Shakespeare's Life

  • Apr 23, 1564

    Birthday!

    in Stratford upon Avon
  • Apr 26, 1564

    Baptism

  • 1569

    Education

    began at age 5
    6 am still evening every-day year-round
    Stratford Grammar school
  • Marriage

    Anne Hathaway (26 and pregnant)and William (18)got married
  • Susanna's baptism

  • Period: to

    The Lost Years

    Theories:
    traveled in italy
    fought in Netherlands/low countries
    studied law/medicine
    *worked as an apprentice/actor/writer
  • Hamnet and Judith baptism

    (they were twins)
  • family life

    8 children - William was the 3/8 and 1st son
  • new career for william

    actor/play writer/part owner of Lord's Chamberlain's men (acting company)- later renamed to kings men after the king
  • Hamnet died and buried

  • Period: to

    The globe

    destroyed by a fire
  • Judith family life

    Married Thomas Quiney
    had three children that died before the age of 21
  • His dad died

    John Shakespeare was a glove maker, high bailiff (gov't official), and wool merchant
  • susanna gets married

    to Dr. John Hall and had one child named Elizabeth
  • His mom died

    Mary Arden, daughter of a successful farmer
  • Shakespeare's work

    wrote 37 plays (tragedy, comedy, and history)
    154 sonnets
    epics(long poems) 2
  • William died and buried

    buried in Church of the Holy Trinity
  • his First Folio

    Written by John Heminges and Henry Condell
    36 plays included (18 originally but then it was updated)
  • susanna died

  • Judith died