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1559
WE Queen Elizabeth takes throne
Good Queen Bess as she was called, took the throne in 1559. Many people consider her the greatest ruler of England. Sadly, all good things must end, and so she ruled for 44 years and then died in 1603. -
Period: 1564 to
William Sheakspear
William Shakespear was born in 1564. No one really knows when he was born, but it is celebrated on April 23rd. He was in love with theatre, but was quite poor. In London, he went to the theatre and bought a ticket and stood with the other groundlings, or people with very cheap tickets. Queen Elizabeth also loved plays, especially blank verses, which are lines written to havelots of rhythm. The rhythm for most blank verse plays is called iambic pentameter. -
Apr 23, 1564
ME William born
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford. His birthday is unknown, but people know it as April 23. His parents, John and Mary Sheakspear were quite well off, considering where they lived; Stratford, a quite small town -
1570
CE Debts!
Sheakspeare's father was a moneylender, meaning people borrowed money from him, but times got bad, so people could not pay back what they owed him. So he became poor. The he started to borrow money as well, but he could not pay them back. Will's dad had other jobs too, but because the wool trade collapsed in 1570. -
1582
ME Married
Will married Anne Hathaway in 1582 -
ME Susanna born
William became a father! His little girl, Susanna was born six months after Will's marriage. -
ME start of lost years
During these 15 years, William leaves town. Nobody now knows where he went. There are lots of theories though, one of them being he was kicked out of town for hunting rabbits on another person's property. This is easy to believe, since at the time there was a famine -
ME/CE End of lost years.
Suddenly, Will pops up out of nowhere in London! Here he has a great time, because he stays there for a very long time, also getting a job. Some people think he tended to the horses for the actors in the theatre. Because of this, for years people called the people who had that job "Sheakspear's boys". -
(I) King James, of Scotland and England
Right before Queen Elizabeth died, she revealed who she wanted to rule England. Her cousin, King James of Scotland. The inference we can make from this is that England and Scotland must have had a very close connection, and so maybe the cultures wielded together. -
MD words we use today
Many words we use today were invented by shakespeare. Words like quarrelsome and cold-blooded. He also made up lots of phrases like "neither rhyme nor reason"(the comedy of errors) and the ever famous "knock, knock, knock! Whose there?"(Macabeth)
