PROJECT - SHAKESPEARE

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

By Silvia Grau Gil

BORN: baptized 26 April 1564 (birth date unknown) Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
DIED: April 23, 1616
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
OCCUPATION: Playwright, poet, actor
NATIONALITY: English

BIOGRAPHY

William Shakespeare was the son of JOHN SHAKESPEARE, a successful glover and alderman originally from Snitterfield, and MARY ARDEN, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer. He was born in STRATFORD-UPON-AVON and baptized on 26 April 1564. He was the third child of eight. He died on 23 April 1616.
He was educated at the KING’S NEW SCHOOL in Stratford.
At the age of 18, Shakespeare married the 26-year-old ANNE HATHAWAY. The consistory court of the Diocese of Worcester issued a marriage licence on 27 November 1582. Six months after the marriage, she gave birth to a daughter, SUSANNA, who was baptised on 26 May 1583. Twins, son HAMNET and daughter JUDITH, followed almost two years later and were baptised on 2 February 1585. Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried on 11 August 1596.

* Anne HATHAWAY and their cottage.

SHAKESPEARE AND THE THEATRE

At 1892, aproximately, he went to London, where he started writing.
He write a lot of theatres, which most of them became a success. Nowadays the most famous shakespeare theatres are still in our lifes, and acted in a lot of theatres.
He wrote comedies, poems, histories, tragedies, hypocrypha... However when he was more succesfull was in TRAGEDIES. For example, we can point out Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth or Hamlet.

HIS WORKS:

COMEDIES

All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Winter's Taleg

TRAGEDIES

Romeo and Juliet
Coriolanus
Titus Andronicus
Timon of Athens
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Hamlet
Troilus and Cressida
King Lear
Othello
Antony and Cleopatra
Cymbeline

POEMS

Shakespeare's Sonnets
Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
The Passionate Pilgrim[k]
The Phoenix and the Turtle
A Lover's Complaint

APOCRYPHA

•Arden of Faversham
•The Birth of Merlin
•Locrine
•The London Prodigal
•The Puritan
•The Second Maiden's Tragedy
•Sir John Oldcastle
•Thomas Lord Cromwell
•A Yorkshire Tragedy
•Edward III
•Sir Thomas More

HISTORIES

King John
Richard II
Henry IV, part 1
Henry IV, part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, part 1
Henry VI, part 2
Henry VI, part 3
RichardIII
Henry VIII

LOST PLAYS

Love's Labour's Won
Cardenio