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.