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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare(1564 1616)
 William
Shakespeare was born in
Stratford-upon-Avon, on the 23rd of
April 1564.
 His
father, John Shakespeare, was a
tradesman and an alderman.
 His mother, Mary Arden, was the
daughter of a Roman Catholic
member of the landed gentry.
 William Shakespeare was baptised on
the 26th of April 1564.
 He
was the 3rd of 8 children and the
eldest son of John Shakespeare and
Mary Arden
 He had 4 sisters, Joan, Margaret,
Joan and Anne, and 3 brothers,
Gilbert, Richard and Edmund.
 However his 2 elder sisters, Joan and
Margaret, died before he was born.
 On
the 28th of November 1582, The
Bishop of Worcester married William
Shakespeare and Ann Hathaway of
Stratford.
 William Shakespeare was 18 and Ann
Hathaway was five years older than
him.
 She was the daughter of a farmer
 William
and Ann had 3 children, 2
daughters, Susanna and Judith and a
son, Hamnet.
 Susanna was born on 26th May in
1583, and Hamnet and Judith, (who
were twins) were born on 2nd
February in 1585
he had to leave his family and business in
Warwickshire, for shelter in London.
 William Shakespeare then worked at the
Globe Theatre as an actor, he appeared in
many small parts.
 He then became a poet and then a playwriter.
 Finally he became joint proprietor of The
Globe Theatre and he also had an interest
in the Blackfriars Theatre.

William Shakespeare
wrote about 38
different plays.
 When
he retired from writing in 1611,
he returned to Stratford to live in a
house.
 On his 54th birthday, on 23rd April
1616, William Shakespeare died, after
an evening of drinking with some of
his theatre friends .
 He was buried in the Church of the
Holy Trinity, the same as where he
was baptised in 1564.
William’s house
His gravestone bears the words:
Good Frend for Jesus sake forebeare,
to digg the dust encloased heare,
Bleste be ye man yt spares thes stones,
And curst be he yt moves my bones.
“Any feeling that is made to apear
more important than it really is
can be called inflated”
Romeo & Juliet is among the
most famous works
"My only love sprung from
my only hate!
Too early seen unknown,
and known too late!"
(from Romeo and Juliet)
Hamlet is among the most
famous works
The Song and Sonnets of William
Shakespeare
COMEDIES, HISTORIES, TRAGEDIES
COMEDIES

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The merchant of Venice

12. Night
HISTORICAL GAMES

King III. Richard

VI. Henry

Julius Caesar
TRAGEDIES

Romeo & Juliet

Hamlet

King Lear