Azuhura Msofe
8B
11/4/10
English – Background Info on William Shakespeare
Miss Nickell
Background Information
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William Shakespeare was baptized in 1564, April 26 in a town called Start-UponAvon in Warwickshire, England. (The date of his birth is known.) He is English.
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Son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden.
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Third of eight children. (Three however died in childhood.)
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Married Anne Hathaway on 28 November, 1582.
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Anne Hathaway was either born in 1556 or 1555. She died in 6 August, 1623.
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William Shakespeare was 18 and Anne Hathaway was 26 and pregnant when
they were married.
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Had three kids. Susanna (oldest), Hamnet and Judith (twins).
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Hamnet died during his childhood on 11 August, 1596. He was 11 years old.
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William Shakespeare died in 23 April, 1616 in Start-Upon-Avon.
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William Shakespeare was a poet, playwright and actor. (Pressley, J. M.)
This is John Shakespeares house and is
believe to be William Shakespeare
birthplace. (“William Shakespeare.”)
The grave of William Shakespeare.
On the left is the grave of his wife.
On the right is the grave of Thomas
Nash, first husband of Elizabeth.
The poet’s grand-daughter.
(“William Shakespeare.”)
A reconstructed Globe theatre
which was where William
Shakespeare performed all his
plays; he also built it. It is an
Elizabethan type of theatre.
(“William Shakespeare.”)
Works
Comedies
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All's Well That Ends Well
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As You Like It
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The Comedy of Errors
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Love's Labour's Lost
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Measure for Measure
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The Merchant of Venice
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
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The Taming of the Shrew
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The Tempest
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Twelfth Night
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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The Two Noble Kinsmen
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The Winter's Tale (“William Shakespeare.”)
Histories
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King John
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Richard II
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Henry IV, part 1
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Henry IV, part 2
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Henry V
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Henry VI, part 1
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Henry VI, part 2
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Henry VI, part 3
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Richard III
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Henry VIII (“William Shakespeare.”)
Tragedies
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Romeo and Juliet
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Coriolanus
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Titus Andronicus
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Timon of Athens
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Julius Caesar
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Macbeth
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Hamlet
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Troilus and Cressida
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King Lear
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Othello
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Antony and Cleopatra
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Cymbeline (“William Shakespeare.”)
Poems
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Venus and Adonis
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The Rape of Lucrece
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The Passionate Pilgrim
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The Phoenix and the Turtle
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A Lover's Complaint (“William Shakespeare.”)
Lost Plays
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Love's Labour's Won
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Cardenio (“William Shakespeare.”)
Apocrypha (Plays written in his honor.)
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Arden of Faversham
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The Birth of Merlin
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Locrine
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The London Prodigal
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The Puritan
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The Second Maiden's Tragedy
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Sir John Oldcastle
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Thomas Lord Cromwell
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A Yorkshire Tragedy
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Edward III
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Sir Thomas More (“William Shakespeare.”)
Bibliography
Pressley, J. M. "Shakespeare's Biography." Shakespeare Resource Center. N.p., 8
Jan. 2010. Web. 11 Apr. 2010. <http://www.bardweb.net/man.html >
"William Shakespeare." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation Inc., 8 Apr. 2010. Web.
11 Apr. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare>.
Appendix
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shakespeare_grave_-Stratford-upon-Avon_3June2007.jpg >
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_Shakespeares_birthplace,_Stratford-uponAvon_26l2007.jpg >
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Globe_theatre_london.jpg >