William Shakespare

William Shakespeare

A renowned and prestigious English poet and play writer born in the year of 1564, the exact date of his birth is unknown. William was born in Stratford-upon-Avon to John Shakespeare a successful Glover and alderman who was originally from Snitterfield and his mother was Mary Arden the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer. In his earlier life William attended the King's New School in Stratford, a free school chartered in 1553, about a quarter-mile from his home. Grammar schools varied in quality during the Elizabethan era, but the curriculum was dictated by law throughout England, and the school would have provided an intensive education in Latin grammar and the classics.

At the age of eighteen William Shakespeare married a twenty-six year old woman by the name of Anne Hathaway. The consistory court of the Diocese of Worcester issued a marriage license on the 27^th November 1582. Six months after the marriage Anne gave birth to a daughter, Susanna, Twins, son Hamnet and daughter Judith, Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11.

After the birth of the twins, Shakespeare left few historical traces until he is mentioned as part of the London theatre scene in 1592, and the years between 1585 and 1592 are referred to as Shakespeare's "lost years.” Several of his work of art was in London Theater by 1592.

The Elizabethan era was a great time for England; this was the time of Queen Elizabeth reign known as the golden age when literary work was flourishing and the work of William Shakespeare rose. During this time plays and other theatrical work broke free of England's past style of plays and theatre. It was an age of exploration and expansion abroad. During this period the opening of the Globe theater a famous theater that was established by William Shakespeare. In this period Religion, Education and the Arts rose to a high standard which was great for England.
In addition to this Shakespeare has created many wonderful works of art which range from

TRAGEDY	HISTORY	COMEDY	POETRY
Antony and Cleopatra	King Henry IV Part 1	All's Well That Ends Well	A Lover's Complaint
Coriolanus	King Henry IV Part 2	Comedy of Errors	Sonnets 1-30
Hamlet	King Henry V	Cymbeline	Sonnets 3 1-60
Julius Caesar	King Henry VI Part 1	Love's Labour's Lost	Sonnets 61-90
King Lear	King Henry VI Part 2	Measure for Measure	Sonnets 91-120
Macbeth	King Henry VI Part 3	Merchant of Venice	Sonnets 121-154
Othello	King Henry VIII	Merry Wives of Windsor	The Passionate Pilgrim
Romeo and Juliet	King John	Midsummer Night's Dream	The Phoenix and The turtle
Timon of Athens	Richard II	Much Ado About Nothing	The Rape of Lucrece
Titus Andronicus	Richard III	Pericles, Prince of Tyre	Venus and Adonis
		Taming of the Shrew
		Tempest
		Troilus and Cressida
		Twelfth Night
		Two Gentlemen of Verona
		Winter's Tale

William has created the path for other influencial writing in plays and literature. his work is renound and has made its mark on the Earth.Shakespare can be seen as the best writer since in his years of writing most of his pieces are of great prestige and carry the art of literature.