Shakespeare 400
#shakespeare400 This hashtag is a leading cultural, creative and educational organisations, coordinated by King's College London, wich will mark the 400th anniversary of Sakeaspeare death in 2016.
#stratford-upon-avon Tratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare, steeped in culture and history. 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 Anne Hathaway 1556 - 1623 was the wife of english playwright and poet, Shakespeare. Hathaway married Shakespeare in 1582 at the village of Temple Grafton near Stratford upon, She lived in Stratford all her life, even while Shakespeare was working and living in London. She died in Stratford on 6 august 1623.
#theglobe The globe theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, on land owned by Thomas Brend and inherited by his son, Nicholas Brend and grandson Sir Matthew Brend, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613
#plays His plays in this period include Hamlet 1600, Othello 1603, King Lear 1605 and Macbeth 1606 and The tempest on 1611.
#plague Shakespeare’s company, the King’s Men, lowered their flag at the Globe theatre and locked their playhouse doors. Plague had returned. Two years earlier, after an outbreak in which more than 30,000 Londoners had died, the privy council decreed that public playing should cease once the number of those who died every week of plague rose “above the number of 30”.
#1595 A busy year for Shakespeare as he is thought to have composed Richard II performed that very same year, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, thought to be composed for a wedding and the greatest love story of all time, Romeo and Juliet.
#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 Spain and England were at daggers drawn almost from the time of Elizabeth's accession, with her rejection of Philip II's proposal of marriage. The two states were ideologically and commercially opposed--England's trade with the Spanish-controlled Netherlands increasingly challenged Philip's colonial empire.
#shakespearequotes Here i leave a few quotes that say Shakespeare: To be, or not to be: that is the question Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. Hell is empty and all the devils are here. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me
