Thyberg
Director, Nebraska Theatre Caravan
Creation
• Did you know that
Shakespeare invented
the words
“assassination,”
“eyeball,” “puking,”
“skim milk,” “obscene,”
“hot-blooded,”
“epileptic,” “wormhole,”
and “alligator?”
WOW!
• William Shakespeare
lived through the Black
Plague!
Hamlet
• “Shakespeare was said
to have enjoyed playing
the part of the ghost in
Hamlet.”
Will’s will
• Shakespeare left his
“second- best” bed to
his wife, as written in
his will.
Icon?!?
• William Shakespeare is
one of the most
identifiable icons of
England.
• Others include
members of England’s
Royal family,
Westminister Abbey, Big
Ben, and red doubledecker buses.
Candles
• Shakespeare (and
others writers) would
often write during the
day to avoid having to
buy expensive candles
for light to write at
night
WAX!
• William Shakespeare is in
Madam Tussaud’s Wax
Museum in London.
Genre
• William Shakespeare
wrote comedies,
histories, and
tragedies.
• Romeo and Juliet
was one of his first
tragedies.
Lincoln
• U.S. President Abraham
Lincoln enjoyed reading
Shakespeare’s works.
The Same Day?!?
• Evidence indicates that
William Shakespeare
was born and died on
the same day, April 23rd.
Unknown
• No one knows how
Shakespeare died.
• Possibilities of his death
are kidney disease,
murder, and too much
to drink (alcohol
poisoning).
Statue
• In this sculpture , by Thomas
Banks, Shakespeare is sitting
on top of a rock.
Sculptured by Thomas Banks, R.A. Engraved
by Benjamin Smith.
Statue
• William Shakespeare
statue in Weimar,
Germany.
• Shakespeare is know
and loved all around the
world.
Statue
• This is a statue of
William Shakespeare
that stands in Central
Park, in New York City.
• Other statues of
Shakespeare can be
found in Britain,
Australia, and Canada.
Legos!
• William Shakespeare is
famous, even in
legoland, San Francisco!
Seven of Shakespeare’s most famous
quotes (from his plays)
#7
“All that glisters is not
gold.”
• From “The Merchant of
Venice.”
• Prince of Morocco chooses
a golden casket in a test to
win the hand of the
beautiful Portia, only to find
that it contains a skull and a
note with this phrase.
Seven of Shakespeare’s most famous
quotes (from his plays)
#6
“To thine own self
be true.”
• From “Hamlet.”
• The advice Polonius
gives to his son, Laertes.
Seven of Shakespeare’s most famous
quotes (from his plays)
#5
“What’s in a name?”
• From “Romeo and Juliet.”
• Juliet loves Romeo even
though their families
feud.
• “That which we call a
rose by any other name
would smell as sweet,” is
how the phrase
continues.
Seven of Shakespeare’s most famous
quotes (from his plays)
#4
“All the world’s a
stage.”
• From “As You Like It.”
• Jacques compares life
to acting in a play.
Seven of Shakespeare’s most famous
quotes (from his plays)
#3
“Get thee to a
nunnery.”
• From “Hamlet.”
• Hamlet gets furious at
his mother for marrying
his uncle and tells his
love, Ophelia, to stay
away from men all
together by becoming a
nun.
Seven of Shakespeare’s most famous
quotes (from his plays)
#2
“Beware the Ides of
March.”
• From “Julius Caesar.”
• Caesar is warned to
"beware the ides of
March," which is the
day that he will be
killed.
Seven of Shakespeare’s most famous
quotes (from his plays)
#1
• “To be or not to be–
that is the
question.”
• From “Hamlet.”
• Perhaps the most famous
Shakespeare quotation.
• This is the opening of
Hamlet's soliloquy, in when
he wonders about life and
death.
Other Shakespeare Quotes
Other Shakespeare Quotes
Works Cited
•Clipart
•http://www.absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/facts
/facts.htm
•http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xfacts.htm
•http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/23/shak
espeares-birthday-7-o_n_549635.html
•http://media.photobucket.com/image/shakespear
es%20grave/heatherlondon/101_1168.jpg?o=3
•http://photobucket.com/images/shakespeare%20
quotes/
•Mrs. Koester’s Romeo and Juliet packet.
Thanks for
watching!
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