Who was William Shakespeare?
Shakespeare’s Works
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Tragedies
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Romeo and Juliet | Macbeth | King Lear | Hamlet | Othello | Titus Andronicus |
Julius Caesar | Antony and Cleopatra | Coriolanus | Troilus and Cressida |
Timon of Athens
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Comedies
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Histories
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King John | Richard II | Henry IV, Part 1 | Henry IV, Part 2 | Henry V | Henry VI,
part 1 | Henry VI, part 2 | Henry VI, part 3 | Richard III | Henry VIII
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Sonnets |
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Venus and Adonis | The Rape of Lucrece | The Passionate Pilgrim | The
Phoenix and the Turtle | A Lover's Complaint
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A Midsummer Night's Dream | All's Well That Ends Well | As You Like It |
Cymbeline | Love's Labour's Lost | Measure for Measure | The Merchant of
Venice | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Much Ado About Nothing | Pericles,
Prince of Tyre | Taming of the Shrew | The Comedy of Errors | The Tempest |
Twelfth Night, or What You Will | The Two Gentlemen of Verona | The Two Noble
Kinsmen | The Winter’s Tale
William Shakespeare Facts
There are many mysteries that surround
the life of William Shakespeare - some
are based on facts and some are based
on fiction! Some are interesting facts,
some are strange facts and some are
down right weird facts
Shakespeare was interesting! Check out
our Top 10 Facts on Shakespeare
TOP 10 FACTS ABOUT
SHAKESPEARE
Trivia Fact 1 - Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare’s wife) was eight years older
than Shakespeare and three months pregnant when they got married!
Trivia Fact 2 – Many Shakespeare life facts are unknown - these are
referred to as the Lost Years
Trivia Fact 3 - The majority of his plays were only published seven years
after his death!
Trivia Fact 4 - Shakespeare's actual birthday is unknown but April 23rd
has been generally used - stranger still, his actual date of death is also
unknown and this has also been given the date of April 23rd! Fact!
Trivia Fact 5 - We do not really know what Shakespeare looked like! Not
one portrait was painted of Shakespeare while he was still alive!
Trivia Fact 6 - Shakespeare and his company built TWO
Globe Theatres!
Trivia Fact 7 – Shakespeare’s grandchildren all died – he
had no descendents.
Trivia Fact 8 – The only mention that Shakespeare
specifically makes of his wife in his Last Will and
testament was to leave her his "second best bed." (NICE
GUY!)
Trivia Fact 9 - Many eminent Authors and Politicians do
not believe that Shakespeare wrote his plays...What do
you think???
Trivia Fact 10 - Shakespeare's family were all illiterate!
“To be or
not to be”
Famous Quotes
“The
course
of true love
never did run
smooth.”
“O Romeo,
Romeo!
Wherefore art
thou Romeo?”
“Et tu, Brute!”
“Out
damned
spot! Out, I
say.”
What was it like in America during
the time Shakespeare was around?
Why didn’t he use “Plain English?”
• Of course he did! The Elizabethan
language was different than ours!
• There weren’t so many words used in the
Elizabethan period and people used a
whole variety of way to spell them as
dictionaries weren’t available!
• There are at least 16 different Elizabethan
spellings of “Shakespeare!
Shakespeare?
Shakespeare
Shakspeare
Shakespere
Shak-speare
Shakspere
Schaksp
Shakespe
Shake-speare
Shaxberd
Shakespear
Shakspear
Shaksper
Shakespheare
Shakspe