WORLD HISTORY 1 S PROJECT - Teacher: Ms. Ross -
Feb 09, 2016
WORLD HISTORY 1 S PROJECT- Teacher: Ms. Ross -
William Shakespeare By: Tamara S. Antoine
(April 23rd, 1564-1616)
Who Was He?*An English playwright and poet.
*He was Born at Holy Trinity Church on April 26, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England
*He was the third child of John Shakespeare, a leather merchant, and Mary Arden, a local landed heiress.
*He was considered the greatest dramatist of all time*He wrote plays that captured the complete range of
human emotion and conflict*He was nicknamed “Bard of Avon” and “Swan of
Avon”
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Early Life*William had two older sisters, Joan and Judith, and
three younger brothers, Gilbert, Richard and Edmund. *Before birth, his father became a successful merchant
and held official positions as alderman and bailiff, an office resembling a mayor.
*His fathers fortunes declined sometime in the late 1570s.
*Scholars “think” that he most likely attended the King's New School, in Stratford, which taught reading, writing
and the classics. *
Married Life*He married Anne Hatheway on November 28th, 1582,
in Worcester, in Canterbury Province.*Anne was from Shottery, a small village a mile west
of Stratford*William was 18 and Anne was 26, when they got
married*Their first child was born on May 26, 1583, the
daughter they named Susanna.*Two years later, they had twins on February 2, 1585,
twins named Hamnet and Judith.*Sadly Hamnet died at the age of 11 of an unknown
disease
Williams Work*After 1600, that he wrote the tragedies Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth*Shakespeare's characters showed vivid impressions of human temperament that are timeless and wordly *tThe best known of these plays is Hamlet, which explores betrayal, retribution, incest and moral failure.