henry VII

   As you well know, Henry VIII was Elizabeth's father.

Write a short profile of this amazing character. Use the                     next websites if necessary.

             http://www.wickham.newbury.sch.uk/topics/tudors/tudors.html

               http://tudorhistory.org/henry8/

NAME: Henry Tudor

BORN: 28 June 1491
Greenwich Palace

PARENTS: Henry VII and 

Elizabeth of York

CROWNED: 1509 when his father died

RELIGION: Catholic.

MARITAL STATUS: he got married 

6 times.

CHILDREN: Mary I, Elizabeth I

and Edward VI.

HOBBIES: jousting, archery, music, 

hunting, wrestling and athlete.

MOST FAMOUS PALACE: 

Hampton court

HIS LORD CHANCELLOR OF

ENGLAND: Lord Chancellor

DIED: 28 January 1547

Whitehall Palace

REIGNED: 1509 - 1547

BURIED: 16 February 1547
St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

   Illustrations :

(1)Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger - The Royal Collection

(2)Henry at approx. age 40. by Joos van Cleeve - The Royal Collection

(3)A portrait of Henry by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) made c. 1536. Madrid, the Thyseen-Bornemisza Collection

(4)Detail of Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger - The Royal Collection

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3. This is the plan of Shakespeare's Birthplace.                                                Read the description provided in the following website                                                                 http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/                                          and then write the name of each room in the appropiate place.
Birthplace - ground floor	First floor - chambers

2. By using the former websites, identify the following buildings. Match each picture with the names on the left.
1. Shakespeare's Birthplace 2. Mary Arden's house 3. Anne Hathaway's Cottage 4. Edward VI Grammar School 5. New Place 6. Hall's Croft 7. Holy Trinity Chruch
	Mary Arden's house
Anne Hathaway's Cottage	Shakespeare’s Birthplace
Edward VI Grammar School	Hall's Croft
Holy Trinity Church	New Place

1. Search the websites provided and define the buildings related to William Shakespeare, by using the appropiate relative clause.

http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/

http://www.stratford.co.uk/visit1.html

http://www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/

Shakespeare's Birthplace is the house where ........he was born....................

Mary Arden's house is the place where ......Shakespeare's mother, Mary Arden, grew up.........

Anne Hathaway's cottage is the place where..the young William Shakespeare courted his future bride.

New Place & Nash House .... Shakespeare's final home in Stratford-upon-Avon..........................

Hall's Croft is .... the elegant home of Susanna Shakespeare and her husband, Dr John Hall....................

Edward VI Grammar School ..................where Shakespeare was studying.............................

Holy Trinity Church ............the home to the grave of William Shakespeare.........................................

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE QUESTIONS

1. When was William Shakespeare born? Where?

Shakespeare was born the 26^th of April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

2.  Write the name of William Shakespeare’s parents. Who were they?

His father was John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover and his mother Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer. She was the heiress to some land.

3. Write the name of his wife. When did they get married?

His wife is Anne Hathaway. When Shakespeare was 18 years old and Hathaway was 26.

4. Write the names of his children. What happened to them?

They had three children: Susanna and twins, Hamnet and Judith.

Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 (1596).

5. What was the name of his hometown?

Stratford-upon-Avon

6. Write the name of the buildings in his hometown related to him.

King Edward VI Grammar School, Mary Arden's house, Nash House, Hall's Croft, Anne Hathaway's cottage and Holy Trinity Church.

7. Where did he study?

He studied in Stratford.

8. Did he go to university?

No, he didn’t.

9. Why did he leave his family and hometown to go to London?

Nicholas Rowe, Shakespeare's first biographer, recounted a Stratford legend that Shakespeare fled the town for London to escape prosecution for deer poaching in the estate of local squire Thomas Lucy.

Another 18th-century story has Shakespeare starting his theatrical career minding the horses of theatre patrons in London.

10. How many plays had he written when he arrived in London?

None

11. When can we find the first reference to Shakespeare in the literary world of London?

In 1592, when a fellow dramatist, Robert Greene, wrote about Shakespeare in a pamphlet written on his deathbed.

12.  When he was in London, he was an actor and playwright who belonged to the company called Lord Chamberlain's Men, which had been founded by Lord Chamberlain and whose theatre was called The Globe. They has the best actor  Richard Burbage and the best dramatist William Shakespeare.

13.  When and where did he die?

He died on April 23, 1616 in Stratford-upon- Avon

14.  When and where did his wife die?

In 1623, seven years after Shakespeare.

15.  Where is he buried?

In the chancel of the parish church of Stratford-upon-Avon.

16.  What did his will state?

Shakespeare's will state is long and detailed document.

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1. Surname of William Shakespeare's wife

2. The most cruel and bloody of Will's tragedies

3. Queen of England during most of Will's life

4. Tragedy set in the Roman Empire

5. Name of the book which collected Will's plays

6. Will's only son

7. Will's mother

8. Will's hometown

9. Name of Will's rival poet.

10.Founder of the Theatre

11.One of Will's most famous tragedies, in which a king has three daughters.

12.A famous theatre close to the Globe

13.Will's first daughter

14.Hamlet's unfortunate girlfriend

15.Will's theatre

16.One of Will's famous tragedy . " Out damn spot. Out, I say !"

17.Tragedy and name of the king who said " A horse. My kingdom for a horse !".

18.Tragedy and name of a man who killed his wife Desdemona for jealousy.