WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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• HE was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England.
• third child of eight children
• he received excellent education

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• He married at age 18 to Anne Hathaway
• their first child was Susanna, born in 1583
• Twins, Hamnet and Judith born in 1585

The period between 1585 and 1592 is known as the lost Years, because there aren't documentary records of SHAKESPEARe's activities.

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• He moved to London around 1591 and he became an actor
• he worked with the lord chamberlin's company of players, later known as the king's men

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• He also wrote some of the most renowned sonnets and studied literature written in the English language
• he plays comedies, tragedies and histories

COMEDIES
- ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
- as you like it
- comedy of errors
- measure for measure
- midsummer night's dream
- taming of the shrew
- much ado about nothing
- twelfth night
- merchant of Venice

tragedies
- Julius Caesar
- hamlet
- Macbeth
- othello
- Romeo and Juliet
- king Lear

Histories
- king Henry v
- king John
- Richard ii
- Richard iii

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• he wrote 37 very successful plays
• his vocabulary was between 17.000 and 34.000 words
• the estimated vocabulary of an educated person today is around 15.000 words

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• he returned to stratford in 1610 where he lived as a country gentleman
• he died here in 1616, at the age of 52.
• his death was a misery. It is rumored that he drank too much and contracted a fever or that he died for a cerebral hemorrhage.