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Intro
William Shakespeare born April 23, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom. Is world renowned poet and playwright. Over the cores of his life, he had written over 40 works, to include poetry comedies and tragedies. Because of the time's way they were written they continue to be performed and adapted for the later audience while still managing to keep the same initial feelings, proclivity, incite and charm as when they were first written and performed.
Parents
William was born to John and Mary Arden, the daughter of the wealthy Robert Arden of Wilmecote and owner of the sixty-acre farm called Asbies. Sometime between 1556 and 1558 the two were married. John was a well-known Glover maker and trough money lending rose his status. John was able to obtain a coat of arms and was granted the title of gentlemen, thigh due to unknown reasons lost his prestige and status. [2]
Family Life
William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway on November 28, 1582, in Worcester, in Canterbury Province. At the time, Shakespeare was only 18 while Ann was eight years his senior being 26. The two has three children together, a daughter they named Susanna, was born on May 26, 1583. Two years later, on February 2, 1585, twins Hamlet and Judith were born. Hamlet later died of unknown causes at age 11. [3] Life in London Somewhere in his twenties, William moved alone to London to peruse his weighting. At this time he produced many works some of the more famous one being his Sonnets. It is said that the “dark lady” was written to his patron by the name of William Herbert was born April 8th, 1580. Herbert was mush younger at the time, but the sonnet was written with such a profound sense of love that many scholars think the two could have been romantically entangled. [4] When the theater was outlawed in London, Shakespeare and his assonates took their globe theater and moved it accost the river into. Unfortunately in 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, wadding from a stage cannon ignited the thatched roof and the theater burned to the ground ‘all in less than two hours. This incident marked the retirement of Shakespeare from his long corridor of playwrights and he returned to Strafford. [5] [6]
After his death
When Shakespeare died at the age of 52 on April 25, 1616. His longtime friend, critic, and rival along with other unknown people collected Shakespeare published and unpublished works so that they would not be lost into time. The name of this book was called The First Folio. [7]
Shakespeare works
Comedy
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Cymbeline
Love's Labours Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale
History
Henry IV, part 1
Henry IV, part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, part 1
Henry VI, part 2
Henry VI, part 3
Henry VIII
King John
Richard II
Richard III
Tragedy
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Poetry
The Sonnets
A Lover's Complaint
The Rape of Lucrece
Venus and Adonis
Funeral Elegy by W.S.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ5cxLPhaX4
- ^ http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/shakespeareparents.html
- ^ http://www.biography.com/people/william-shakespeare-9480323
- ^ http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/whowaswh.html
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ5cxLPhaX4
- ^ http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/about-us/history-of-the-globe/original-globe
- ^ https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/shakespeares-first-folio
- ^ http://shakespeare.mit.edu/