William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is most famous for his plays. He had many amazing plays like Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare wrote different genres of of plays such as tragedies and comedies. All of Shakespeare’s plays are quite popular and are studied. Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon in the United Kingdom. He was the third child of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. William had two older sisters, Joan and Judith, and three younger brothers by the names of Gilbirt, Richard, and Edmund. Shakespeare attended King’s New School in Stratford. At the age of 18, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, age 26, on November 28, 1582. On May 26, 1583, Shakespeare’s first child Susanna was born. Two years later on February 2, 1585, twins Hamnet and Judith were born. Hamnet died at age 11 due to unknown causes. For seven years, there are
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When King James I was crowned in 1603, the Chamberlain’s Men changed to King’s Men. Shortly into his career, Shakespeare attracted the attention of Henry Wriothesley, the earl of Southampton, whom Shakespeare dedicated his first and second poems, “Venus and Adonis” (1593), and “The rape of Lucrece” (1594), to. By 1597, 15 of 37 of Shakespeare’s plays were published. By 1599, Shakespeare had his own theater called the Globe.
Most of Shakespeare’s first plays, with the exception of tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, were histories. He also had several comedies during his early period including, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Twelfth Night. After 1600, Shakespeare wrote tragedies including, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth.
Ironically, Shakespeare died on his birthday, April 23, 1616 in his home town. Shakespeare left his belongings to his eldest daughter, Susanna, when he died because he wasn’t very close to his wife. Shakespeare was a well respected man of the dramatic arts and will be remembered for a very long