Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Henry VIII1509-47 AD

-Obsessed with producing a male heir

-Married: Six wives

-Created Church of England when Catholic Pope in Rome would not grant him a divorce from first wife.

Wife 1-Catherine of Aragon (widow of his brother, Arthur) in 1509, divorcing her in 1533; the union produced one daughter,

Mary.

Wife 2-Henry married the pregnant Anne Boleyn in 1533; she gave him another

daughter, Elizabeth, but was executed for infidelity (a treasonous charge in the king's consort) in May 1536.

1491-1547

(1533-1603)

-More relaxed reign than Mary, her (Catholic) half sister’s four year reign

ENTERTAINMENTS:

-Plays

-Bear baiting or cock-fighting

-Brothels

A Bishop regulated the industry and made himself a tidy profit

Gaps between teeth were expected

Queen Elizabeth I filled the holes in her mouth with cloth to improve her appearance in public

Some who could not afford sugar, blacked out their teeth to make them look rotten

-Peasants had boring, meager diet

-Wealthy people had more variety

-Mostly meat (even Peacocks)

-Sir Walter Raleigh recently brought potatoes from his travels

-Tomatoes (Love Apples) recently brought from Mexico

-People were suspicious of most vegetables and fruits

-Fancy sugar desserts popular

-Obesity a sign of wealth

-Shakespeare had terrible fear of the deadly disease and its consequences

-The population of Wooster, Ohio was 24,811 at the 2000 census

-In 1563, in London alone, over 20,000 people died of the disease (80,000 in England)

1593 , 1603 and 1608

-3 very serious outbreaks of the disease Led to the closure of all places of Elizabethan entertainment, including Globe Theater

Black Death / Bubonic Plague

April 23, 1564

Will Shakespeare born

April 26, 1564

Will's baptism recorded in the register of the Holy Trinity Parish Church in Stratford-upon-Avon:

"Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere"

November 27, 1582

Will Shakespeare (18 years old)

Marries Anne Hathaway (26 years old)

May 26, 1583

Susanna, Will's first child, is baptized

(Susanna lives to be 66 years old)

1584

English Expedition claims North Carolina for England; Queen Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen" names the land Virginia

February 2, 1585

-Will's wife gives birth to twins, who are baptized.

Judith (girl) and Hamnet (boy) –

(Judith lives to be 77 years old 

Hamnet dies at the young age of 11)

August 11, 1596

Hamnet, Shakespeare's

son, dies

October 20, 1596

John Shakespeare

(Shakespeare’s father) granted Coat of Arms

The motto read: "Non sans droict" or

"Not without right"

1599

Globe Theatre built

March 24, 1603

Queen Elizabeth dies

1603

James VI of Scotland is crowned

King James I, King of England,

upon the death of Queen Elizabeth I

Byrd

Song

Plainsong

Byrd Mass for 4 Voices

Byrd La Volta

Rufty Tufty dance

Street Cries-Orlando Gibbons

Morris Dance- Shephards Hey

The clown Richard Tarlton

Music

June 5, 1607

Shakespeare's daughter Susanna marries a popular doctor, Dr. John Hall

1608

Shakespeare's Troupe, The Kings's Men,

buys the Blackfriars Theatre

Classy clothes A person below the rank of a knight's eldest son, for example, was not allowed to wear satin, damask or taffeta.

February 10, 1616

-Shakespeare's daughter Judith

marries Thomas Quiney.

-Shakespeare unhappy with the marriage -----Especially dislikes Thomas Quiney (who had confessed to impregnating another woman)

1619

The first female English colonists arrive in Jamestown

August 20, 1619

Twenty people, indentured servants, are taken to Virginia, becoming the first African-born bondsmen to arrive in America1620Pilgrims arrive in Massachusetts

April 23, 1616

-Will Shakespeare dies

at the age of 52

April 23, 1616

-Miguel de Cervantes

(wrote Don Quixote) dies

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