2. All the world's a stage, and all
the men and women merely
players
-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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1564 APRIL 23-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WAS
BORN AT STRATFORD -UPON –AVON.
1582 Nov 28-Married Anne Hathaway of
Shottery, Stratford
1583-1585-Shakespeare’s three children
Susanna, Hamnet&Judith were born.
1585-1592-????
1593- Went to London and starts writing
sonnets and gets recognition as leading
playwright of London

4. 1596-His son, Hamnet dies, possibly from
the bubonic plague, at the age of
eleven
 1598-99-Shakespeare and other
members of his company finance and
built the Globe Theatre
 1600- First production of Julius Caesar at
the Globe Theatre
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5. 1604-First performance of Othello
 1613- The Globe Theatre was destroyed
due to fire
 1614-The second Globe Theatre was built
 1616 -23 April-The death of William
Shakespeare
 1623-’The First Folio’ of his plays was
published
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6. William was the third child of John
Shakespeare, a leather merchant, and
Mary Arden, a local landed heiress. William
had two older sisters, Joan and Judith, and
three younger brothers, Gilbert, Richard
and Edmund
 Shakespeare probably entered the
grammar school of Stratford, King's New
School, where he would have studied
theatre and acting, as well as Latin
literature and history.
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7. William Shakespeare married Anne
Hathaway on November 28, 1582.
William was 18 and Anne was 26 at the
time of marriage
 Susanna Shakespeare the first child of
William and Anne born six months after
their wedding. Two years later twins
Hamnet and Judith were born,. Hamnet
later died of unknown causes at age 11.
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9. 
William Shakespeare was a managing
partner in the King’s Men, an acting
company in London. From all accounts,
the King's Men company was very
popular, and records show that
Shakespeare had works published and
sold as popular literature. The theatre
culture in 16th-century England was not
highly admired by people of high rank

10. 
William Shakespeare and his business
partners built their own theatre on the south
bank of the Thames River, which they
called the Globe.Shakespeare purchased
leases of real estate near Stratford for 440
pounds, which doubled in value and
earned him 60 pounds a year. This made
him an entrepreneur as well as an artist,
and scholars believe these investments
gave him the time to write his plays
uninterrupted.

12. William Shakespeare's early plays were
written in the conventional style of the day,
with elaborate metaphors and rhetorical
phrases
 With only small degrees of variation,
Shakespeare primarily used a metrical
pattern consisting of lines of unrhymed
iambic pentameter, or blank verse, to
compose his plays.
 At the same time, there are passages in all
the plays that deviate from this and use
forms of poetry or simple prose.
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With the exception of "Romeo and
Juliet," William Shakespeare's first plays
were mostly histories. "Richard II" and
"Henry VI," and "Henry V" dramatize the
destructive results of weak or corrupt
rulers and have been interpreted by
drama historians as Shakespeare's way
of justifying the origins of the Tudor
dynasty.

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Shakespeare also wrote several comedies
during his early period: the witty romance
"A Midsummer Night's Dream," the romantic
"Merchant of Venice," the wit and wordplay
of "Much Ado About Nothing," the
charming "As You Like It," and Twelfth Night.
Other plays, possibly written before 1600,
were "Titus Andronicus," "The Comedy of
Errors," "The Taming of the Shrew" and "The
Two Gentlemen of Verona."

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It was in William Shakespeare's later
period, after 1600, that he wrote the
tragedies "Hamlet," "King Lear," "Othello"
and "Macbeth." In these, Shakespeare's
characters present vivid impressions of
human temperament that are timeless
and universal. Possibly the best known of
these plays is "Hamlet," with its
exploration of betrayal, retribution, incest
and moral failure.

16. Tradition has it that William Shakespeare
died on his birthday, April 23, 1616,
though many scholars believe this is a
myth. Church records show he was
interned at Trinity Church on April 5, 1616.
 In his will, he left the bulk of his
possessions to his eldest daughter,
Susanna. Though entitled to a third of his
estate, little seems to have gone to his
wife, Anne,
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18. About 150 years after his death, questions
arose about the authorship of William
Shakespeare's plays.
 Skeptics questioned how anyone of such
modest education could write with the
intellectual perceptiveness and poetic
power that is displayed in his works.
 Official records from the Holy Trinity Church
and the Stratford government record the
existence of a William Shakespeare, but
none of these attest to him being an actor
or playwright.
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19. The only hard evidence surrounding William
Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon
described a man from modest beginnings
who married young and became
successful in real estate.
 Supporters of Shakespeare's authorship
argue that the lack of evidence about
Shakespeare's life doesn't mean his life
didn't exist. They point to evidence that
displays his name on the title pages of
published poems and plays
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20. 
It is generally agreed that most of the
Shakespearean Sonnets were written in
the 1590s, some printed at this time as
well. Others were written or revised right
before being printed. 154 sonnets and "A
Lover's Complaint" were published by
Thomas Thorpe as Shake-speares
Sonnets in 1609

21. Titus Andronicus first performed in 1594 (printed in
1594)
 Romeo and Juliet 1594-95 (1597)
 Hamlet 1600-01 (1603)
 Julius Caesar 1600-01 (1623)
 Othello 1604-05 (1622)
 Antony and Cleopatra 1606-07 (1623)
 King Lear 1606 (1608)
 Coriolanus 1607-08 (1623), derived from Plutarch
 Timon of Athens 1607-08 (1623)
 Macbeth 1611-1612 (1623).
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King Henry VI Part 1 1592 (printed in 1594)
King Henry VI Part 2 1592-93 (1594)
King Henry VI Part 3 1592-93 (1623)
King John 1596-97 (1623)
King Henry IV Part 1 1597-98 (1598)
King Henry IV Part 2 1597-98 (1600)
King Henry V 1598-99 (1600)
Richard II 1600-01 (1597)
Richard III 1601 (1597)
King Henry VIII 1612-13 (1623)

23. 
Tamming of the Shrew first performed 1593-94 (1623),
Comedy of Errors 1594 (1623),
Two Gentlemen of Verona 1594-95 (1623),
Love's Labour's Lost 1594-95 (1598),
Midsummer Night's Dream 1595-96 (1600),
Merchant of Venice 1596-1597 (1600),
Much Ado About Nothing 1598-1599 (1600),
As You Like It 1599-00 (1623),
Merry Wives of Windsor 1600-01 (1602),
Troilus and Cressida 1602 (1609),
Twelfth Night 1602 (1623),
All's Well That Ends Well 1602-03 (1623),
Measure for Measure 1604 (1623),
Pericles, Prince of Tyre 1608-09 (1609),
Tempest (1611),
Cymbeline 1611-12 (1623),
Winter's Tale 1611-12 (1623).

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