Little is known about Shakespeare's life as a ____________.

What we do know:

1. He came from Stratford-on-Avon, a small ____________ on the river ____________ about 90 miles northwest of ____________.

2. Church records report that ____________ was baptized on ____________ 26, 1564, and he was likely born a couple of ____________ earlier.

His father worked as a ____________ maker and later became the town's ____________.

His mother was a distant ____________ to a wealthy ____________, and she lived just ____________ of town.

Historians have not found evidence that he attended ____________, but it is likely that he attended grammar school, where he would have ____________ works by ancient ____________ writers, such as Virgil and Seneca, and studied ____________.

At ____________ years old, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, who was a local ____________ daughter.

The couple had ____________ children: a ____________ named Susanna in 1583, and boy and girl ____________ named Hamnet and Judith just ____________ years later.

Little is known about Shakespeare during the next couple of ____________. These are known as the “lost years.”

We do know that he apparently left his ____________ behind in Statford, where they could live ____________, and traveled to ____________.

Historians presume that he likely joined and traveled with a ____________ company as an ____________.

Soon, however, Shakespeare emerged back into history's ____________ as a successful ____________ and sometimes ____________ in London.

His earliest ____________ include Richard III and The Comedy of Errors.

Between ____________ and ____________ London city officials closed the theaters because of an outbreak of the ____________.

He began writing lyric and narrative ____________, and in ____________ published his long ____________ Venus and Adonis.

By 1596, Shakespeare's ____________ had made his theater ____________, The Lord Chamberlain's Men, the most successful of its day.

____________ of Shakespeare's plays had been produced in ____________. This year also marked the ____________ performance of Romeo and Juliet.

In 1599, William became part ____________ of London's new ____________ Theater.

In 1603, James I succeeded Elizabeth I on the ____________, and he became ____________ to Shakespeare's theater company, which gained a new ____________: The King's Men.

Shakespeare's ____________ continued to grow.

He purchased a beautiful new ____________ for his family in Stratford, and a coat of arms for his ____________, an important symbol that allowed his father to move into the aristocracy.

In 1609, Shakespeare published a collection of his sonnets, poems about ____________ and ____________.

In 1613, Shakespeare ____________ to Stratford, after which he wrote ____________ additional plays.

His final complete ____________ are believed to by Cymeline, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, and Henry VIII.

The monument that marks his grave states that he ____________ on April 23, 1616.

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.