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This resource was created by Anjna Chouhan for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Learning Department www.shakespeare.org.uk This resource is designed to help you understand your with images by Mya Gosling www.goodticklebrain.com © Mya Gosling visit to the home in which Shakespeare was most

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Before you visit the house you will see a small exhibition of objects The main meal of the day was taken at 11’o clock in the morning. relating to Shakespeare’s life and legacy. You will also see and hear Food was prepared in a small room separated from the house. information about Shakespeare’s work. The kitchen you see today was added shortly after the Shakespeare family left. Look at the word wall as you enter the exhibition. Which words do you recognise? “These gloves the count sent me; they are an Did you know that each of these words first appeared in Shakespeare’s excellent perfume” works? Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 4

Who was Shakespeare? William’s father, John Shakespeare, made and sold gloves for his living. He sold the gloves from the window of the workshop looking William Shakespeare is one of the world’s most famous playwrights out onto Henley Street. As a boy, William would have worked with and poets. his father and played in the workshop.

He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564, travelled to London in the late 1580s and became an actor, and eventually he started writing his own plays.

During his lifetime Shakespeare wrote 38 plays that we know of, many of which were collaborations with other playwrights, 154 sonnets and William helping his father in the glover’s workshop. 5 narrative poems.

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The building is made from oak beams filled in with wattle (woven hazel  William Shakespeare’s record of baptism was made on April 26th sticks) and daub (a mixture of mud, clay, dung, straw and hair). 1564. His date of birth is likely to have been several days before on the 23rd. He was lucky to survive, given that plague broke out in The parlour was the best room in the house, used for entertaining and Stratford-upon-Avon the same year. It claimed 1 in 6 lives. housing guests. The best bed in the house would be on display here to show off the family’s wealth. The second-best bed was reserved for the master and mistress of the household. One in six people in Stratford died of the plague in 1564. “One feast, one house, one mutual happiness” The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 5 Scene 4  William was the first surviving son of John and Mary Shakespeare. He had 7 siblings, 3 of whom died during childhood. Beds were surrounded by thick woollen curtains to expel draughts, while the sheets were made from linen. The mattresses were stuffed with feathers or wool. “Some undeserved fault I’ll find about the making of the bed, And here I’ll fling the pillow, there the bolster, The Shakespeare family: William with This way the coverlet, another way the sheets” his parents, brothers and sisters. The Taming of the Shrew, Act 4 Scene 1

 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in Indoor plumbing didn’t arrive in Stratford until the 19th century. People November 1582, who was 8 years his senior. used objects known as ‘piss pots’ and emptied them into the streets. She was pregnant at the time and he was 18 years of age.

William’s wife Anne was “There’s his chamber, his house, his castle, already pregnant when his standing-bed and truckle-bed” they got married. The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 4 Scene 5 6 3 Between 1582-1592 Shakespeare disappears from all record. Fun Folio Facts These have been called the ‘lost years’.

 Contains 14 comedies, 10 histories and 12 tragedies. Scholars have speculated for centuries about what Shakespeare got up to  The Comedy of Errors is the shortest play, while Hamlet is the during the lost years. Theories include longest.

Shakespeare becoming a schoolmaster,  The tragedy Titus Andronicus has the highest body count a lawyer’s clerk, a soldier and even at 14. a pirate.

William left Stratford and we do not know where he went during the next six years. Nobody knows exactly what William Shakespeare looked like. Although his friends saw the image from the 1623 First Folio Shakespeare’s work was collected and published and his wife saw the bust over his grave, there is no evidence to in 1623 by his friends and colleagues. suggest that either was a good likeness.

The book, called ‘Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies’, contains 36 plays. It has no poetry or sonnets, and does not include 4 plays (2 of which are lost) known Advertisement for the First Folio. to have been written by Shakespeare. The book Did William become a pirate in the six years went on sale for £1 (around £100 today). of his life in which he disappeared from all records?

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