William Shakespeare Research Paper

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, and baptized there April 26, 1564. His actual birthdate remains unknown. He died April 23, 1616 and is the third of eight children, being the eldest surviving son. Even though Shakespeare does not have any records of school as a young boy, it is believed that he attended King’s New School in Stratford. Since he was born in the Elizabethan era, grammar schools varied, but all taught basic Latin text by royal decree, and based their teachings around classical Latin authors. At 18, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, 26, on November 27, 1582. Six months after their marriage, Anne gave birth to their first child, Susanna Shakespeare. Two years following that, they gave birth to twin, Hamnet

By 1598, Shakespeare’s name began to be a selling point, and his name appeared on title pages. He acted in his own and other play after his extreme success as a playwright. The 1616 edition of Ben Jonson’s Works lists him as a cast member in Every Man in His Humour and Sejanus His Fall. Shakespeare balanced his life between London and Stratford during his whole career. He had moved several times from living in St. Helens in Bishopsgate, to buying New Place in his hometown, to Southwark in 1599, the year his company built the Globe Theatre. In 1604, he moved again to an area just north of St. Paul’s Cathedral, which was known to have many fine houses, before retiring back to Stratford some years before his death in 1616. He died within a month of signing his will, where he began by stating that his was in “perfect health”, although the bubonic plague raged through London during 1609, and could have been the cause of a sudden death. There is no real source that explains why or how he died, but nearly a century after his passing, John Ward, the vicar of Stratford wrote in his notebook, "Shakespeare, Drayton and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting and, it seems, drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there

It became a mix of the traditional style with freestyle-like writing. The best example of this is probably Romeo and Juliet. With the releases of Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Richard III, Shakespeare had increasingly perfected his craft within his metaphors and images to the needs of the drama. His normal form of poetry was blank verse in iambic pentameter. As he became more and more skilled in this style of poetry, he began to incorporate his own style by switching flows and interrupting lines. This conveyed a lot more power seen in plays such as Julius Caesar and Hamlet. He uses it to convey the trouble in Hamlet’s