Biblioteca da Escola E B 2,3 de Gualtar
Sábado, 16 de Abril de 2016
Shakespeare 400
Did you know...?
- We don’t know the date that William Shakespeare was born – we just know the date that he was baptised.
- Shakespeare had three children named Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. Hamnet and Judith were twins.
- Before Shakespeare wrote plays, he worked as an actor with the Lord Chamberlain’s Men.
- The Lord Chamberlain’s Men changed its name to the King’s Men in 1603, which is when James I was crowned king and became the group’s patron.
- Shakespeare wrote both poems and plays – he started out by writing poems first.
- Most of the poems Shakespeare wrote are called sonnets. He wrote 154 sonnets!
- Shakespeare is sometimes called ‘The Bard of Avon’ – a bard is another word for a poet.
- Shakespeare wrote almost 40 plays.
- Someone who writes plays is also called a playwright.
- Not a lot of people could read and write in Shakespeare’s time, so the Globe Theatre hung different coloured flags to let people know when a play was going to be performed, and what kind of play it was going to be (if it was sad or funny).
- The Globe Theatre was shaped like an octagon – it had eight sides.
- Women didn’t act in Shakespeare’s time, so boys would have to play the roles of women. That means that Juliet in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ would have been played by a boy!