Name:

Jayson E. Maratas

Time:

2:00 pm. 3:00 pm.

Section:

ICT -11-B

Date:

October 10, 2016

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the
greatest writer in the English language and the worlds pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called
Englands national poet, and the Bard of Avon.

Born:

April 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Died:

April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Spouse:

Anne Hathaway (m. 1582-1616)

Awards:

Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival

Children:

Hammet Shakespeare, Judith Quiney, Susanna Hall

At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children.
Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer,
and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlains Men, later known as the
Kingsmen. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, at the age of 49, where he died
three years later. Few records of Shakespeares private life survive, which has stimulated
considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, and religious
beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.

Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early places
were primarily comedies and histories, and these are regarded as some of the best work ever

produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet,
Othello, King Lear and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language.

Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his
lifetime. In 1623, however, John Heminges and Henry Condell, two friends and fellow actors of
Shakespeare, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected
edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognized as
Shakespeares. It was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson, in which Shakespeare is hailed,
presciently, as not of an age, but for all time.

Early Life
William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful
Glover originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning
farmer. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptized there on 26 April 1564. His actual date
of birth remains unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April, Saint Georges Day. This
date, which can be traced back to an 18 th-century scholars mistake, has proved appealing to
biographers, because Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616. He was the third child of eight and the
eldest surviving son.