Background
What movement was Shakespear alive for?
The Renassiance
Shakespear went to a university.
False: Shakespear never attended university
What kind of impact did he make on English vocabulary?
Shakespeare added suffixes and prefixes to many words.
What play is he most known for?
Romeo and Juliet
What did Shakespear study in grammar school?
Latin and Classical Literataure
Queen Elizebeth enjoyed his work.
True
What are the 3 catogories of his plays?
Tragedies, Comidies, Histories
How did Shakespear learn more about drama?
By performing and writing plays with an acting company in London.
He was known for being loud and outgoing.
False: He was known for being quiet and mysterious.
What made Shakespears plays so good??
He had the wisdom to take ideas and plots from things in real life and turned them into his plays.
What was special about Shakespears plays?
His way of making his plays relatable and connect to real, human, everyday feelings and situations
Where were some of his first plays presented?
London's Globe Theater
He was a very poor actor
False: He was a very terrific actor, leading him to suceseed in being a playwright.
What impact did Shakespear make on the world today?
He transformed European theatre by changing expectations in characterization, plot, genre and language