We took notes about the video en studied them. Which are the following:
• Born in 1564.
• John Shakespeare and Mary Arden were his parents.
• Stratford upon Avon was the town where he was born.
• Went to school when he was 13 years old.
• 1582 married Anne Hathaway.
• Suzana, Hamlet and Judith were his children.
• At the age of 27 (1591) moved to London.
• He wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets.
• He lived during Elizabethan England's era
• During that time the needed to close down the play houses because of the spread of diseases.
• The book of psalms (the book in the bible that was mostly songs and poems) Shakespeare translated it.
• The public will go out to see executions, the they would stick them on poles to demostrate what happens when you break the law.
• The didn't had good sanitations (poop in the forest).
• The queen liked him and he often asked him to write plays about her life, she had a lot of influence in his work.
• The theatres were in the worst plays of poor neighborhoods because it was entertainment for poor people.
• He had lot of mistresses (fooled around a lot).
• He had a lot of money during his life time.
• All of the actors were men, even the female parts were played by men.
• Histories/comedies/tragedies (three categories of his plays)
• Histories: they were abot the monarchy (boring).
• Comedies: distinguished because they had happy endings and had a lot of humor.
• Tragedies: Include people dying in the end (everything that does not have a happy ending and are not about the british monarchy).
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