William Shakespeare
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children. He produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608.
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William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith. He produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies and collaborated with other playwrights. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Few records of Shakespeare’s private life survive. This has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. He 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. His date of birth is unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April, Saint George’s Day. This date, which can be traced to a mistake made by an 18th-century scholar, has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare died on the same date in 1616.
The First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare’s dramatic works that included all but two of his plays, was published in 1623. The volume was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson, in which Jonson presciently hailed Shakespeare in a now-famous quote as ‘not of an age, but for all time’. The exception is the appearance of his name in a case before the Queen’s Bench court at Westminster court in 1592, dated 9 October 1588 and 9 October 9masmas. Scholars refer to the years between 1585 and 1592 as Shakespeare’s “lost years” Biographers have reported many apocryphal stories for this period as well as many stories about Shakespeare’s life and times. He left few historical traces until he is mentioned in part of the London theatre scene in 1596, when he was part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later known as the King’s Men. He died three years later, aged 49, at Stratford, where he appears to have retired to Stratford. He had a daughter, Susanna, baptised 26 May 1583, and a son, Hamnet, two years later and baptised 2 February 1585. After the birth of the twins, he followed almost six years later with the death of Hamnet in August 1596 and was buried 11 August 1595.
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