William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare

• By Tom B.
• 4-15-03
• Period 7

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Time Line

• 1564
• Shakespeare was born in April of 1564 in
  Stratford-upon-Avon. The day of his birth is not
  officially known, but it is said to be April 23.
• 1582
• Shakespeare was married in 1582 to a girl by the
  name of Anne Hathaway.
• 1586-1592
• There is no record of Shakespeares life from
  1586-1592. This period of time has been called
  The Lost Years.
• 1592-1611
• From 1592-1611 Shakespeare created most and the
  best of his works. Many of these plays and poems
  are still considered today to be masterpieces.
• 1616
• Shakespeare died in 1616 from an unknown cause.

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A list of Shakespeares Works

• Comedies
• All's Well That Ends Well
• As You Like It
• The Comedy of Errors
• Cymbeline
• Love's Labours Lost
• Measure for Measure
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• The Merchant of Venice
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre
• Taming of the Shrew
• The Tempest
• Troilus and Cressida
• Twelfth Night
• Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Winter's Tale
• Poetry

• Histories
• Henry IV, part 1
• Henry IV, part 2
• Henry V
• Henry VI, part 1
• Henry VI, part 2
• Henry VI, part 3
• Henry VIII
• King John
• Richard II
• Richard III
• Tragedies
• Henry IV, part 1
• Henry IV, part 2
• Henry V
• Henry VI, part 1
• Henry VI, part 2
• Henry VI, part 3
• Henry VIII

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William Shakespeares Family

• Shakespeare was born to John and Mary
  Shakespeare. John was leather worker and a
  politician. He had 7 siblings, being the third
  child and first son.

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Education

• Although there is no record of Shakespeare
  attending the Stratford grammar school, it is
  certain that he did attend for two reasons. It
  was built for the purpose to educate the sons all
  the citizens. And also all sons of government
  dignitaries attended for free.

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Shakespeares Recognition

• It is uncertain that Shakespeare won any awards
  in his
• time, but he certainly was recognized greatly for
  his work.
• Robert Greene, a minor Elizabethan playwright,
  had
• written
• for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with
  our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in
  a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to
  bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you
  and beeing an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in
  his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a
  countrey.

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Works Cited

• http//www.cv81pl.freeserve.co.uk/stratford.htm
• http//shakespeare.palomar.edu/
• http//the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/