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Birth and Baptism
Parents
Marriage
Children
EARLY LIFE
Stratford, England
Moves to London
First Play
Lord
Chamberlain’s
Men
The Globe
Theatre
EARLY CAREER
LONDON THEATRES, C. 1600
• Built 1599
• 3,000
• Burned and
rebuilt
• Torn down
permanently
GLOBE THEATRE
“Upstart Crow”
First Play
Lord
Chamberlain’s
Men
Royal
Entertainment
EARLY CAREER
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
EARLY MASTERPIECES
King’s Men
Blackfriar’s
Theatre (1608)
1605-06
Total number of
plays
HEIGHT OF HIS CAREER
Last play--1613
The Tempest
The Winter’s Tale
Henry VIII
HEIGHT OF HIS CAREER
Returns to
Stratford
Dies April 23,
1616
Buried in Holy
Trinity Church in
Stratford
LAST DAYS
Shakespeare’s grave inside
Holy Trinity Church
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.
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