In 2016 the world will commemorate 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare.This special anniversary year is a truly unique opportunity to visit his home town Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire to celebrate the lasting legacy of the world's greatest playwright.
Shakespeare400 is a set of major cultural , creative and educational organizations , coordinated by the Kings College London. which will mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016.
#stratford-upon-avon
Stratford-upon-Avon, is the place were William Shakespeare was born, grew up and played. He ate meals in the hall and he slept and dreamt in these rooms. Shakespeare also spent the first five years of married life in this house with his new wife.. Set in the beautiful rural Warwickshire countryside, on the banks of the river Avon, it is one of the most important tourist destinations in the UK.
#annehathaway
Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway, was born in 1556. Shakespeare was eight years younger than her. When they married in 1582 he was eighteen and she was twenty-six. She was pregnant at the time and whatever their relationship was like – which we don’t know anything about – he had no alternative other than to marry her because it was socially unacceptable for a woman of her standing to have a child without being married.
#theglobe
The original theater was built in 1599 for the theater company of William Shakespeare. Many of his masterpieces were created to be represented at the Globe , becoming one of the most successful theaters in London. In 1613 one of the performances was plunged into chaos when the thatched roof caught fire and the fire ended up destroying the theater. On the same ground one second theater that served as headquarters of Shakespeare's company until 1642 , when all the city's theaters were closed by the English Puritan Administration was built. To be out of use, in 1644 the theater was demolished. In 1949, actor , director and producer Sam Wanamaker made a trip to London and , noting with disappointment how there was only a commemorative plaque as a tribute to Shakespeare in 1970 began to raise funds for the reconstruction of the theater . After his death in 1997 the faithful reproduction of the theater building was completed.
#plays
William Shakespeare wrote different kind of plays: tragedy, comdey, dramatic histories,... Some of them are these: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, The two noble Kinsmen, The History of Cardenio, As you like it, All's well that ends.
Romeo and Juliet is one of his most important works, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.
#plague
William Shakespeare lived in the Elizabethan era when the bubonic plague, sometimes referred to as the Black Death, was virulent. He was known to have a terrible fear of the deadly disease and its consequences and this is hardly surprising as it touched so many areas of his life including his life as an actor at the Globe Theater. There were high mortality rates amongst Elizabethan children and this was true of the brothers and sisters of Shakespeare some of whom were struck down by the Bubonic plague (Black Death).
#1595
Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. The plot is based on an Italian tale translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562. Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both, but expanded the plot by developing a number of supporting characters, particularly Mercutio and Paris. Believed to have been written between 1591 and 1595, the play was first published in a quarto version in 1597.
#queenelizabeth
The poet was throughout his life greatly indebted to the patronage and support of royal and noble personages; his royal patrons were Queen Elizabeth and King James I, both of whom greatly loved the drama. The virgin queen devoted herself to the study of the ancient classical period; she also delighted in our own theatrical entertainments, and used her influence in the progress of the English drama, and fostered the inimitable genius of Shakespeare.
#thearmada
The defeat of the Spanish Armada remains the most glorious event remembered of Elizabeth's reign: the forces of Europe's mightiest Catholic power were confounded by English sea dogs and "Protestant gales." William Shakespeare's plays, after the british victory over the Spanish armada in 1588, were very influenced by the new sense of English national identity.
#shakespearequotes
Dius que estimes la pluja, peró obres el paraigua cuan plou.
Dius que estimes el sol, peró trobes un punt d'ombre cuan el sol brilla.
Dius que estimes el vent, però tanques les finestres quan el vent bufa.
Aquesta es la raó per la qual tinc por, també dius que m'estimes.
L'expectativa és l'arrel
de tots els mals de cap.
