William Shakespeare.

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William Shakespeare.

• Life of William Shakespeare.

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William Shakespeare.
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Birth of William Shakespeare.

• William Shakespeare, the greatest English
  playwright and poet, was born in the family of
  John Shakespeare and Mary Arden in
  Stratford-upon-Avon on April 23 1564. His mother
  was a farmers daughter from Wilmot and his
  father, a wool seller, became the mayor of
  Stratford in 1568. Being rich and prosperous in
  1560-1569 Shakespeares family started losing
  their wealth and about 1580 William had to leave
  the Grammar school, which was one of the best in
  the country, in order to earn his living. It is
  supposed that having left the school William
  helped his father in their family business for a
  while.

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Weeding of Shakespeare.

• In November 1585 he married Anne Hathaway.
  Perhaps, William had to do that as his first
  child, a daughter called Susannah, was born in
  May of the following year. In February his wife
  presented William with twins. At the end of 1580
  Shakespeare left Stratford for London. It is
  still unknown why he did that since those years
  are considered dark or lost years of his life.

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London.

• London   At the beginning of 1590s Shakespeare
  arrived in London. Soon after his first play,
  chronicle Henry IV, was created. Having become
  an outstanding public person Shakespeare was
  immediately given a jealous attack by Robert
  Green, the leader of the group of playwrights
  University Wits, which reigned on London stage.
  The latter called him a shaker of a spear and
  a crow dressing up in our feathers (the changed
  citation from Henry IV.)

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A New Playwright Is on Stage

•    In 1592-1594 during the epidemic of plague all
  London theatres were closed and Shakespeare used
  that unexpected pause to create some plays the
  chronicle Richard III, "The Comedy of Errors",
  Taming the Obstinate , the first tragedy Titus
  Andronicus made up in a popular style of a
  bloody tragedy.He also published poems Venus
  and Adonis and Lucrezia under his own name.
  After the plague Shakespeare joined The Lord
  Chamberlain's Troupe called after its patron Lord
  Hansdon. University Wits didn't exist any more
  since some of them died while he others stopped
  writing. So Shakespeare's epoch began. That is
  what one of his contemporaries F. Merezh wrote
  Like Plautus and Seneca who were considered by
  the Romans the best at comedy and tragedy,
  Shakespeare is considered to be the superb at
  both kinds of plays in England.

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The Globe Theatre

•    In 1590s (the first period of his creativity)
  Shakespeare wrote almost all his chronicles and
  most of his comedies. In 1595-96 he published
  Romeo and Juliet soon after The Merchant of
  Venice, which was called serious later
  on.   In the autumn of 1599 The Globe Theatre
  was opened. Above the entrance one could see the
  Latin quotation Totus mundis agit histrionem
  which meant The whole world is a theater.
  Shakespeare became one of its co-owners, its
  actors and the main playwright. That year he
  wrote the tragedy Julius Caesar and the comedy
  As You Like it. The melancholic characters of
  these plays were developed and opened the way to
  his Hamlet written a year later. Hamlet
  started the period of great tragedies (1601
  -1606) when Othello(l 604), King Lear(1605),
  Macbeth (1606) were written. The tone of his
  comedies had become much more serious and even
  gloomy sometimes in such plays as Throil and
  Cressinda (1601-1602), All's Well That Ends
  Well (1603), An eye for eye (1604).

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Unexpected leaving for Stratford

• On March 28 1603 Queen Elizabeth I died. The
  English throne was inherited by Jacob I, the son
  of Mary Stuart, the former Scottish Queen
  executed by Elizabeth. The new king signed the
  patent according to which he became the patron of
  Lord Chamberlain's troupe of actors. From then on
  all its members would be called the servants of
  His Majesty The King of England. After 1606 the
  last period of Shakespeare's career started. It
  came to the end in 1613 with his leaving for
  Stratford. In 1607-08 some more historical plays
  Antonius and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Timonus
  Athenian were created. They were followed by
  romantic plays "The Winter Fairy Tale and The
  Storm (1610-12).   The reason for Shakespeare's
  unexpected discontinuance of such a successful
  career was, most likely, an illness. In the March
  of 1616 Shakespeare made and signed his last will
  which subsequently would cause so much
  misunderstanding about his personality,
  authorship and all other staff called now a
  Shakespearian question. Shakespeare is supposed
  to die on his birthday the 23rd of April. Two
  days later he was buried at the Holy Trinity
  Church in the suburb of Stratford, which was
  recorded in its metric book.   During
  Shakespeares life his works werent collected.
  His plays, poems, sonnets were separately
  printed. His plays first appeared as so-called
  piracy editions with a lot of mistakes and
  spoilt texts. As a rule they were followed by the
  later edition prepared and corrected by the
  author. These books were printed in quarto. After
  Shakespeares death his friends actors Heming and
  Condella prepared and published the complete set
  of Shakespeares works including 36 plays called
  the First Folio. 18 of them had never been
  printed before.

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   Shakespearian Question

• Shakespeares last will has always been a source
  of afflictions and doubts for his biographers. It
  writes about houses and property ring as memories
  for friends but it doesnt say a word about his
  books and manuscripts as if Shakespeare was an
  ordinary city-dweller not a famous writer. The
  will became the first occasion to set so-called
  Shakespearian question whether Shakespeare was
  really the author of his works.

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