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Shakespeare is the world's most popular author. Shakespeare understood many people, as few authors did. He could see  ( what people are thinking by the way they act.)  Being able to do that, he could make up people and present them from either the past or the future. He makes them struggle just as they would in real life, either successfully or sometimes in a painful and tragic failure.

    He lived almost 400 years ago.  Hundreds of his plays have been published  And  translated in many languages.  Scholars  have written thousands of books and articles about his plots.  He is the most widely quoted author in history, and his plays have been preformed the most.  There is not a simple explanation for Shakespeare's popularity, but he does remain the greatest entertainer and perhaps, our most profound thinker.  He had a remarkable knowledge of human behavior.  He was able to enter fully into the point of view of each of his characters. Although the exact date of Shakespeare's birth is unknown, his baptism, on April 26, 1564, was recorded in the parish register of Holy Trinity church in Stratford-upon-Aaron, Warwickshire.  

William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in half timbered house in Henley street, Start-ford-upon Aron.  His father was John Shakespeare, a glove maker and wool dealer. His mother was Mary Aron, daughter of a farmer from Wilmot.  Young William attend Stratford Grammar school from the age 7 until he was 14.  The grammar school was held on the upper floor of the old Guildhall, and here the classes were held in Latin, concentrating on grammar and the ancient classics of Greece and Rome. Shakespeare was withdrawn from school due to his family's financial difficulties and never completed his education. This makes his subsequent accomplishments all the more remarkable! At 18 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, daughter of a yeoman farmer form Shuttery, close to Stratford.  The marriage may have been forced, as Anne was already 3 months pregnant with a daughter Susanna.

                                                                                                   Plays           

                                            Shakespeare wrote  37 plays 

  • All's well that ends well

  • Antony and Cleopatra

  • As you like it

  • Comedy of the errors, The

  • Coriolanus

  • Cymbeline

  • Hamlet

  • Henry IV, Parts I and II

  • Henry V

  • Henry VI, Parts I, II, and III

  • Taming of the Shrew, The

  • Tempest, The

  • Timon of Athens

  • Titus Andronicus

  • Trolius and Cressida

  • Twelfth night

  • Two gentlemen of Verona,  THe

  • Winters Tale, the

 
  • Henry VII
  • Julius Caesar
  • King John
  • King Lear
  • Love's Labours Lost
  • Macbeth
  • Measure for measure
  • Merchants of Venice, The
  • Merry wives of Windsour, The
  • Midsummer's Night dream, A 
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • Othello
  • Pericles
  • Richard II
  • Richard III
  • Romeo and Juliet
   

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By: Alex  & Kollin