Only an active author for a quarter century, Shakespeare wrote multitudes of plays, sonnets, and poems. William was not able to attend a university or study under a great artist, because he was not born to greatness or wealth. He is one of the most performed playwrights to this day. Some of his most popular works include Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth, to name a few. William Shakespeare has become the most famous and influential author in English literature.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom, on the approximate date of April 23, 1564, three days before the first known record of him, his baptismal record. He was the third of eight children born to a tradesman and glovemaker, John Shakespeare, and Mary Arden,
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Perhaps the most widely known of these is Hamlet, involving incest, revenge, disloyalty, and ethical failure. The hero and the ones he loves are often destroyed by the ethical failures that push Williams Shakespeare’s plots. Shakespeare wrote a few tragicomedies, plays with both comedy and tragedy, during his last years. “Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest”, are some of them. His tragicomedies were more solemn than his comedies, yet not as gloomy as his tragedies, such as Macbeth, having ended with mercy and settlement (Biography.com Editors). Shakespeare’s health started decreasing in 1616, so he modified his will. Because Hamnet, his only son, died at a young age, he assigned most of his worth to his two daughters. William left financial donations for the unfortunate of Stratford, theater partners, friends, and his sister. He left his “second best bed” to his wife, leaving speculation about the health of their marriage. William Shakespeare died a month after that, ironically on his birthday, April 23, 1616, in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon. “…He left a lasting legacy in the form of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and two narrative poems.” (The