"If music be the food of love, play on."
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Early Life
Shakespeare grew up in a middle class family, his dad had a very profitable job as a whittawer, someone who sells leather products, and had worked in the Stratford government. Shakespeare was born around April, 1564. He had began grammar school at the age of six or seven at Stratford grammar school. There is no record of Shakespeare attending school however because of his fathers job it was likely he was to.
Marriage and Children
Later in Shakespeare's life, on November 28, 1582 Shakespeare married a woman named Anne Hathaway. They had three children, one daughter Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1564 until 1592 historians cant really pinpoint any records of Shakespeare besides him marrying and fathering three children.
The Theatre
Shakespeare was lucky not to catch the plague and went to create many works most of his works were created to be preformed at the Globe:
Comedies
- 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 |
Tradgedy
-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. |
Death
Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon.