William Shakespeare; Renaissance Man

William Shakespeare was a great play writer. He wrote a lot of plays. He was  born on April 23, 1564.His assumed birth date. His parents were John and Mary Shakespeare.He went to school at Edward VI Grammer school until he was 14 years old. He left school because his parents did not have enough money. When he was eighteen years old he got married to Ann Hathaway. They had three children. Susan, Judith and Hamnet. Click here for more info

                                                                                                           


William Shakespeare’s works can be put into 4 parts



The Classical Plays; his first works were inspired by the classical examples from when he was in grammar school. Plautus and Seneca served as some examples for these kinds of plays.

The History Plays; these kinds of plays were when he took any material he found in certain early chronicle (history plays) and basically made a new genre (kind of reading/literature) called the History Play.

The Narrative Poem and Sonnets; his favorite author Ovid was an example for some of his Sonnets; which were 14-line poems.   Click here to find more Shakespeare sonnets

Experiments in Comedy: One of his experiments in comedy was The Taming of the shrew, Based on an Italian comedy. Two Gentlemen of Verona was an experiment with plot and characters probably both of these belong to this time period.

William was known for the plays he wrote. He wrote the famous play Romeo and Julliet, and also Hamlet. He also was part of a lot of groups.The queens men, Pembroke's men, and Lord Stranges Men. He performed a lot with these groups. He is mostly remembered for his later works. He was known for being a play writer, and for all the varieties of writing and literature.
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