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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.

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. 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. 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.

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 His longtime friend, critic, and rival along with other unknown people collected Shakespeare published and unpublished works so that they would not be lost into time.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.

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.