Biography of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born on April 23rd 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon and died on April 23rd 1616; he was 52 years old when he died and was buried in the Stratford church. His father was John Shakespeare and died in 1601; his mom was Mary Arden and died in 1608. He married to Anne Hathaway the daughter of a farmer. They got three children: Susanna who was born on 1583 and two twins a boy which is Hammet and a girl which is Judith. Susanna was the eldest child and she didn’t have any education, she married John Hall in 1607 and they got one daughter and named her Elizabeth. Hammet was the only son of William Shakespeare, he died at age eleven and the cause was unknown. Judith is the youngest daughter of William Shakespeare and she married Thomas Quiney and had three children.

Shakespeare went to London between 1585 and 1592 and began to establish himself as an actor and playwright and his plays were performed only by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men and later the name was changed to King’s Men. Between 1589 and 1592 Shakespeare established his career and begins to make a name for him. They built their own theatre across the Thames, south of London, which they called "The Globe", the globe was built by 1599. In 1597 he purchased the second largest house in Stratford which he called New Place. William Shakespeare wrote a series of popular stage plays. Manny of his work including “Romeo and Juliet” and “Macbeth” are still read and performed around the world, and some doubts are there about if someone used to write the plays and poets for him. William Shakespeare’s name became a selling point.

William Shakespeare’s career is divided into four periods.Beginning with what is referred to as an experimental period starting around 1591 and endin...

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... facts about his activities. The first ''Lost Years'' are between 1578 and 1582 when he leaves school at the age of 14 and 1582 when he marries Anne Hathaway at the age of 18. The second ''Lost Years'' are between 1582 and 1592 the evidence occurred between when he was in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1589 and when he had to move to London by 1592.

The First Folio was published by John Heminge and Henry Condell in 1623 and it contains thirty-six plays although many of the plays were already in the quarto. The Foil was created after seven years of William’s death. The thirty-six plays of the First Folio occur in an order, the order is: first the comedies, second the histories, and last the tragedies. The Folio includes all of Shakespeare’s plays except of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, and The Two Noble Kinsmen, and two "lost plays" which are Cardenio and Love's Labour's Won.