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Life & Times. 1564-1616. In his 52 years of life William Shakespeare transformed himself from the son of a small-town glovemaker to a favorite playwright of Queen Elizabeth and King James. Today he is celebrated as the most popular writer in the English language.
- Early Life
William Shakespeare’s Life & Times Early Life. Early Life....
- Actors
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- Women in Shakespeare's Writing
The majority of Shakespeare’s major female characters are...
- Top 10 Shakespeare Quotes
Shakespeare is the most quoted author of all time. Most...
- Sexuality in Shakespeare's England
Just as the term “heterosexuality” didn’t exist in...
- Sexuality in Shakespeare's Plays
Shakespeare reflected Elizabethan standards of...
- Tragedy
For one thing, Shakespeare’s tragedies frequently contain...
- A Glossary of Common Shakespearean Words
Shakespeare frequently uses words which no longer exist in...
- Early Life
William Shakespeare’s Life & Times Early Life. Early Life. Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, a small town in the middle of the English countryside. His father, John Shakespeare, was a glover and public servant with social ambitions, as suggested by his marriage to Mary Arden, the daughter of a well-to-do farmer.
Background on Henry VI, Part 1. Henry VI, Part 1 was probably written in 1592. One of Shakespeare's history plays, this work concerns the events following the death of Henry V, covering the origins of the War of the Roses and the loss of Britain's territories in France. The genre of the history play held a particular fascination for the English ...
Brief Biography of William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was born in 1564. His father was a glove-maker and assemblyman in Stratford-upon-Avon, and his mother was the daughter of a well-to-do landowner. At 18, Shakespeare wed a woman eight years his senior, Anne Hathaway; just six months after their marriage, Hathaway gave birth to a daughter.
PRIMARY. William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in a house in Stratford-upon-Avon. His father, John Shakespeare, was a glove maker and Mary, his mother, was the daughter of a local farmer. In the year William was born, the plague was in Stratford-upon-Avon and many people died as a result. There was a special doctor called a plague doctor.
We do know that in November of 1582, at the age of eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway (a woman eight years his senior), and that she gave birth to a daughter, Susanna, six months later. Two years ...
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Shakespeare spent his early life in Stratford-upon-Avon, receiving at most a grammar-school education, and at age 18 he married a local woman, Anne Hathaway. By 1594 he was apparently a rising playwright in London and an actor in a leading theatre company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men (later King’s Men); the company performed at the Globe Theatre from 1599.
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