Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre

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Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre

Plays have always been a big attraction throughout the centuries. William Shakespeare is most commonly known as one of the best play writers of all time. Even without the modern technology that we have today, Shakespeare was able to deliver magnificent plays using the Globe Theatre. Though Shakespeare wrote many plays, he did not write an autobiography, and none of the letters he wrote could be found. Therefore little is actually known about Shakespeare’s life. What is known can only be found in historical records or from the marvelous plays that Shakespeare wrote.

William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in the small town of Stratford in England to Mary Arden and John Shakespeare. His father, an illiterate glove maker, was able to give William a fair education at a grammar school due to his status as an alderman. As a child in school, William was able to learn Latin and a little Greek. “Indications in his later writing suggest that as a kid Shakespeare enjoyed football, field sports and arguing with the referees” (Meet Bill para. 3). In 1582 at the age of 18, William married Anne Hathaway, who was eight years older than him and pregnant. They had their first child, Susanna, a few months after their wedding, and then later they had twins, Hamnet and Judith. Sadly Hamnet, William’s only son, died at age eleven in 1596, and as a result the Shakespeare name was lost forever. Some time between 1585 and 1592, Shakespeare left his family in Stratford to become an actor and playwright in London. “…William is believed to have left his family back home for some

twenty years whilst he pursued his craft” (Shakespeare Biography para. 14).

During this time Sha...

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...w, Shakespeare was able to use the Globe Theatre to fascinate his audience time and time again. “Shakespeare brings up the curtain and then steps back into the wings, trusting the play to a cast of characters so stunningly vivid that they sometimes seem more real than life” (Obermiller 289).

Works Cited

“Meet Bill.” RomeoandJuliet.com. 1996. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. 30 March 2006 .

Obermiller, Beth. “Shakespeare’s Life.” The Taming of the Shrew. 3rd ed. Logan, IA: Perfection Learning© Corporation, 2004.

“Online Shakespeare.” Btinternet.com. 15 Mar. 2006 .

“Shakespeare Biography.” AbsoluteShakespeare.com. 2002. 15 Mar. 2006 .

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